Authors, editors, publishers: Katharine Susannah Prichard and W.W. Norton.(William Warder Norton)(Viewpoint essay)

From: Australian Literary Studies | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: Hetherington, Carol | Copyright information

The pivotal role of England in Australian literary production in the nineteenth and early twentieth century has been thoroughly documented by literary historians and bibliographers. Richard Nile and David Walker, Stephen Alomes, and Roslyn Russell have described the 'centrality' of England, and London in particular, for colonial writers, in terms of both commercial realities and cultural links. Classic bibliographies of Australian literature by E. Morris Miller (1945) and H.M. Gree...