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Contains stories about north India, some based on the author's 'own experiences as the wife of an officer serving on the frontier, others based on incidents in the history of India'. Following Anderson's death, another collection of Indian stories was published under the title The Little Ghosts (1959); this posthumous work contains five of the stories from Indian Tales but also nine new ones. (Source: John Douglas Pringle, 'Foreword', The Best of Ethel Anderson, 1973)
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Australasian Publishing Co.
, 1948 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Mrs James Greene, single work short story
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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The Little Ghosts
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Angus and Robertson
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1959
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'This collection of Ethel Anderson's Indian stories calls back to life a world that has passed away. Against the richly coloured background of Indian life, ranging in time from the sixteenth century to the last days of British rule, rajahs and camel-drivers, white nabobs and exquisite princesses, gipsies [sic], and English gentlewomen play out their comedies and tragedies. There are scenes so strange and bizarre that they would be incredible of their vividness did not carry its own conviction, and others that live in the memory by their intense and haunting beauty; there are tales of cruelty and passion and of charming light-heartedness. The brilliance of Ethel Anderson's style, with its distinctive blending of wit and poetry, makes her the perfect chronicler of this fascinating world.' (Source: 1959 Angus and Robertson edition)
Works about this Work
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Indian Ethos & Australian Encounters : Articulating Resistance in Ethel Anderson’s Indian Tales
2024
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australia–India Encounters 2024; (p. 65-82) -
Trading Yarns : India, Australia, and Ethel Anderson
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , Spring vol. 41 no. 2004; (p. 85-103) 'In the Macleay Museum at the University of Sydney a serendipitous variety of Victorian curiosities are brought. together from many private collections. Amongst them is a small card with a sample of white fabric attached. It is a piece of muslin, made from cotton grown in Australia, spun in Manchester, and woven in Dacca, dated "c. 1850." What it indicates is the complex network of colonial production that was already outsourcing and modularising long before the word "globalisation" had been thought of. Bringing this item together with an equally curious "museum piece" of Australian literature (the Indian stories of Ethel Anderson) points up some of the limitations of previous constructions of literary histories, not just those standard narratives of the spread of (and assimilation to) Empire culture, but also the nationalist counter-stories of a separate and different emergence of an autonomous cultural identity.'(Introduction)
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Foreword : Ethel Anderson
1973
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Best of Ethel Anderson 1973; (p. [vii]-xvi) -
Indian Tales
1949
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 23 February vol. 70 no. 3602 1949; (p. 2)
— Review of Indian Tales 1948 selected work short story -
The Scheherazade Touch
1948
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 September 1948;
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Indian Tales
1949
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 23 February vol. 70 no. 3602 1949; (p. 2)
— Review of Indian Tales 1948 selected work short story -
Trading Yarns : India, Australia, and Ethel Anderson
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , Spring vol. 41 no. 2004; (p. 85-103) 'In the Macleay Museum at the University of Sydney a serendipitous variety of Victorian curiosities are brought. together from many private collections. Amongst them is a small card with a sample of white fabric attached. It is a piece of muslin, made from cotton grown in Australia, spun in Manchester, and woven in Dacca, dated "c. 1850." What it indicates is the complex network of colonial production that was already outsourcing and modularising long before the word "globalisation" had been thought of. Bringing this item together with an equally curious "museum piece" of Australian literature (the Indian stories of Ethel Anderson) points up some of the limitations of previous constructions of literary histories, not just those standard narratives of the spread of (and assimilation to) Empire culture, but also the nationalist counter-stories of a separate and different emergence of an autonomous cultural identity.'(Introduction)
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Foreword : Ethel Anderson
1973
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Best of Ethel Anderson 1973; (p. [vii]-xvi) -
The Scheherazade Touch
1948
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 September 1948; -
Indian Ethos & Australian Encounters : Articulating Resistance in Ethel Anderson’s Indian Tales
2024
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australia–India Encounters 2024; (p. 65-82)
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cIndia,cSouth Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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