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- The Performance, single work short story (p. 1-29)
- Winter Nelis, single work short story (p. 30-40)
- The Owner of Grief The Outworks of the Kingdom, single work short story (p. 41-47)
- The Agent in Travelling, single work short story (p. 48-55)
- The Long Distance Lecture, single work short story (p. 56-69)
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The Fellow Passenger,
single work
short story
'As his ship proceeds to Australia, Dr Abrahams goes on a parallel inner journey.' (Journeys, p.149)
- Mr Parker's Valentine, single work short story (p. 84-95)
- A New World, single work short story (p. 96-104)
- The Travelling Entertainer, single work short story (p. 105-131)
- Grasshoppers, single work short story (p. 133-181)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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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 She brought with her a trunk full of unpublished/rejected manuscripts which provided the initial materials from which she developed her published fictions and essays in Australia.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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`Du Holde Kunst': Music and Musical Form in Elizabeth Jolley's Fiction
1991
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Elizabeth Jolley : New Critical Essays 1991; (p. 208-218) -
Love, Longing and Loneliness : The Fiction of Elizabeth Jolley
1983
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 56 1983; (p. 8-12) -
Between Two Worlds - An Approach to Elizabeth Jolley's Fiction
1983
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 43 no. 3 1983; (p. 239-252) -
All the Qualities of The Art : Circuiting Some Shorts
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 40 no. 2 1981; (p. 200-208)
— Review of The Travelling Entertainer and Other Stories 1979 selected work short story ; South Pacific Stories 1980 anthology short story ; The Hottest Night of the Century : Short Stories 1979 selected work short story ; To Command the Cats and Other Stories 1980 selected work short story ; Mobiles and Other Stories 1979 selected work short story ; Summer Ends Now : Stories 1980 selected work short story ; The Hat on the Letter O and Other Stories 1978 selected work short story ; Walking the Line 1979 selected work short story ; The Possession of Amber 1980 selected work short story ; Faces You Can't Find Again : short stories 1980 selected work short story ; White River and Other Stories 1979 selected work short story ; The Skedule and Other Australian Short Stories 1979 selected work short story ; The Everlasting Secret Family and Other Secrets 1980 selected work short story
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All the Qualities of The Art : Circuiting Some Shorts
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 40 no. 2 1981; (p. 200-208)
— Review of The Travelling Entertainer and Other Stories 1979 selected work short story ; South Pacific Stories 1980 anthology short story ; The Hottest Night of the Century : Short Stories 1979 selected work short story ; To Command the Cats and Other Stories 1980 selected work short story ; Mobiles and Other Stories 1979 selected work short story ; Summer Ends Now : Stories 1980 selected work short story ; The Hat on the Letter O and Other Stories 1978 selected work short story ; Walking the Line 1979 selected work short story ; The Possession of Amber 1980 selected work short story ; Faces You Can't Find Again : short stories 1980 selected work short story ; White River and Other Stories 1979 selected work short story ; The Skedule and Other Australian Short Stories 1979 selected work short story ; The Everlasting Secret Family and Other Secrets 1980 selected work short story -
Untitled
1980
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 19 1980; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Country Girl Again : Stories 1979 selected work short story ; War Crimes : Short Stories 1979 selected work short story ; The Wife Specialist : Stories 1979 selected work short story ; The Travelling Entertainer and Other Stories 1979 selected work short story -
Three Short Story Writers - Peter Cowan, Elizabeth Jolley, Justina Williams
1980
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 25 no. 2 1980; (p. 104-107)
— Review of The Travelling Entertainer and Other Stories 1979 selected work short story ; White River and Other Stories 1979 selected work short story ; Mobiles and Other Stories 1979 selected work short story -
Casualties of Their Own Environment
1979
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 29 December 1979; (p. 20)
— Review of The Travelling Entertainer and Other Stories 1979 selected work short story -
Tales of Imagination and Realistic Horror
1980
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 19 1980; (p. 20-21)
— Review of The Travelling Entertainer and Other Stories 1979 selected work short story -
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)
-
Love, Longing and Loneliness : The Fiction of Elizabeth Jolley
1983
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 56 1983; (p. 8-12) -
Five Acre Hell
1980
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , December vol. 25 no. 4 1980; (p. 73-75) -
`Du Holde Kunst': Music and Musical Form in Elizabeth Jolley's Fiction
1991
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Elizabeth Jolley : New Critical Essays 1991; (p. 208-218) -
Between Two Worlds - An Approach to Elizabeth Jolley's Fiction
1983
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 43 no. 3 1983; (p. 239-252)