Autobiographical writing

Barry Oakley's name has become associated in Melbourne during the late '60's and early 70's with the new playwrights, David Williamson, John Romeril, Jack Hibberd…

Dobson recalls her friendship with Francis Webb.

Analyses the identity dilemmas in Sykes’s polemical and controversial autobiographical trilogy.

Places My Brilliant Career in the wider context of late nineteenth century Australian writing and literary cultures, examining its position in the Australian literary canon…

What seems to be a particularly recent interest in autobiography and biography, indeed in all forms of what is often referred to as life writing…

This article examines the collaborative writing relationship between author Dymphna Cusask and the autobiographical subject Catherine Elliott-Mackay. It also considers the contribution of Caddie to…

Reconsiders Helen Simpson's 1932 novel Boomerang, focusing on its structure, use of historical sources, character and style.

If a man throws a brick through your window, wrote an English critic some years ago then you are entitled to sally forth and discover…

Discusses the representation of feminist activism in some contemporary women’s autobiographies, focussing on Susan Ryan’s Catching the Waves (1999), Wendy McCarthy’s Don’t Fence Me In…

Using biographical criticism as its methodological starting point, Kinnane’s article discusses Johnston’s way of creating fiction out of personal experience, highlights where he departs from…

A number of authors of war literature were sent a questionnaire by ALS, asking them to write about why they had turned to war…

Writer Carmel Bird shares her recollections of growing up in Tasmania.

Each of these books shares certain preoccupations: Artful Histories and Autographs obviously with the nature and function of autobiography as a genre; all three with…

Brenda Walker's Reading by Moonlight: How Books Saved a Life opens with a seemingly straightforward childhood remembrance of a family friend who lived surrounded by…

When Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career was published in 1901, members of the public, as well as the extended Franklin family, assumed the work to…

In The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony Hal Porter records his own experience as infant, child and adolescent, one of six children of typically…

Argues that Facey’s autobiography shows ‘just how persuasive the art of understatement is … in the writing of this ordinary Australian, addressing the larger issues…

In the Epilogue to Wild Card: An Autobiography 1923-1958 (1990) Dorothy Hewett returns to her 'first house', the house of childhood at Lambton Downs. The…

Examines three Mitchell Libraries manuscripts on the life of Louisa Lawson, one written by herself, and two by her daughter Gertrude, and discusses their role…

Discusses Wandra Koolmatrie's autobiography, My Own Sweet Time (1994), later revealed as a fiction written by Leon Carmen. 'In this paper, I want to map…