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'Such Sadism, Such Pain' : Three Novels about Historical Masculinity
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 452 2023; (p. 38-39)
— Review of A Man of Honour 2023 single work novel ; The Death of John Lacey 2023 single work novel ; The Investigators 2023 single work novel'In recent historical fiction, women authors have explored the Australian past from a female viewpoint, as in Kate Grenville’s A Room Made of Leaves (2020), focusing on Elizabeth Macarthur, and Anita Heiss’s Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, River of Dreams (2022), about Wagadhaany, an Indigenous woman from the Murrumbidgee River. As if in response to such potent novels, now comes a trio expressing historical masculinity.' (Introduction)
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Quaint, Queer Portrait of a Butterfly Fenian Hero
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 February 2023; (p. 19)
— Review of A Man of Honour 2023 single work novel'In 1869, just after the American Civil War and just before Anna Karenina appeared, Henry James O’Farrell, Irish by birth and affiliation but long domiciled in Australia, took a shot at Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, one of the younger sons of Queen Victoria, who was visiting Sydney at the time.'
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Quaint, Queer Portrait of a Butterfly Fenian Hero
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 February 2023; (p. 19)
— Review of A Man of Honour 2023 single work novel'In 1869, just after the American Civil War and just before Anna Karenina appeared, Henry James O’Farrell, Irish by birth and affiliation but long domiciled in Australia, took a shot at Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, one of the younger sons of Queen Victoria, who was visiting Sydney at the time.'
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'Such Sadism, Such Pain' : Three Novels about Historical Masculinity
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 452 2023; (p. 38-39)
— Review of A Man of Honour 2023 single work novel ; The Death of John Lacey 2023 single work novel ; The Investigators 2023 single work novel'In recent historical fiction, women authors have explored the Australian past from a female viewpoint, as in Kate Grenville’s A Room Made of Leaves (2020), focusing on Elizabeth Macarthur, and Anita Heiss’s Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, River of Dreams (2022), about Wagadhaany, an Indigenous woman from the Murrumbidgee River. As if in response to such potent novels, now comes a trio expressing historical masculinity.' (Introduction)
- Clontarf, Manly - Allambie - Curl Curl area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1868
