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A comprehensive biography of George Johnston's life and work with particular reference to his literary work especially the autobiographical novels of the Meredith Trilogy.
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Charmain Clift and George Johnston, Hydra 1960 : The 'Lost' Photographs of James Burke
2014
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— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 73 no. 1 2014; (p. 18-37)'In one of her many essays, Charmian Clift writes of the melancholic experience of feeling like a photograph. She has been asked to address a group of students at Wollongong High School, a school she had attended, and in preparing her speech she turns to a photograph that appears in the school's fiftieth-anniversary commemorative booklet. The photograph depicts a class from Clift's time at the school, 'formally posed with the boys lined up behind the girls and their hands resting on the girls' shoulders' ('On Turning slightly Sepia', p. 48 (see References below)), and as photographs do it evokes in Clift's memory small details that are not evidenced in the image itself: 'I can still see one of those girls arched in a perfect swallow dive, and remember precisely a collar of little pearl buttons on a blue crepe dress that another of them wore to an end-of-term dance that year'(48). The photograph also prompts Clift to consider how different her teenage circumstances were from those of the students she is to speak to, their faces shining with the confidence that faith in the goodness of the future affords. Before those faces now momentarily turned to her, she thinks of herself as the past, and wonders, 'if they realized that standing up before them I knew myself to be curling at the edges and turning slightly sepia' (51).' (Publication abstract)
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The Advancing Wave : Australian Literary Biography Since 1980
1992
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— Appears in: Reconnoitres : Essays in Australian Literature in Honour of G. A. Wilkes 1992; (p. 191-203) Studies in Australian Literary History 1997; (p. 215-229) -
The Romance of Brothers Jack's Real Life
1989
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— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 10-11 June 1989; (p. 8)
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The Right Company and a Winter's Tale
1989
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 May 1989; (p. 14)
— Review of George Johnston : A Biography 1986 single work biography ; Beach Plastic : Poems 1989 selected work poetry ; The Lake Frome Monster 1966 single work novel ; Singles : Shorter Works 1981-1986 1989 selected work poetry ; The Hidden Culture : Folklore in Australian Society 1989 single work criticism ; Nettie Palmer : Her Private Journal Fourteen Years, Poems, Reviews and Literary Essays 1988 selected work poetry prose criticism review autobiography biography -
A Job Well Done
1989
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— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , August no. 66 1989; (p. 26)
— Review of George Johnston : A Biography 1986 single work biography
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Inside Jack's Famous Brother
1986
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 4-5 October 1986; (p. 14)
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Links With Greatness
1986
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— Appears in: The Age , 11 October 1986; (p. 20)
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Pushing Anarchic Life to the Edge of Disaster
1986
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 October 1986; (p. 48)
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George Johnston, the Literary Folk Hero Who Came Too Soon
1986
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— Appears in: The Bulletin , 7 October vol. 108 no. 5539 1986; (p. 86-88)
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Untitled
1986
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 8 November 1986; (p. 6)
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The Advancing Wave : Australian Literary Biography Since 1980
1992
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— Appears in: Reconnoitres : Essays in Australian Literature in Honour of G. A. Wilkes 1992; (p. 191-203) Studies in Australian Literary History 1997; (p. 215-229) -
Biography and Fiction : George Johnston's Meredith Trilogy and Garry Kinane's Biography
1988
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— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 13 no. 3 1988; (p. 357-364) -
Brother George Looks Over Biographers' Shoulders
1987
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— Appears in: Westerly , September vol. 32 no. 3 1987; (p. 75-77) -
The Beautiful and the Damned : George Johnston and Auto/Biographical Fictions
1988
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— Appears in: Island Magazine , Autumn no. 34-35 1988; (p. 148-156) -
Reply to Graeme Kinross Smith
1988
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— Appears in: Westerly , March vol. 33 no. 1 1988; (p. 83)
Awards
- Childhood
- Families
- Youth
- Marriage
- Family relationships
- Journalism
- War correspondents
- World War II
- Writers' works
- Reunions & homecomings
- Conflicts
- Australian expatriate writers
- Place & identity
- Death
- Australian literature and writers
- Characterisation
- Writer's inspiration
- Literary portrayal
- Tuberculosis
- Self perception
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- Sydney, New South Wales,
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London,
cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
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Kalymnos,
Greek islands,
cGreece,cWestern Europe, Europe,
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Stanton,
Cotswolds,
Gloucestershire,
cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
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cUnited States of America (USA),cAmericas,
- Asia,
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Hydra,
Greek islands,
cGreece,cWestern Europe, Europe,