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'Barbara Hanrahan was both a writer and a visual artist, and this magical first novel is an autobiographical evocation of her childhood. A delicious blend of fantasy and realism, it is a powerful, lyrical story of a child's rites of passage through a world where the family home, its garden, and the three women who preside over it, area vital and compelling participants in the shaping of a child's rituals of discovery and awareness.' (UQP)
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Some further newspaper reviews, without page numbers, are listed in the bibliography in Woman and Herself, by Annette Stewart.
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Selected by the Big Book Club as joint featured book for December 2005.
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Australia in Three Books
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 78 no. 1 2019; (p. 22-25)'I’ve heard of that place, Australia. There are even some memories that persist of it as a discrete, identifiable object. It was a thing taught to me in primary school in jovial, unambiguous ways. It was a series of tales of sheep, and rushes of gold, and the bushranging bloke with a metal bucket on his head. It played cricket against the West Indies. It was precisely 200 years old and we dressed as convicts and walked down the town’s main street to celebrate this fact. All incompleteness and lies that I felt disconnected from then, as I do now.' (Introduction)
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'A Painted Queen Jumped Free' : Body and Spirit in the Fiction of Barbara Hanrahan
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 70 no. 2 2010; (p. 15-37) The article discusses the sacred and the erotic in Hanrahan's work, and the conjoining of both. -
Descriptive Step Back to Old Adelaide
2005
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 December 2005; (p. 25) -
Towards a Poetics of the 'Unhomed': The House in Katherine Mansfield's 'Prelude' and Barbara Hanrahan's The Scent of Eucalyptus
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 18 no. 1 2004; (p. 60-66) Masgrau-Peya examines 'the representation of home and the domestic myth in Mansfield's 'Prelude' and in Hanrahan 's The Scent of the Eucalyptus, concentrating on their simultaneous presentation of the fiction of domestic bliss and the repudiation of the ideological tenets that inform it.' Masgrau-Peya argues that being 'unhoused' for most of their adult lives, Mansfield and Hanrahan eschewed the 'comforts of either home or conventional family'. Their writing, even when recognising the 'warmth and security' of family and the 'comforts of home' also acknowledges 'the politics of repression, exclusion and exploitation that make them possible.' -
The 'Good Oil': Eucalypts and Murray Bail's Eucalyptus
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 15 no. 1 2001; (p. 40-44)
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Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 7 no. 2 1993; (p. 16)
— Review of The Scent of Eucalyptus 1973 single work novel -
Paperbacks
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 July 1993; (p. 26)
— Review of Tooth and Claw 1983 single work novel ; The World is Round 1896 single work novel ; The Scent of Eucalyptus 1973 single work novel -
Too Many Echoes
1984
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 March 1984; (p. 35)
— Review of Kewpie Doll 1984 single work novel ; The Scent of Eucalyptus 1973 single work novel -
Untitled
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 98)
— Review of The Scent of Eucalyptus 1973 single work novel ; The Albatross Muff 1977 single work novel -
Wild Poetry Unlocked Once More
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 24 April 1993; (p. 48)
— Review of The Scent of Eucalyptus 1973 single work novel -
Towards a Poetics of the 'Unhomed': The House in Katherine Mansfield's 'Prelude' and Barbara Hanrahan's The Scent of Eucalyptus
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 18 no. 1 2004; (p. 60-66) Masgrau-Peya examines 'the representation of home and the domestic myth in Mansfield's 'Prelude' and in Hanrahan 's The Scent of the Eucalyptus, concentrating on their simultaneous presentation of the fiction of domestic bliss and the repudiation of the ideological tenets that inform it.' Masgrau-Peya argues that being 'unhoused' for most of their adult lives, Mansfield and Hanrahan eschewed the 'comforts of either home or conventional family'. Their writing, even when recognising the 'warmth and security' of family and the 'comforts of home' also acknowledges 'the politics of repression, exclusion and exploitation that make them possible.' -
Descriptive Step Back to Old Adelaide
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 December 2005; (p. 25) -
'A Painted Queen Jumped Free' : Body and Spirit in the Fiction of Barbara Hanrahan
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 70 no. 2 2010; (p. 15-37) The article discusses the sacred and the erotic in Hanrahan's work, and the conjoining of both. -
Parallel Lives : Barbara Hanrahan, Barbara Harvey Zerbini
1994
single work
biography
— Appears in: Voices , Autumn vol. 4 no. 1 1994; (p. 22-30) -
Earthworm Small
1989
single work
biography
— Appears in: Inner Cities : Australian Women's Memory of Place 1989; (p. 143-152)
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