AustLit

Songs, for mezzo-soprano, flute (piccolo and alto flute), clarinet in A, violin, violoncello, piano, and percussion.(Libraries Australia record).

Authors Program Note: Miss Donnithorne is thought to be one of the models for Miss Havisham in Dickens's Great Expectations. Stow comments 'It seems likely that there were at least three models for Miss Havisham of Satis House. One was a woman known to Dickens's friend James Payn. Another was a long remembered London apparition, the White Woman of Berners Street, described in Dickens's sketch "Where We Stopped Growing". And the chiefest of them, we can say from the weight of circumstantial evidence was Miss Eliza Emily Donnithorne of Cambridge Hall, Newtown, New South Wales.' (from the Musica Viva programme for the first performance at the Adelaide Festival of Arts, 9 March 1974).