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When Is It Time For ‘Writing With An Untrammelled Pen’? Reconciling the South Australian Settler Colony with Its Violent Past in Simpson Newland’s Historical Novel, Paving the Way : A Romance of the Australian Bush.
2011
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criticism
— Appears in: Integrity and Historical Research 2011; -
White Journeys into Black Country
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing 2010; (p. 149-161)'Rebecca Forbes and Jim Page were English immigrants who lived and died amongst the Adnyamathanha people of the northern Flinders Ranges in the first half of the twentieth century. The first time I saw their two graves there - just the two of them, on their own up the hill, a little above the community at Nepabunna - I asked the obvious question: How did they come to be there? The journeys involved in these trajectories - immigration from England to Australia, migration from the coast to the inland - are the focus of this paper.' (Author's introduction, 149)
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Lemuria and Australian Dreams of an Inland Sea
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Lemuria , Winter vol. 1 no. 1 2006; (p. 32-47) Cathcart reads a range of 'Lemurian novels,' examining their 'uncomplicated optimism about the future of White Australia, their trust that the key to that future lay beneath the earth, in the Great Australian Basin, and their attempts to grapple with the deadly impact of colonisation on the Aborigines who resisted' (44). -
The Making of Local Legend : Accounts of the South Australian Maria Massacre, 1840-1900
2001
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criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Summer vol. 16 no. 1 2001; (p. 63-79) -
South Australian Settler Memoirs
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 68 2001; (p. 97-104; Notes: 233-235) This article looks at the ways in which settlers from the first wave of migration to South Australia constructed a sense of regional identity in the colony through the genre of memoir, and at the consequent process of mythologising a regional legend of foundation.
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Publications Received
1899
single work
review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 25 February 1899; (p. 237)
— Review of Paving the Way : A Romance of the Australian Bush 1893 single work novel The reviewer describes Paving the Way: A Romance of the Australian Bush as a romance and adventure of shipwrecks, Aboriginal people, and bushrangers in early South Australia. -
The Making of Local Legend : Accounts of the South Australian Maria Massacre, 1840-1900
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Summer vol. 16 no. 1 2001; (p. 63-79) -
Lemuria and Australian Dreams of an Inland Sea
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Lemuria , Winter vol. 1 no. 1 2006; (p. 32-47) Cathcart reads a range of 'Lemurian novels,' examining their 'uncomplicated optimism about the future of White Australia, their trust that the key to that future lay beneath the earth, in the Great Australian Basin, and their attempts to grapple with the deadly impact of colonisation on the Aborigines who resisted' (44). -
Untitled
1896
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Free-Lance , 15 August vol. 1 no. 17 1896; (p. 6) Randolph Bedford commends Simpson Newland's Paving the Way: A Romance of the Australian Bush as 'a book every Australian should know'. -
White Journeys into Black Country
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing 2010; (p. 149-161)'Rebecca Forbes and Jim Page were English immigrants who lived and died amongst the Adnyamathanha people of the northern Flinders Ranges in the first half of the twentieth century. The first time I saw their two graves there - just the two of them, on their own up the hill, a little above the community at Nepabunna - I asked the obvious question: How did they come to be there? The journeys involved in these trajectories - immigration from England to Australia, migration from the coast to the inland - are the focus of this paper.' (Author's introduction, 149)
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Untitled
1900
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 3 November vol. 21 no. 1081 1900; (p. 2)
- Encounter Bay, Victor Harbor - Goolwa area, Fleurieu Peninsula - Lake Alexandrina, South Australia,
- Wilcannia, Far West NSW, New South Wales,
- Broken Hill, Broken Hill area, Far West NSW, New South Wales,