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Issue Details: First known date: 1919... 1919 Gully Folk
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Notes

  • Saxby states: 'In the guise of a fairy story, this is an attempt to treat the relationship of the white settlers with the aborigines and to deal with the question of racial understanding'. (Source: H. M. Saxby A History of Australian Children's Literature 1841-1941, 1969)

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    y separately published work icon School Paper : Grades V and VI no. 255 December 1919 Z1649899 1919 periodical issue 1919 pg. 153-156
    Note: Extract from Gully Folk: The Teaching of the Black Tribes with four illustrations: 'Betty and Dick', 'Billy Whiskers', 'Wonga and a Brother Gnome', 'A Blackfellows' Corroboree' by Minnie I. Rowe.
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Works about this Work

How Early Australian Fairy Tales Displaced Aboriginal People with Mythical Creatures and Fantasies of Empty Land Michelle Smith , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 6 July 2022;

'Most of us grew up reading fairy tales adapted from the European tradition: stories of kings, queens and princesses set in palaces and forests, such as Cinderella, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast. But what about the history of Australian fairy tales?'(Introduction)
The Return of the Fairy : Australian Medievalist Fantasy for the Young Clare Bradford , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October - November vol. 26 no. 3-4 2011; (p. 115-132)
The Return of the Fairy : Australian Medievalist Fantasy for the Young Clare Bradford , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October - November vol. 26 no. 3-4 2011; (p. 115-132)
How Early Australian Fairy Tales Displaced Aboriginal People with Mythical Creatures and Fantasies of Empty Land Michelle Smith , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 6 July 2022;

'Most of us grew up reading fairy tales adapted from the European tradition: stories of kings, queens and princesses set in palaces and forests, such as Cinderella, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast. But what about the history of Australian fairy tales?'(Introduction)
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