AustLit
Latest Issues
AbstractHistoryArchive Description
'Jewelled Nights (published in 1923) feature[s] a runaway bride who sought her fortune in the osmiridium fields in Tasmania's West, where miners panned and dug the precious metal that tipped gold fountain pens around the world.'
Source: Libraries Tasmania Blog https://archivesandheritageblog.libraries.tas.gov.au/jewelled-nights-the-surprising-story-of-two-tasmanian-women-and-their-lost-silent-film/
Adaptations
-
form
y
Jewelled Nights
( dir. Wilton Welch
et. al. )agent
Australia
:
Louise Lovely Productions
,
1925
Z1720417
1925
single work
film/TV
The central character, Elaine Fleetwood, assumes a masculine role in an attempt to alleviate her family's financial troubles. She disguises herself as a boy and travels to Northern Tasmania to make her fortune on the osmiridium mining fields.
'This big budget production cost in excess of 8000 pounds and had lavish indoor sets as well as being shot on location in Tasmania. The film was not well received and both Louise Lovely and author Marie Bjelke-Peterson abandoned hopes of filming more novels for an Australian film industry producing wholesome family entertainment' (Source: National Film and Sound Archive).
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
-
Marie Bjelke Petersen's Romances : Fulfilling the Contract, Subverting the Spirit
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 70 no. 2 2010; (p. 41-63) 'This article examines Petersen's ulterior agenda in relation to her novels and considers the extent to which her propagandist aims enhanced or subverted the romance genre' (43). -
Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'Virile Story' : Jewelled Nights, Gender Instability and the Bush
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 29 no. 1 2003; (p. 115-131) -
Romanticism and Environmentalism : The Tasmanian Novels of Marie Bjelke-Petersen
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 20 no. 1 2001; (p. 62-75) Examines romanticism and early environmentalism in Bjelke-Petersen's almost forgotten novels about the Tasmanian landscape. Haynes argues that although in one sense Bjelke-Petersen's "Romantic emphasis on possessing, and being possessed by, Nature can be seen as a form of emotional imperialism, her Tasmanian novels provided an important reassessment and a widely publicised step towards the acceptance of wilderness conservation in the state" (74). -
Strange Bedfellows: Homo-Eroticism and Landscape in Two Bush Novels from the 1920s
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Land and Identity : Proceedings of the 1997 Conference Held at The University of New England Armidale New South Wales 27-30 September 1997 1998; (p. 105-109) - y A Mortal Flame : Marie Bjelke Petersen, Australian Romance Writer 1874-1969 Sandy Bay : Blubber Head Press , 1994 Z277085 1994 single work biography
-
Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'Virile Story' : Jewelled Nights, Gender Instability and the Bush
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 29 no. 1 2003; (p. 115-131) -
Marie Bjelke Petersen's Romances : Fulfilling the Contract, Subverting the Spirit
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 70 no. 2 2010; (p. 41-63) 'This article examines Petersen's ulterior agenda in relation to her novels and considers the extent to which her propagandist aims enhanced or subverted the romance genre' (43). -
Strange Bedfellows: Homo-Eroticism and Landscape in Two Bush Novels from the 1920s
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Land and Identity : Proceedings of the 1997 Conference Held at The University of New England Armidale New South Wales 27-30 September 1997 1998; (p. 105-109) - y A Mortal Flame : Marie Bjelke Petersen, Australian Romance Writer 1874-1969 Sandy Bay : Blubber Head Press , 1994 Z277085 1994 single work biography
-
Romanticism and Environmentalism : The Tasmanian Novels of Marie Bjelke-Petersen
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 20 no. 1 2001; (p. 62-75) Examines romanticism and early environmentalism in Bjelke-Petersen's almost forgotten novels about the Tasmanian landscape. Haynes argues that although in one sense Bjelke-Petersen's "Romantic emphasis on possessing, and being possessed by, Nature can be seen as a form of emotional imperialism, her Tasmanian novels provided an important reassessment and a widely publicised step towards the acceptance of wilderness conservation in the state" (74).
- Savage River, Western Tasmania (including the West Coast), Tasmania,
- Tasmania,
- Savage River, Western Tasmania (including the West Coast), Tasmania,