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Surviving Sydney Cove : The Diary of Elizabeth Harvey, Sydney, 1790
single work
children's
historical fiction
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2000
Surviving Sydney Cove : The Diary of Elizabeth Harvey, Sydney, 1790
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Lizzie Harvey, a convict transported to Sydney Cove, is starving and overworked. She can barely find time to dream about the way things used to be, let alone write in her diary. But write she must. It is her only hope of reaching out to the home she has left behind, all those thousands of miles away across the sea.
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- Dyslexic edition.
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Re-Visiting Historical Fiction for Young Readers : The Past through Modern Eyes
New York (City)
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Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
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2011
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'This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to interpret the past in historical fiction for children and young adults. Looking at literature published within the last thirty to forty years, Wilson identifies and explores a prevalent trend for re-visioning and rewriting the past according to modern social and political ideological assumptions. Fiction within this genre, while concerned with the past at the level of content, is additionally concerned with present views of that historical past because of the future to which it is moving. Specific areas of discussion include the identification of a new sub-genre: Living history fiction, stories of Joan of Arc, historical fiction featuring agentic females, the very popular Scholastic Press historical journal series, fictions of war, and historical fiction featuring multicultural discourses.
Wilson observes specific traits in historical fiction written for children — most notably how the notion of positive progress into the future is nuanced differently in this literature in which the concept of progress from the past is inextricably linked to the protagonist's potential for agency and the realization of subjectivity. The genre consistently manifests a concern with identity construction that in turn informs and influences how a metanarrative of positive progress is played out. This book engages in a discussion of the functionality of the past within the genre and offers an interpretative frame for the sifting out of the present from the past in historical fiction for young readers.' (Publisher's blurb)
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2007
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2002
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— Appears in: Classroom , vol. 22 no. 6 2002; (p. 38-39)
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Untitled
2001
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review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 45 no. 1 2001; (p. 25)
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2000
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— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 15 no. 4 2000; (p. 34-35)
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Untitled
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 9 no. 1 2001; (p. 44)
— Review of Surviving Sydney Cove : The Diary of Elizabeth Harvey, Sydney, 1790 2000 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 15 no. 1 2001; (p. 24)
— Review of Surviving Sydney Cove : The Diary of Elizabeth Harvey, Sydney, 1790 2000 single work children's fiction -
Are They Telling Us the Truth? : Constructing National Character in the Scholastic Press Historical Journal Series
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature Association Quarterly , July vol. 32 no. 2 2007; (p. 129-141) -
Fictionalising History for Young Readers
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Childrens' Book Council of Australia , August vol. 55 no. 3 2011; (p. 15-16) -
Fictionalising History for Young Readers
2001
single work
column
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 9 no. 3 2001; (p. 20-21) -
The My Story Series - Accessible History
2002
single work
column
— Appears in: Classroom , vol. 22 no. 6 2002; (p. 38-39) -
A Writer's Personal Journey
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: Lu Rees Archives Notes, Books and Authors , no. 35 2013; (p. 7-9)
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Settings:
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1750
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