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Dedication: To my severest critic...[followed by long statement]
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Work on various editions including foreign editions to be continued.
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Works about this Work
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The Redemption of the Larrikin at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
2020
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 2020; (p. 18-24)'While significant Australian literary mythology surrounds the bushman and masculinity in rural settings, this chapter focusses on the larrikin in fiction around the turn of the twentieth century to examine how an idealised, nationally distinctive character type was imagined in the city as part of an evolving urban Australian culture. From the 1870s, the larrikin symbolised the violence of the working class in its most threatening and sinister guise. However, several decades later, Ethel Turner’s The Little Larrikin (1896) and Louis Stone’s Jonah (1911) contribute to the ‘rescue’ of the literary larrikin in their attempts to show the figure as endearing, distinctly Australian, and ground down by poverty. Both novels present redeeming depictions of larrikin figures, one a small middle-class boy who has pretensions to becoming a larrikin, and the other, an orphaned ‘hunchback’ who gradually builds his own fortune and progressively leaves behind the pull of the ‘push.’'
Source: Abstract
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Larrikinism and Ethel Turner's Fiction : The Sand-Patch and the Garden
1994
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criticism
— Appears in: Tilting at Matilda : Literature, Aborigines, Women and the Church in Contemporary Australia 1994; (p. 46-59) -
The Real Australian Girl? Some Post-Federation Writers for Girls
1993
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criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Time to Write : Australian Women Writers 1890-1930 1993; (p. 73-87) -
Writing the Home : The Literary Careers of Ethel Turner and L. M. Montgomery
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature Association Quarterly , vol. 15 no. 4 1990; (p. 175-180) Niall discusses the literary careers of Australian writer Ethel Turner and Canadian writer L. M. Montgomery with attention to how, as contemporaries, their experiences often paralleled one another. She argues that Turner revolutionized Australian children's literature by bringing 'the action indoors and show[ing] that suburban Australia could be at least as interesting as the outback' (175). As Niall points out 'traditionally, Australian writers have concerned themselves with the city or the bush; there is very little representation of small town communities or closely settled farming districts' (178-179). Up until the 1960s there was very little development of novels that celebrate regionalism and Niall cites Colin Thiele's The Sun on the Stubble as 'perhaps the best example of an emerging regional tradition' (179). While Montgomery's recurring motif was 'the orphan's search for a home', Turner's novels often centred on the struggle of an individual or family 'with poverty or a father's tyranny as the source of conflict' (178), and featured independent and resourceful heroines who often had to choose between 'a career as a writer or artist and marriage and motherhood' (176). -
Bazza and Belushi - Lair and Larrikin
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Larrikin Streak: Australian Writers Look at the Legend 1990; (p. 155-165)
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Literature. Literary Notes
1896
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review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 14 November vol. 62 no. 1897 1896; (p. 1030)
— Review of The Little Larrikin 1896 single work children's fiction -
New Books and New Editions
1896
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 14 November vol. 53 no. 1397 1896; (p. 44)
— Review of The Little Larrikin 1896 single work children's fiction -
The Rudiments of Fiction
1896
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 28 November vol. 17 no. 876 1896; (p. Red page)
— Review of The Little Larrikin 1896 single work children's fiction -
Writing the Home : The Literary Careers of Ethel Turner and L. M. Montgomery
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature Association Quarterly , vol. 15 no. 4 1990; (p. 175-180) Niall discusses the literary careers of Australian writer Ethel Turner and Canadian writer L. M. Montgomery with attention to how, as contemporaries, their experiences often paralleled one another. She argues that Turner revolutionized Australian children's literature by bringing 'the action indoors and show[ing] that suburban Australia could be at least as interesting as the outback' (175). As Niall points out 'traditionally, Australian writers have concerned themselves with the city or the bush; there is very little representation of small town communities or closely settled farming districts' (178-179). Up until the 1960s there was very little development of novels that celebrate regionalism and Niall cites Colin Thiele's The Sun on the Stubble as 'perhaps the best example of an emerging regional tradition' (179). While Montgomery's recurring motif was 'the orphan's search for a home', Turner's novels often centred on the struggle of an individual or family 'with poverty or a father's tyranny as the source of conflict' (178), and featured independent and resourceful heroines who often had to choose between 'a career as a writer or artist and marriage and motherhood' (176). -
Mother and Daughter
1921
single work
review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 3 December 1921; (p. 38)
— Review of King Anne 1921 single work children's fiction ; The Ship that Never Set Sail 1921 single work novel -
The Real Australian Girl? Some Post-Federation Writers for Girls
1993
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Time to Write : Australian Women Writers 1890-1930 1993; (p. 73-87) -
Larrikinism and Ethel Turner's Fiction : The Sand-Patch and the Garden
1994
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Tilting at Matilda : Literature, Aborigines, Women and the Church in Contemporary Australia 1994; (p. 46-59) -
Bazza and Belushi - Lair and Larrikin
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Larrikin Streak: Australian Writers Look at the Legend 1990; (p. 155-165)
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1880s