Recently added articles from The La Trobe Journal:
Editorial.(Victorian writers)(Editorial)
May 01, 2009; Arnold, John ... THIS ISSUE of the La Trobe Journal focuses on Victorian writers (in the geographic sense) and opens with 'Sweet Yarra, Run Softly' by poet and critic, Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Some forty-six years ago, Wallace-Crabbe wrote an off-quoted essay entitled 'Melbourne in 1963' and in 'Sweet Yarra, ...
Sweet Yarra, Run Softly.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2009; Wallace-Crabbe, Chris ... 'To join the public, it is not necessary for a man to go to some particular spot; he can sit at home, open a newspaper or turn on his TV set' W. H. AUDEN WROTE this, indirectly deploring the disappearance of particular, hallowed, lived-in public spaces, forty-seven years ago ....
Crime and architecture: designing a Centre for Australian Crime Fiction.(Viewpoint essay)
May 01, 2009; Groves, Derham ... Introduction AS BOTH an architect and a crime fiction fan, I am always seeking links between these two areas. On the face of it, architecture and crime fiction appear to be totally unrelated, however, they have a number of things in common, including an interest in 'place: ...
Three neglected women writers of the 1930s: Jean Campbell, 'Capel Boake', and 'Georgia Rivers'.
May 01, 2009; De Lacy, Gavin ... I IN HER introduction to the Virago Press's 1986 reprint of Doris KerFs Painted Clay (1917), published under the pen-name 'Capel Boake; Christine Downer wrote: 'Boake is one of those women writers forgotten by the compilers of Australian literary histories'. (1) Two other ...
Joan Lindsay: a time for everything.(Biography)
May 01, 2009; O'Neill, Terence ... 'WHETHER Picnic at Hanging Rock is Fact or Fiction, my readers must decide for themselves.' Thus does Joan Lindsay gently tease her readers in an introductory statement to the novel. Unfortunately, many become so obsessed with this question that they scarcely notice that the author ...
Remembering the Palmers.(Vance and Nettie Palmer)(In memoriam)
May 01, 2009; Barnes, John ... IN MY youth Vance and Nettie Palmer seemed to me to have an almost totemic significance in Australian literary life. I could hardly believe my good fortune in getting to know them and to have their friendship at a time when my only claim to be noticed was that I was full of enthusiasm (not ...
'A fine ruddy mess': the publication of Nettie Palmer's Fourteen Years.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2009; Lucas, Robin ... TOWARDS the end of 1948, Melbourne's Meanjin Press published Nettie Palmer's Fourteen Years: extracts from a private journal. Despite the subtitle, the book was not simply lifted from an existing journal, but compiled from a miscellany of sources: work diaries, notebooks, letters, articles ...
Moods of love and commitment: Laurence Collinson in Melbourne.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2009; Willett, Graham ... WHEN PEOPLE hear about Laurie Collinson moving from Brisbane to Melbourne in 1950, they usually nod understandingly. Sydneysiders, it is true, may express surprise, but Melburnians and Brisbanites rarely do. Well, he would, wouldn't he'? they seem to think. For a young man of 24, a poet, ...
Unique copy or Clandestine edition?: the 'Fraser' copy of Frank Hardy's Power without Glory.(John Fraser)(Critical essay)
May 01, 2009; Cowley, Des ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ' ... no recognized publisher would touch the job with a forty-foot pole' (Frank Hardy) IN JANUARY 2005, the State Library of Victoria was the recipient of a generous donation of a most unusual copy of Frank Hardy's classic Australian novel ...
Sunshine and shambles: the Peter Mathers papers.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2009; Pierce, Peter ... ON 13 APRIL 1967, Peter Mathers, who had been living and working in London since 1964, received the following telegram from Sydney: 'Will be announcing next Tuesday your novel wins one thousand dollars Miles Franklin Literary Award Stop Official presentation to author or nominee required ...
A letter of introduction 'for Mr Andrew M McCrae and his four sons'.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2009; Trumble, Angus ... ANYONE WHO is interested in the history of Victoria must be indebted to Brenda Niall, whose magisterial biography of Georgiana Huntly McCrae does so much to illuminate the close-knit society of early Melbourne, and, incidentally, repair the damage done to the published version of her dairy ...
Theatre in the Neild scrapbooks.(James Edward Neild)(Critical essay)
May 01, 2009; Colligan, Mimi ... JAMES EDWARD NEILD was one of Victoria's most interesting and versatile 19th century public figures. As well as being a busy medical practitioner and sometime coroner, he was also an ardent theatregoer and journalist. He combined the latter interests as Melbourne's foremost theatre critic ...
