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Part two of Roland's autobiography.
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Dedication: For Gilda
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also braille and sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Storytelling Permutations in the Performance of Life Narrative Betty Roland’s Caviar for Breakfast
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 6 no. 1 2013;Betty Roland (1903-1996), a little-known figure in Australian literary circles, was a prolific storyteller. Whilst there are few zones of literature into which she did not venture between the late 1920s and 1990, Roland is perhaps best remembered as a dramatist. Her Australian outback melodrama, The Touch of Silk, was first performed by the Melbourne Repertory Company in 1928, and is still produced today. Reviewers of the time described the play as ‘a beautiful and abiding piece’ of theatre, and named Roland as Australia’s first genuine playwright. Silk’s bleak twists and far-reaching insights into authoritarian bourgeois morality, helped to make it the first among a number of successful radio serials for Roland and paved the way for later film scripts. Perhaps because she was a playwright rather than a novelist at the time, Roland has never been grouped with Australia’s celebrated women writers of the 1920s and 30s, such as Miles Franklin, Eleanor Dark and Katharine Susannah Prichard. Roland was, however, engaged in a burgeoning cosmopolitan print-culture that extended well beyond those years as well as Australian borders. (Author's introduction)
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An Interview with Betty Roland
Nicole Moore
(interviewer),
2007
single work
interview
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 67 no. 1-2 2007; (p. 362-376) -
Three Women
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , July-August vol. 34 no. 7-8 1990; (p. 64-68)
— Review of The Road from Coorain 1989 single work autobiography ; An Improbable Life 1989 single work autobiography -
A Devious Tale Told
1990
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24 November 1990; (p. 82) -
Burden of Wild Will and of Pain
1990
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Herald , 28 October 1990; (p. 34)
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Betty's Romp with Sex and Politics
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , September vol. 1 no. 1 1989; (p. 28-30)
— Review of An Improbable Life 1989 single work autobiography ; Caviar for Breakfast 1979 single work autobiography -
-exy New -riting
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Independent Monthly , August 1989; (p. 37)
— Review of Working Hot : A Novel 1989 single work novel ; Women's Erotica : Erotica by Contemporary Australian Women 1988 anthology short story poetry ; Between Careers 1989 single work novel ; An Improbable Life 1989 single work autobiography -
Three Women
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , July-August vol. 34 no. 7-8 1990; (p. 64-68)
— Review of The Road from Coorain 1989 single work autobiography ; An Improbable Life 1989 single work autobiography -
Wilful and Wide-Eyed in Bohemia
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 10 June 1989; (p. 9)
— Review of An Improbable Life 1989 single work autobiography -
Yes, We Do Have a Style
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 20-21 May 1989; (p. 10)
— Review of An Improbable Life 1989 single work autobiography -
An Interview with Betty Roland
Nicole Moore
(interviewer),
2007
single work
interview
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 67 no. 1-2 2007; (p. 362-376) -
Betty Roland : Life Enhancer
1989
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 29-30 April 1989; (p. 5) -
Burden of Wild Will and of Pain
1990
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Herald , 28 October 1990; (p. 34) -
A Devious Tale Told
1990
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24 November 1990; (p. 82) -
Storytelling Permutations in the Performance of Life Narrative Betty Roland’s Caviar for Breakfast
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 6 no. 1 2013;Betty Roland (1903-1996), a little-known figure in Australian literary circles, was a prolific storyteller. Whilst there are few zones of literature into which she did not venture between the late 1920s and 1990, Roland is perhaps best remembered as a dramatist. Her Australian outback melodrama, The Touch of Silk, was first performed by the Melbourne Repertory Company in 1928, and is still produced today. Reviewers of the time described the play as ‘a beautiful and abiding piece’ of theatre, and named Roland as Australia’s first genuine playwright. Silk’s bleak twists and far-reaching insights into authoritarian bourgeois morality, helped to make it the first among a number of successful radio serials for Roland and paved the way for later film scripts. Perhaps because she was a playwright rather than a novelist at the time, Roland has never been grouped with Australia’s celebrated women writers of the 1920s and 30s, such as Miles Franklin, Eleanor Dark and Katharine Susannah Prichard. Roland was, however, engaged in a burgeoning cosmopolitan print-culture that extended well beyond those years as well as Australian borders. (Author's introduction)
- The Touch of Silk 1928 single work drama
- Lakes Entrance, Lakes Entrance area, East Gippsland, Gippsland, Victoria,
- East Gippsland, Gippsland, Victoria,
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- 1920s
- 1930s