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'With a night in the city behind them, a pantomime and distributing gifts at the Children’s Hospital, Norah returns to Billabong for the holidays with a school friend after a whole year away at bothersome boarding school. The family settles back in to their station life, cattle mustering, dealing with a snake bite, a maliciously lit bushfire that destroys their house, rescuing a stolen child and the shenanigans of Jim and Wally.' (Publication summary)
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Books We Read as Kids Make Us Who We are Today
2013
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— Appears in: The Age , 20 December 2013; (p. 29) -
She Rides Astride : Mateship, Morality and the Outback-Colonial Girl
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies , vol. 18 no. 1 2013; (p. 28-39)'This article focuses on the representation of girlhood, gender and mateship particular to Australia, and to a lesser extent New Zealand, within the context of an emerging nationalism, social change and political upheaval. In it, I apply an illustrator’s perspective to interrogating the cultural significance of Mary Grant Bruce’s iconic outback heroine, Norah of Billabong Station. By comparatively examining Norah’s sequential representation in the narrative text, and the illustrations produced by John MacFarlane, I argue Bruce and her little-known, and rarely discussed immigrant illustrator combined to create an ideal and national type that was counter to anything that had been created for colonial girl readers before.' (Author's abstract)
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The Pioneers : Ethel Turner and Mary Grant Bruce
1995
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criticism
— Appears in: Australian Children's Literature : An Exploration of Genre and Theme 1995; (p. 15-34) -
'Norah of Billabong'
1913
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 12 November 1913; (p. 26)
— Review of Norah of Billabong 1913 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
1913
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bookfellow , 15 October 1913; (p. 226)
— Review of Norah of Billabong 1913 single work children's fiction
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Untitled
1913
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bookfellow , 15 October 1913; (p. 226)
— Review of Norah of Billabong 1913 single work children's fiction -
'Norah of Billabong'
1913
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 12 November 1913; (p. 26)
— Review of Norah of Billabong 1913 single work children's fiction -
The Pioneers : Ethel Turner and Mary Grant Bruce
1995
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Children's Literature : An Exploration of Genre and Theme 1995; (p. 15-34) -
She Rides Astride : Mateship, Morality and the Outback-Colonial Girl
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies , vol. 18 no. 1 2013; (p. 28-39)'This article focuses on the representation of girlhood, gender and mateship particular to Australia, and to a lesser extent New Zealand, within the context of an emerging nationalism, social change and political upheaval. In it, I apply an illustrator’s perspective to interrogating the cultural significance of Mary Grant Bruce’s iconic outback heroine, Norah of Billabong Station. By comparatively examining Norah’s sequential representation in the narrative text, and the illustrations produced by John MacFarlane, I argue Bruce and her little-known, and rarely discussed immigrant illustrator combined to create an ideal and national type that was counter to anything that had been created for colonial girl readers before.' (Author's abstract)
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Books We Read as Kids Make Us Who We are Today
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 20 December 2013; (p. 29)
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