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Issue Details: First known date: 1880... 1880 An Australian Heroine
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  • Editions of this work other than the first edition were published under the name Mrs Campbell Praed

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Tiffin lists an 1890 ed. published in New York by G. Munro; this has not been traced.
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Works about this Work

Friday Essay : ‘A Prisoner on the Rack’ – How 19th-century Australian Women Wrote about Marital Rape Zoe Smith , 2024 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 22 March 2024;
‘A Peacock's Plume Among a Pile of Geese Feathers’ : Rosa Praed in the United States David Carter , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , June vol. 21 no. 1 2014; (p. 23-38)

'Rosa Praed has been claimed as ‘the first Australian-born novelist to achieve a significant international reputation.’ Almost certainly, she was the first Australian-born novelist to be published in the United States, although she was in England by the time her first novel appeared in America in 1883. Of Praed's forty-seven published works, twenty-five appeared in American editions in the three decades from 1883 to 1915, including twenty-four of her thirty-eight novels in more than forty separate editions. In the years either side of the century's turn, she was among the best known Australian writers in America, alongside Louis Becke and Rolf Boldrewood.' (Publication abstract)
Rosa Praed's Colonial Heroines Michael Sharkey , 1981 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 10 no. 1 1981; (p. 48-56) Who Is She? 1983; (p. 26-36) Sharkey argues that romance enabled Praed to present the colonial experience from a metropolitan point of view and intelligibly relate the circumstances of women in fronteir society to a European audience. This is achieved by employing a love-theory that declares, in Platonic terms, that for each person there is one who is their perfect match.
y separately published work icon In Mortal Bondage : The Strange Life of Rosa Praed Colin Roderick , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1948 Z564832 1948 single work criticism biography
Three Novels Worth Reading Australie , 1881 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 5 March vol. 31 no. 1078 1881; (p. 365)
— Review of An Australian Heroine R. Murray Prior , 1880 single work novel
Three Novels Worth Reading Australie , 1881 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 5 March vol. 31 no. 1078 1881; (p. 365)
— Review of An Australian Heroine R. Murray Prior , 1880 single work novel
An Australian Heroine 1880 single work review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 9 October 1880; (p. 460)
— Review of An Australian Heroine R. Murray Prior , 1880 single work novel
Rosa Praed's Colonial Heroines Michael Sharkey , 1981 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 10 no. 1 1981; (p. 48-56) Who Is She? 1983; (p. 26-36) Sharkey argues that romance enabled Praed to present the colonial experience from a metropolitan point of view and intelligibly relate the circumstances of women in fronteir society to a European audience. This is achieved by employing a love-theory that declares, in Platonic terms, that for each person there is one who is their perfect match.
y separately published work icon In Mortal Bondage : The Strange Life of Rosa Praed Colin Roderick , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1948 Z564832 1948 single work criticism biography
‘A Peacock's Plume Among a Pile of Geese Feathers’ : Rosa Praed in the United States David Carter , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , June vol. 21 no. 1 2014; (p. 23-38)

'Rosa Praed has been claimed as ‘the first Australian-born novelist to achieve a significant international reputation.’ Almost certainly, she was the first Australian-born novelist to be published in the United States, although she was in England by the time her first novel appeared in America in 1883. Of Praed's forty-seven published works, twenty-five appeared in American editions in the three decades from 1883 to 1915, including twenty-four of her thirty-eight novels in more than forty separate editions. In the years either side of the century's turn, she was among the best known Australian writers in America, alongside Louis Becke and Rolf Boldrewood.' (Publication abstract)
Friday Essay : ‘A Prisoner on the Rack’ – How 19th-century Australian Women Wrote about Marital Rape Zoe Smith , 2024 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 22 March 2024;
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