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y separately published work icon Fortunatus : A Romance single work   children's fiction   children's  
Note: Published anonymously.
Issue Details: First known date: 1903... 1903 Fortunatus : A Romance
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'Fortunatus is a juvenile story of the adventures of a Jersey lad who migrates to the Victorian goldfields in the 'sixties and later voyages in the Near East'. Source: Australian Literature from its Beginnings to 1935, v. 2.

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  • Epigraph: 'Like to the Pontic Sea, whose icy current and compulsive course ne'er feels retiring ebb but keeps due on.' - Othello

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God's One Country : The Description of Asians by Australian Children's Authors Stella Lees , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: La Trobe Library Journal , Spring no. 60 1997; (p. 62-73) 'This paper will examine some of the representations made of Asian characters in Australian children's literature, with particular reference to the image of Chinese, who are the Asian people most frequently alluded before World War I and who have continued to be present in more recent writing' (62).
Untitled 1903 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 14 October vol. 67 no. 1758 1903; (p. 56)
— Review of Fortunatus : A Romance J. H. White , 1903 single work children's fiction
Untitled 1903 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 14 October vol. 67 no. 1758 1903; (p. 56)
— Review of Fortunatus : A Romance J. H. White , 1903 single work children's fiction
God's One Country : The Description of Asians by Australian Children's Authors Stella Lees , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: La Trobe Library Journal , Spring no. 60 1997; (p. 62-73) 'This paper will examine some of the representations made of Asian characters in Australian children's literature, with particular reference to the image of Chinese, who are the Asian people most frequently alluded before World War I and who have continued to be present in more recent writing' (62).
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