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Gwenda Beed Davey Gwenda Beed Davey i(A3670 works by) (birth name: Gwenda Dorothy Beed) (a.k.a. Gwenda Davey)
Born: Established: 1932 Sans Souci, Monterey - Sans Souci area, Rockdale - Kogarah area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Lollies or Lolita : The Perils of Modern Childhood Research Gwenda Beed Davey , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , November vol. 19 no. 2 2008; (p. 7-10) Research into children's playground culture and an update on the research project; Childhood, Tradition and Change: A National Study of the Historical and Contemporary Practices and Significance of Australian Children's Playlore.
1 Umbrella Feet Gwenda Beed Davey , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , September vol. 16 no. 12 2006; (p. 19-21) Gwenda Davey discusses current research in to Australian children's playground rhymes and games including a significant project entitled Childhood, Tradition and Change: A National Study of the Historical and Contemporary Practices and Significance of Australian Children's Playlore designed to update data collected by the American folklorist Dr Dorothy Howard who reasearched Australian children's playground lore in 1954-55.
1 y separately published work icon Tradition Bearers Oral History Project Graham Dodsworth (interviewer), Gwenda Beed Davey (interviewer), Gordon Dowell (interviewer), 2003 Z1613478 2003 single work interview
1 Legal Deposit, Social History and Australian Crime Fiction Gwenda Beed Davey , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , September vol. 13 no. 12 2003; (p. 7-9)
1 1 y separately published work icon A Guide to Australian Folklore: From Ned Kelly to Aeroplane Jelly Graham Seal , Gwenda Beed Davey , East Roseville : Kangaroo Press , 2003 Z1043949 2003 reference (taught in 1 units)
1 Prins Joris Was a Gentleman : Multicultural Folklore for Children Gwenda Beed Davey , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , February vol. 13 no. 5 2003; (p. 17-20) Children's folklore in the National Library of Australia's Australian Children's Folklore Collection
1 y separately published work icon June Factor Interviewed by Gwenda Davey Gwenda Beed Davey (interviewer), Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2001-2002 18390611 2001 single work interview

 'Factor speaks of her Jewish family arriving in Australia from Poland at the age of 2 fleeing Nazi Germany; how her mother arrived on Black Friday, 1939 amidst devastating bushfires; her family background; Max Factor, the cosmetics manufacturer; settling Carlton, Vic. ; Australian culture of the 1930s; her first memories of Australia; Jewish social life in Victoria including the Peretz School, which taught Yiddish; the difficulties of learning Hebrew; her foster sister, Jacqueline; her attendance at a selective university high school from 1951-1954; how she began writing at school; receiving a government scholarship; her increasing political activism and joining the Kadimah Youth Group from which she learnt many folk songs; her studies in English and History.' (Trove)
1 The Myths We Live By Gwenda Beed Davey , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , December vol. 9 no. 3 1998; (p. 19-21)
1 International Images of Australia : The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife Gwenda Beed Davey , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia in the World : Perceptions and Possibilities 1994; (p. 195-197)
1 Tradition, Tourism... and Tolerance Gwenda Beed Davey , 1994 single work biography
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , June vol. 4 no. 9 1994; (p. 16-18)
1 8 y separately published work icon The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore Gwenda Beed Davey (editor), Graham Seal (editor), South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1993 Z128577 1993 reference criticism bibliography (taught in 1 units)
1 2 y separately published work icon Jack and Jill : A Book of Nursery Rhymes Gwenda Beed Davey , Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1992 Z849177 1992 anthology poetry children's
1 1 y separately published work icon Duck Under the Table! : More Scenes from Family Life Gwenda Beed Davey , Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1991 Z849075 1991 anthology poetry prose children's humour
1 1 y separately published work icon The Great Australian Pumpkin Gwenda Beed Davey , Ronald George Edwards (illustrator), Knoxfield : Houghton Mifflin Australia , 1991 Z847091 1991 single work picture book children's humour
1 2 y separately published work icon Snug as a Bug! : Scenes from Family Life Gwenda Beed Davey , Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1990 Z846859 1990 anthology poetry children's humour
1 y separately published work icon Folklore and the Enculturation of Young Immigrant Children in Melbourne Gwenda Beed Davey , 1982 Z1033906 1982 single work thesis "Folklore is argued to be of significance to immigrant integration in Australia; and decoding Anglo-Australian folklore is a complex task for the immigrant, The data collected represents the first substantial collection of immigrant children's folklore in Australia"-- Abstract by Stella Lees in the bibliography Research in Children's Literature in Australia [Part 1].
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