Because of their textual brevity, poems and short stories can be written (and sometimes published) closer in time to the events which prompted them than…
In one sense, the short story is not at all a neglected genre in Australia. Since the 1890s at least (and throughout the nineteenth century…
H.M. Green's A History of Australian Literature, first published in 1961, is irreplaceable As the first comprehensive account of our literature 'pure and applied'…
The book divided into three parts, pivots on two autobiographical pieces, 'My 1930's' and 'Melbourne in 1963'. It ends with an essay called 'The Spells…
The recent publication of the above books, together with the section devoted to Catherine Spence in John Barnes's Henry Kingsley and Colonial Fiction (Melbourne 1971…