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Issue Details: First known date: 1926... 1926 The Rudd Family
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Thematically connected short stories.

Notes

  • Eric Davis in his introduction to the UQP edition describes the book as a 'collection of sketches written for various journals and publication of the early twenties - the Bulletin, the Woman's Mirror, the Brisbane Courier, etc'.
  • The work contains 'Part One' and 'Part Two'. Ten of the eleven stories which comprise the chapters appearing in 'Part Two' were published in the Brisbane Courier between 14 March and 19 September 1925. (With title: 'Me an' th' Son Again')
  • Richard Fotheringham notes that a play written in 1917 and 'marginally re-written in 1928 with the new title The 'Rudd Family' 'became a major commercial success when staged throughout eastern Australia by William Anderson ...The play's title was intended to suggest strongly that the play was a sequel to 'On Our Selection', although the family in fact are not the Rudds but the Dicksons'. (In Search of Steele Rudd p.137)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Rudd Family 'Steele Rudd' , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1984 Z356703 1984 selected work novel short story humour Omnibus edition of six Rudd works previously republished by University of Queensland Press in the 1960s and 1970s with introductions by Eric Davis. . Illustrations of the original New South Wales Bookstall publications are reproduced. St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1984 pg. 413-587

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Arthur Hoey Davis and Several `Steele Rudds': Imagining the Pseudonymous Author Richard Fotheringham , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 14 no. 3 1990; (p. 297-305)
Fotheringham explores the cultural and private appropriation of the name, "Steele Rudd", and examines the implications for understanding the concept of authorship in relation to interpretations of On Our Selection in its various forms.
Another Rudd Story 1926 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Territory Times and Gazette , 13 August 1926; (p. 2)

— Review of The Rudd Family 'Steele Rudd' , 1926 selected work short story
Another Rudd Story 1926 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Territory Times and Gazette , 13 August 1926; (p. 2)

— Review of The Rudd Family 'Steele Rudd' , 1926 selected work short story
Arthur Hoey Davis and Several `Steele Rudds': Imagining the Pseudonymous Author Richard Fotheringham , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 14 no. 3 1990; (p. 297-305)
Fotheringham explores the cultural and private appropriation of the name, "Steele Rudd", and examines the implications for understanding the concept of authorship in relation to interpretations of On Our Selection in its various forms.
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