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1 y separately published work icon Nineteenth Hole Romances, and the Devious Methods of Joseph Blotchford 19th Hole Romances Cecil Finn Tucker , Melbourne : Melbourne Publishing Company , 1927 Z1443226 1927 selected work short story humour
1 2 y separately published work icon The Spell Of The Inland: A Romance of Central Australia John Armour , Melbourne : Melbourne Publishing Company , 1923 Z41852 1923 single work novel
1 1 y separately published work icon Us Five The Other Side of the Hill Myra Morris , Melbourne : Melbourne Publishing Company , 1922 Z1246973 1922 single work children's fiction children's 'The five are Peter, Cissy, Nancy, and twins Beauty and Barbara. When their parents go off to Egypt they are left with Uncle Horace and Cousin Estelle, where they discover a deserted house and garden. The children repair the garden to its original beauty, and when the artist-owner returns he is transformed by the enthusiasm and innocence of the children, so that he is able to paint again' (Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature 305).
2 1 y separately published work icon Coppertop Cruises : The Wonderful Voyage of the Good Ship 'Queercraft' Harold Gaze , Harold Gaze (illustrator), 1920 single work children's fiction children's adventure H.M. Saxby, in A History of Australian Children's Literature, writes that this work and Coppertop : The Queer Adventures of a Quaint Child 'are fantasies about a small girl's night and early-morning adventures in a world where she meets people like the Clerk of the Weather and the South Wind, and visits far places such as the Taj Mahal' (176).
1 y separately published work icon Aussie Girls Esther Paterson , Esther Paterson (illustrator), Melbourne : Melbourne Publishing Company , 1919 Z1576835 1919 selected work prose art work humour

Selection of drawings of glamorous women with humorous captions, interspersed with advertisements, some of which are also illustrated by Paterson.
1 2 y separately published work icon Gully Folk Minnie I. Rowe , Melbourne : Melbourne Publishing Company , 1919 Z1409647 1919 single work children's fiction children's
1 1 y separately published work icon Coppertop : The Queer Adventures of a Quaint Child Harold Gaze , Melbourne : Melbourne Publishing Company , 1919 Z838215 1919 single work children's fiction children's H.M. Saxby, in A History of Australian Children's Literature, writes that this work and its sequel, Coppertop Cruises: the Wonderful Voyage of the Good Ship Queercraft (1920) 'are fantasies about a small girl's night and early-morning adventures in a world where she meets people like the Clerk of the Weather and the South Wind, and visits far places such as the Taj Mahal' (176).
1 2 y separately published work icon In Australian Wilds : The Gleanings of a Naturalist Charles Barrett , Melbourne : Melbourne Publishing Company , 1919 Z220904 1919 single work prose
1 1 y separately published work icon The Wand of Dawn Minnie I. Rowe , Melbourne : Melbourne Publishing Company , 1918 Z1409653 1918 single work children's fiction children's

'[T]ells the story of a young girl who gets lost in fairyland, but finally escapes to find that her beloved brother has returned home safely from the war in France' (National Library Magazine June 2010: 23).
1 1 y separately published work icon The Laughter Lady : A Story for Children of Different Ages Gertrude Hart , Melbourne : Melbourne Publishing Company , 1914 Z1012317 1914 single work children's fiction children's
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