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'Weekly, nicknamed The Newspaper, cleans the houses on Claremont Street, spreading the neighbourhood gossip as she works. No one knows or cares where Weekly goes in her spare time, or what she dreams of at night – no one, that is, until Nastasya discovers her secret.' (Publication summary)
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Elizabeth Jolley : A Cross-Cultural Life in Writing
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , vol. 2 no. 2010;'Elizabeth Jolley is one of Australia's most significant writers: she published some two dozen books of fiction, essays and radio dramas, won every major Australian literary award, received four honorary doctorates, was awarded the Order of Australia for service to Australian Literature in 1988, and was named an Australian 'National Living Treasure' in 1997.
Her career has its roots in the UK, the place of her birth, schooling and early marriage. In 1959 she travelled with her three children and her husband to Perth, Western Australia, where Leonard Jolley took up a position as foundation Librarian of the University of Western Australia. She brought with her a trunk full of unpublished/rejected manuscripts which provided the initial materials from which she developed her published fictions and essays in Australia.
This article explores the institutional frameworks in Australia which enabled Jolley - a constant writer from childhood - to develop, in David Carter's phrase, 'a career in writing' from the mid-1970s onwards. It argues that Jolley rewrote her foundation manuscripts (written in another country) both to imagine Australian lives and to conform to Australian publishers' requirements. In doing so, it traces how the fiction and essays translate the experience of migration/exile, often thematised through the recurrent image of being 'on the edge,' into the particular and powerful ethic of love that informs Jolley's writing.' (Author's abstract)
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'The Art of Gain': Usury and Substance in Elizabeth Jolley's The Newspaper of Claremont Street
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 22 no. 1 2008; (p. 65-70) Patrick West argues: 'The primary effect of Elizabeth Jolley's novel The Newspaper of Claremont Street is a denial of any lasting Aboriginal presence on Australian land. It produces this effect by "filling the space" of potential Aboriginality with a universalized presentation of the archaic, European, economic antagonism between usury and substance.... the most objectionable thing about The Newspaper of Claremont Street is that its fundamental preoccupation is elevated into myth, making of the complete novel a powerful instrument of white colonization.' (p.65) -
Babies Eat Their Lace : Elizabeth Jolley and the Slaughter of Decorum
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: After Electra : Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction 2002; (p. 118-136, notes 194-195) - y Reading and Writing Elizabeth Jolley : Contemporary Approaches Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1995 Z126211 1995 single work criticism Written to assist Senior High School students understand the writings of Elizabeth Jolley by applying critical reading and theory practices.
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Contingency or Remedy? That Little Herb of Self-Heal
1995
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Proceedings : Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Sixteenth Annual Conference, 3-8 July 1994 1995; (p. 28-34)
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The Newspaper of Claremont Street
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Centre Broadsheet , January - February vol. 1 no. 1 1982; (p. 2)
— Review of The Newspaper of Claremont Street : A Novel 1981 single work novel -
[Review] The Newspaper of Claremont Street : A Novel
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 40 1982; (p. 29-30)
— Review of The Newspaper of Claremont Street : A Novel 1981 single work novel -
[Reviews}
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , September vol. 27 no. 3 1982; (p. 67-70)
— Review of The Newspaper of Claremont Street : A Novel 1981 single work novel ; Double Exposure and Other Stories 1981 selected work short story -
Australian Cartography
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , December no. 2 1982; (p. 5-10)
— Review of The Newspaper of Claremont Street : A Novel 1981 single work novel ; Hunting the Wild Pineapple and Other Related Stories 1979 selected work short story ; Approaches : Short Stories 1981 selected work short story -
Constant Reminders of Ugliness
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: The National Times , 17-23 Janaury 1982;
— Review of The Newspaper of Claremont Street : A Novel 1981 single work novel -
Babies Eat Their Lace : Elizabeth Jolley and the Slaughter of Decorum
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: After Electra : Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction 2002; (p. 118-136, notes 194-195) -
'The Art of Gain': Usury and Substance in Elizabeth Jolley's The Newspaper of Claremont Street
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 22 no. 1 2008; (p. 65-70) Patrick West argues: 'The primary effect of Elizabeth Jolley's novel The Newspaper of Claremont Street is a denial of any lasting Aboriginal presence on Australian land. It produces this effect by "filling the space" of potential Aboriginality with a universalized presentation of the archaic, European, economic antagonism between usury and substance.... the most objectionable thing about The Newspaper of Claremont Street is that its fundamental preoccupation is elevated into myth, making of the complete novel a powerful instrument of white colonization.' (p.65) -
Elizabeth Jolley : A Cross-Cultural Life in Writing
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , vol. 2 no. 2010;'Elizabeth Jolley is one of Australia's most significant writers: she published some two dozen books of fiction, essays and radio dramas, won every major Australian literary award, received four honorary doctorates, was awarded the Order of Australia for service to Australian Literature in 1988, and was named an Australian 'National Living Treasure' in 1997.
Her career has its roots in the UK, the place of her birth, schooling and early marriage. In 1959 she travelled with her three children and her husband to Perth, Western Australia, where Leonard Jolley took up a position as foundation Librarian of the University of Western Australia. She brought with her a trunk full of unpublished/rejected manuscripts which provided the initial materials from which she developed her published fictions and essays in Australia.
This article explores the institutional frameworks in Australia which enabled Jolley - a constant writer from childhood - to develop, in David Carter's phrase, 'a career in writing' from the mid-1970s onwards. It argues that Jolley rewrote her foundation manuscripts (written in another country) both to imagine Australian lives and to conform to Australian publishers' requirements. In doing so, it traces how the fiction and essays translate the experience of migration/exile, often thematised through the recurrent image of being 'on the edge,' into the particular and powerful ethic of love that informs Jolley's writing.' (Author's abstract)
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The Dancing Body - Somatic Expression in Elizabeth Jolley's Fiction
1994
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , Winter vol. 39 no. 2 1994; (p. 75-80) -
Jolley Country
1995
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Age , 14 October 1995; (p. 1,4)
Awards
- 2012 shortlisted The National Year of Reading 2012 Our Story Collection — Western Australia
- Perth, Western Australia,
- Bush,
- 1960s