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- Tremendous Worlds : Australian Women's Drama 1890-1960 : Introduction, single work criticism (p. v-xxvi)
- The Apple, single work drama (p. 1-28)
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Morning Sacrifice,
single work
drama
(p. 29-108)
'Set in the staff room of an all-girl school, 'Morning Sacrifice' interrogates the stifling sexual morality of post-War Australia. The all female cast are divided by the conflict between a waning Victorian sensibility and the sexual freedom of the coming age.
'The play is a powerful critique of how women’s sexuality was controlled by law, and hostility between women formed a barrier to emancipation.'
(Source: publisher's blurb)
- Forward One, single work drama (p. 109-124)
- No Family, single work drama (p. 125-142)
- Here Under Heaven, single work drama (p. 143-208)
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Flood,
single work
drama
(p. 209-272)
A family is trapped by rising flood waters.
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Jane, My Love,
single work
drama
(p. 273-358)
The main theme of the play is the clash between Jane Franklin, a woman of outstanding character and advanced ideas, and the Colonial Secretary, John Montague, leader of the autocratic officials.
Deals with the clashes between Sir John Franklin and the remnants of the 'Arthur Faction', principally the Colonial Secretary and the Chief Police Magistrate. Franklin's position is made the worse by a well-meaning but thoughtless Private Secretary....The Colonial Secretary is upheld and Franklin is disgraced and recalled, but his influence, in the form of the work he has done and the work of his wife, 'Jane, My Love', for the Colony, compensate for his official humiliation. Lady Jane Franklin is the dominating character who by her charm, poise, intellect and vision of the future commands respect, attention and affection. (The Campbell Howard Annotated Index of Australian Plays 1920-1955 (1993) edited by Jack Bedson and Julian Croft (1993):341)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Marriage 'Among the Murkans'
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , December vol. 26 no. 70 2011; (p. 469-483) 'Stella Miles Franklin (1879-1954) is best known for contributions to a uniquely Australian literary tradition. However, during her American years (1906-1915) when she worked in Chicago with the National Women's Trade Union League, Franklin wrote much unpublished fiction in the New Woman literary genre common to early-twentieth-century US women's traditions. This paper focuses on two such little-known unpublished stories: 'Uncle Robert's Wedding Present' (1908) and 'Teaching Him' (1909), discussing ways their entanglements with questions of marriage and economics are grounded in Franklin's work and personal life and in the intellectual influences that shaped her writing.' (p. 469)
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Untitled
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 36 2000; (p. 143-147)
— Review of Tremendous Worlds : Australian Women's Drama 1890-1960 1999 anthology drama ; Playing with Ideas : Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties 1999 selected work criticism -
Twin Volumes
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 221 2000; (p. 21-22)
— Review of Tremendous Worlds : Australian Women's Drama 1890-1960 1999 anthology drama ; Playing with Ideas : Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties 1999 selected work criticism -
Beginning to Bear Fruit
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 158 2000; (p. 124-125)
— Review of Tremendous Worlds : Australian Women's Drama 1890-1960 1999 anthology drama ; Playing with Ideas : Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties 1999 selected work criticism
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Beginning to Bear Fruit
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 158 2000; (p. 124-125)
— Review of Tremendous Worlds : Australian Women's Drama 1890-1960 1999 anthology drama ; Playing with Ideas : Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties 1999 selected work criticism -
Twin Volumes
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 221 2000; (p. 21-22)
— Review of Tremendous Worlds : Australian Women's Drama 1890-1960 1999 anthology drama ; Playing with Ideas : Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties 1999 selected work criticism -
Untitled
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 36 2000; (p. 143-147)
— Review of Tremendous Worlds : Australian Women's Drama 1890-1960 1999 anthology drama ; Playing with Ideas : Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties 1999 selected work criticism -
Marriage 'Among the Murkans'
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , December vol. 26 no. 70 2011; (p. 469-483) 'Stella Miles Franklin (1879-1954) is best known for contributions to a uniquely Australian literary tradition. However, during her American years (1906-1915) when she worked in Chicago with the National Women's Trade Union League, Franklin wrote much unpublished fiction in the New Woman literary genre common to early-twentieth-century US women's traditions. This paper focuses on two such little-known unpublished stories: 'Uncle Robert's Wedding Present' (1908) and 'Teaching Him' (1909), discussing ways their entanglements with questions of marriage and economics are grounded in Franklin's work and personal life and in the intellectual influences that shaped her writing.' (p. 469)
