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Articles
- Interview with Christina Stead
Stead discusses her career, relationship to Australia and approach to writing among other topics.
1 October 1980 - [Keeping Up Appearances]
You could tell them by signs that were plain; by the ink-stains; by the bits of mortar or plaster on their hats and clothes; by…
1 October 1982 - Review of The Sea Coast of Bohemia: Literary Life in Sydney's Roaring Twenties by Peter Kirkpatrick
One of many anecdotes in The Sea Coast of Bohemia is Jack Lindsay's account of 'the party to end all parties', the true parable of…
1 October 1993 - Adam McCay and Sydney’s Literary Bohemia (1911-1947)
In the family he was known as Uncle Dum. Wicked Uncle Dum, my mother used to say, in the tones of gleeful mock horror she…
1 October 1984 - Review of Australia's Writers by Graeme Kinross Smith, and Twentieth Century Sydney: Studies in Urban & Social History, ed. Jill Roe
The epigraph to Australia's Writers is a quotation from Louis Esson ("Better bread and cheese and an idea than fortune and champagne and no idea")…
1 May 1982 - Joe Lynch, Bohemian Hero of Five Bells
Prominent among the wilder bohemians of Sydney in the 1920s was Joseph Lynch, a gifted black-and-white artist originally from New Zealand. Jack Lindsay placed him…
1 May 1988 - An Uncollected Poem by Kenneth Slessor
In his early years as a journalist Kenneth Slessor often played the role of court poet for his employers, producing light verse to order for…
1 May 1992 - Review of The Stenhouse Circle: Literary Life in Mid-Nineteenth Century Sydney by Ann-Mari Jordens
Some readers may find that this carefully researched volume confirms views they already hold; others may find it provocative, challenging them by the information it…
1 May 1980 - The Historical Source for Ada Cambridge’s ‘The Camp’
It is still commonly assumed that Ada Cambridge's descriptions of 'the Camp' in Thirty Years in Australia, A Marked Man and Fidelis refer to…
1 May 1989 - The Suburban Problem of Evil
Our first scene is a Western Sydney suburban lounge-room seventeen years ago. It is very clean and tidy and full of shelves and little tables…
1 November 1998 - ‘No light, no land or sea’: Urban alienation in Elizabeth Harrower’s Down in the City.
Elizabeth Harrower’s first novel, Down in the City (1957), introduces concerns that define her oeuvre, offering a typically adroit depiction of destructive domestic relations and…
16 November 2016 - The Tank Stream Press: Urban Modernity and Cultural Life in Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney
In Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934), Christina Stead evokes the city’s history in her naming of the Tank Stream Press, the novel’s central location…
7 December 2016 - Visions of Western Sydney in Howard’s Australia: Luke Carman’s An Elegant Young Man, Peter Polites’s Down the Hume and Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s The Lebs
Once overlooked in Australian literature, recent writing from Western Sydney is now among the field’s most dynamic and vital. Over the past two decades, Western…
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Contributors
- Barry Geoffrey Andrews
- Meg Brayshaw
- Meg Brayshaw
- Matilda Grogan Lucas
- Cecil Hadgraft
- Peter Kirkpatrick
- Peter Kirkpatrick
- Henry Lawson
- Jennifer Maiden
- Penelope Nelson
- Christina Stead
- Ken A. Stewart
- Rodney Wetherell
- Louise Wakeling