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Meet Edith Campbell Berry, the woman all Australian women would like to be. On a train from Paris…
Frank Moorhouse was born in the coastal town of Nowra, NSW. He worked as an editor of small-town newspapers and as an administrator and in the 1970s became a full-time writer. He has written fiction, non-fiction, screenplays and essays and edited …
View Books by Frank MoorhouseSome relevant facts about Grace Malloy. Apart from being named after a 100 000-year-old skeleton, …
Teacher Resource EssayRobert Drewe is the author of seven novels, four books of short stories, two memoirs, six other works of non-fiction and two plays. His work has been widely translated, and adapted for film, television, theatre and radio. In his mid-20s, and …
View Books by Robert DreweMaya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl from the West, comes to live in Melbourne and starts…
Joan London is the author of two prize-winning collections of stories, Sister Ships, which won the Age Book of the Year in 1986, and Letter to Constantine, which won the Steele Rudd Award in 1994 and the Premier's Award for Fiction. These collections…
View Books by Joan London'He had never got within measurable distance of what he called life, at all . . . deep down in him, …
Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson was born into an affluent Melbourne family in 1870. Her father Walter was a doctor of medicine. When Richardson was nine, her father died of syphilis after being admitted to Melbourne’s Kew mental asylum. His …
View Books by Henry Handel RichardsonThe classic novel of convict Australia, For the Term of His Natural Life is a novel of tremendous …
Teacher Resource EssayMarcus Clarke is best known for his classic novel of the convict system, For the Term of His Natural Life, although he also wrote numerous essays, stories and plays and edited literary journals. Born in London, educated as a gentleman and expected…
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