Mrs James Greene single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1948... 1948 Mrs James Greene
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    y separately published work icon Indian Tales Ethel Anderson , Sydney : Australasian Publishing Co. , 1948 Z308315 1948 selected work short story Sydney : Australasian Publishing Co. , 1948
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    y separately published work icon The Little Ghosts Ethel Anderson , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1959 Z307914 1959 selected work short story prose 'This collection of Ethel Anderson's Indian stories calls back to life a world that has passed away. Against the richly coloured background of Indian life, ranging in time from the sixteenth century to the last days of British rule, rajahs and camel-drivers, white nabobs and exquisite princesses, gipsies [sic], and English gentlewomen play out their comedies and tragedies. There are scenes so strange and bizarre that they would be incredible of their vividness did not carry its own conviction, and others that live in the memory by their intense and haunting beauty; there are tales of cruelty and passion and of charming light-heartedness. The brilliance of Ethel Anderson's style, with its distinctive blending of wit and poetry, makes her the perfect chronicler of this fascinating world.' (Source: 1959 Angus and Robertson edition) Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1959
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    y separately published work icon The Best of Ethel Anderson Ethel Anderson , John Douglas Pringle , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1973 Z307812 1973 selected work short story autobiography prose poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1973 pg. 49-74
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    y separately published work icon Feeling Restless : Australian Women's Short Stories 1940-1969 C. J. Burns (editor), Marygai McNamara (editor), Sydney : Collins , 1989 Z546060 1989 anthology short story Sydney : Collins , 1989 pg. 9-39
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    y separately published work icon Of Sadhus and Spinners : Australian Encounters with India Bruce Bennett (editor), S. K. Sareen (editor), Susan Cowan (editor), Asha Kanwar (editor), Noida Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2009 Z1615496 2009 anthology short story prose extract 'Despite a shared history of British imperialism, and commonalities like the English language, a democratic polity and a craze for cricket, Australians and Indians know very little about each other of sadhus and spinners attempts to correct this with a range of stories that trace the chequered history of interactions between the two nations from John Langs The Mohammedan mother (1859) to Yasmine Gooneratnes masterpiece (2002), the stories in this anthology bring to the fore a variety of literary responses to Indo-Australian encounters there are stories here of Australian visitors to India and stories about and by Indians-immigrants or temporary visitors-in Australia thoughtful, exploratory and often just wide-eyed in its observation of strange new worlds, the anthology provides insights into an array of fascinating cross-cultural encounters.' (Publication summary) Noida Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2009 pg. 55-81

Works about this Work

Connecting with India Susan Cowan , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Wanderings in India : Australian Perspectives 2012; (p. 138-148)

'Geographical isolation and innate curiosity have long motivated Australians to leave their shores and travel far and wide to broaden their horizons and experience cultural and social differences with countries established long before explorers began to map Australia. As well as responding to the touristic impulse, there is also the patriotic one of planting Australia’s name abroad, particularly in times of war. This essay looks at the writings of some of the travellers who converged on India, long before the hippy trail of the 1970s, through a historical lens, and compares these writings with a sample of those written later in the 20th century and the shifts in their perceptions and social and cultural awareness which evolved in modern times. India, which had long been purely a brief stopover on the P&O route for Australians, became a desirable place in its own right in the late 20th century, a mysterious subcontinent that signified high adventure and the exoticism of the other.' (Introduction)

A Raj Connection : Anglo-Indian Fiction in Australia Ralph Crane , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 370-380)
The essay focuses on the fiction that links India and Australia in the writing of the Indian diaspora in Australia, and Australian writing about India.
Glimpses of India -- A Military Dekko Susan Cowan , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Explorations in Australian Literature 2006; (p. 42-50)
Susan Cowan addresses the work of three Australian writers 'who converged on India where they lived and wrote long before the hippy trial of the 70s'. Cowan chooses to focus on the 'military angle' due to her 'personal exposure to the military environment'.
The Anglo-Indian (Raj) Diaspora in Australasia Ralph J. Crane , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Diaspora : The Australasian Experience 2005; (p. 177-187)
The term 'Anglo-Indian (Raj)' is used to identify the white colonial population of India rather than the 'mixed-race' community to whom the term is now most usually applied. Crane describes how links between Australia and India were already established by the early nineteenth century. He then goes on to compare two pieces of 'mutiny literature' - the short story 'Mrs James Greene', from Ethel Anderson's Indian Tales (1948), and Sir Gilbert Leigh or Pages from the History of an Eventful Life, a little known novel by New Zealand writer W. L. Rees.
Glimpses of India -- A Military Dekko Susan Cowan , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Explorations in Australian Literature 2006; (p. 42-50)
Susan Cowan addresses the work of three Australian writers 'who converged on India where they lived and wrote long before the hippy trial of the 70s'. Cowan chooses to focus on the 'military angle' due to her 'personal exposure to the military environment'.
The Anglo-Indian (Raj) Diaspora in Australasia Ralph J. Crane , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Diaspora : The Australasian Experience 2005; (p. 177-187)
The term 'Anglo-Indian (Raj)' is used to identify the white colonial population of India rather than the 'mixed-race' community to whom the term is now most usually applied. Crane describes how links between Australia and India were already established by the early nineteenth century. He then goes on to compare two pieces of 'mutiny literature' - the short story 'Mrs James Greene', from Ethel Anderson's Indian Tales (1948), and Sir Gilbert Leigh or Pages from the History of an Eventful Life, a little known novel by New Zealand writer W. L. Rees.
A Raj Connection : Anglo-Indian Fiction in Australia Ralph Crane , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 370-380)
The essay focuses on the fiction that links India and Australia in the writing of the Indian diaspora in Australia, and Australian writing about India.
Connecting with India Susan Cowan , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Wanderings in India : Australian Perspectives 2012; (p. 138-148)

'Geographical isolation and innate curiosity have long motivated Australians to leave their shores and travel far and wide to broaden their horizons and experience cultural and social differences with countries established long before explorers began to map Australia. As well as responding to the touristic impulse, there is also the patriotic one of planting Australia’s name abroad, particularly in times of war. This essay looks at the writings of some of the travellers who converged on India, long before the hippy trail of the 1970s, through a historical lens, and compares these writings with a sample of those written later in the 20th century and the shifts in their perceptions and social and cultural awareness which evolved in modern times. India, which had long been purely a brief stopover on the P&O route for Australians, became a desirable place in its own right in the late 20th century, a mysterious subcontinent that signified high adventure and the exoticism of the other.' (Introduction)

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