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The novel begins:
'BUNDARRA is a small township ''out West/' as they say in Australia. It stands on the edge of the great Wagra Plain—that vast tract which in good seasons gives pleasant pastures to innumerable flocks and herds, but which in time of drought becomes barren, waterless desert, spelling ruin to the unfortunate squatter...'
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Works about this Work
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'By Mrs Campbell Praed': Author and Text
1998
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin , Second Quarter vol. 22 no. 2 1998; (p. 67-80) -
Rosa Praed's Colonial Heroines
1981
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 10 no. 1 1981; (p. 48-56) Who Is She? 1983; (p. 26-36) Sharkey argues that romance enabled Praed to present the colonial experience from a metropolitan point of view and intelligibly relate the circumstances of women in fronteir society to a European audience. This is achieved by employing a love-theory that declares, in Platonic terms, that for each person there is one who is their perfect match.
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'By Mrs Campbell Praed': Author and Text
1998
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin , Second Quarter vol. 22 no. 2 1998; (p. 67-80) -
Rosa Praed's Colonial Heroines
1981
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 10 no. 1 1981; (p. 48-56) Who Is She? 1983; (p. 26-36) Sharkey argues that romance enabled Praed to present the colonial experience from a metropolitan point of view and intelligibly relate the circumstances of women in fronteir society to a European audience. This is achieved by employing a love-theory that declares, in Platonic terms, that for each person there is one who is their perfect match.
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cAustralia,c
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London,
cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
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