AustLit

'A sweeping tale of colonial Tasmania, as well as of the English military campaigns in India and Burma.' The Shadow of the Gun recounts Joan Harvey's life, growing up in the late 1800s.

Source: 'The Shadow of the Guns: Synopsis', Rakuten Kobo Inc., 2018.

Adaptation of Harvey's 1935 one-act play of the same name.

'The Dymant children have the solution to the world's problems, but Janetta finds a successful career and demands the abandonment of her ideals, while Griff must abandon his scientific ambitions to become a humdrum clerk. Only Chrystal remains a poetic idealist, and because she cannot compromise, her personal solution can only be suicide.'

Source: 'Random Elements', The Age, 7 Nov. 1938, p. 13.

Women refuse to bear children when they are repulsed by modern social and political movements brought about by perverse leaders.

Source: 'Australian Plays', The Age, 14 Sep. 1938, p. 6.

'A young settler coming home with his bride to the little hut in a remote valley, where he had acquired land and stock by means that law would not sanction, is told by his straightlaced bride that he must give up his land or she will leave him. He decides that his land means more to him than a wife.'

Source: 'One-Act Plays', The Age, 4 Apr. 1936, p. 4.

'The setting is typically Australian - among the tea-tree on the Mornington Peninsula. A young married couple camp there away from all home influences so that they can settle one of the big problems of their life--whether the husband should accept a more lucrative position that has been offered him. '

Source: 'Distinctive Literature', The Herald, 22 Nov. 1934, p. 14.