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Thistle Anderson Thistle Anderson i(A59300 works by) (birth name: Mary Clavering Anderson) (a.k.a. M. C. Fisher; Thistle M. C. Anderson; Thistle Clavering Fisher; Thistle Clavering Shearmur)
Also writes as: Mrs. Herbert Fisher
Born: Established: 12 Oct 1878
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Scotland,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1885
Heritage: Scottish
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1 The Holy Village Thistle Anderson , 1994 extract prose satire
— Appears in: Hope and Fear : An Anthology of South Australian Women's Writing, 1894-1994 1994; (p. 36-39)
1 y separately published work icon Lonely Lives : Being Ten True Tales Thistle Anderson , London : Knapp, Drewett , 1913 Z814832 1913 single work
1 y separately published work icon Songs to Dorian and Other Verses Thistle Anderson , London : 1909 Z24070 1909 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Barenski : A Play Thistle Anderson , 1908 Z858958 1908 single work drama

'Esme Bruce, who in the first place was married in England to the aged and wealthy Hon. Cecil Bruce, but was never quite happy with her husband, decides against the counsels of her friend Helen Lady Gordon to elope with Fedor Barenski, by repute a great violinist but whose playing, Esme says, lacks the passion which love is calculated to put into it. After a brief period of life in Europe with Esme, Barenski makes his mark in the musical world, and then he grows tired of the runaway. Bruce and the violinist meet in Paris, Barenski receives a fatal wound in the duel that follows (but which combat was not enacted on Monday night), and the curtain falls on the closing of the ignoble life of Esme, who poisons herself.'

Source:

'Barenski: A Farcical Melodrama', The Mount Barker Courier and Southern Advertiser, 26 May 1905, p.2.

1 y separately published work icon Dives' Wife and Other Fragments Thistle Anderson , Scotland : Alexander Gardner , 1908 Z856798 1908 single work short story
1 y separately published work icon The Reveller and Vagabond Verses Thistle Anderson , Adelaide : Thistle Anderson , 1905 Z23853 1905 selected work poetry
1 Love Light i "'I shall never love!' said a wayward maid,", Thistle Anderson , 1905 single work poetry
— Appears in: Steele Rudd's Magazine , June 1905; (p. 589-590)
1 Till We Meet Again i "'Till we meet again', she had whispered low,", Thistle Anderson , 1905 single work poetry
— Appears in: Steele Rudd's Magazine , March 1905; (p. 264-265)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Arcadians : Sequel to Arcadian Adelaide Thistle Anderson , Adelaide : Modern Printing , 1905 Z814802 1905 single work prose satire
2 5 y separately published work icon Arcadian Adelaide Thistle Anderson , Adelaide : Modern Printing , 1905 Z814799 1905 single work prose satire

'Scottish actress Thistle Anderson's firecracker of a polemic against her adopted hometown of Adelaide, published to roars of outrage and laughter in 1905, proves beyond doubt that people of the past were - just like us - fond of a good piss-take.

'This barbed satirical spray reveals the City of Churches as 'less holy than might be supposed', with more opium dens and prostitutes per capita than Melbourne, wines that are 'the worst ever made' (!), the local men 'caricatures' with inferior facial hair, the local women 'cats'. Thistle’s fondness is reserved for the fruit, the flour, the cabmen ... and the return ticket to Melbourne.

'This hilarious little volume, intended by its author as 'a playful skit', is to be taken with a pinch of salt ... or perhaps savoured, stubbornly, with a glass of excellent Adelaide wine.'

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1 y separately published work icon Verses at Random Thistle Anderson , Scotland : Alexander Gardner , 1901 Z23964 1901 selected work poetry
1 The War and Other Things A Women's Contingent i "'Only a woman!' with nerves of steel,", Thistle Anderson , 1900 single work poetry
— Appears in: The South Australian Register , 9 March 1900; (p. 7) Verses at Random 1901; The Poet's Discovery : Nineteenth Century Australia in Verse 1990; (p. 410-411) An Anthology of Australian Poetry to 1920 2007; (p. 335-336)
1 Three Years Ago i "We met - 'twas in the evening, and we left the maddening crowd.", Thistle Anderson , 1899 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , 1 January vol. 34 no. 404 1899; (p. 55)
1 Carmen Thistle Anderson , 1897 single work short story adventure
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , May vol. 32 no. 384 1897; (p. 371-374)
Riverina station adventure. Tracy Linden, an English new chum and barrister, is searching Australia for his guardian's missing son and heir. He strikes up a friendship with a gentlemanly but uncommunicative station hand, Joe. Joe loves his horse, Carmen, and the friendship grows. Linden plans to continue his search on the day Joe returns from a trip to Sydney. Joe does not return and a search party assisted by Carmen finds him wounded. He dies a few days later,revealing he is the man Linden was searching for and showing a volume of Wordsworth bearing the name of Joe's true father.(PB)
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