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Valeria Correll Valeria Correll i(A32191 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Gay Gambols : A Nonsense Story Valeria Correll , Melbourne : E. A. Vidler , 1923 Z1561579 1923 single work children's fiction children's fantasy Patsy is playing in the garden when she disobeys her mother's order not to go beyond the gate. She follows her shadow, and ends up in a tea-tree glade, where she hears the magical voices of flowers and animals, including her dog, Micky. She gets caught in a spider's web. Her flower friends call the South Wind, who blows the web away, allowing her to run home to her mother who declares her fantastical tale to be 'utter nonsense'.
1 The Star of the Night Valeria Correll , 1919 single work short story
— Appears in: The Lone Hand , 25 October vol. 9 no. 10 1919; (p. 26-27)
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