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Issue Details: First known date: 1949... 1949 How Beautiful Are Thy Feet
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form y separately published work icon One Hundred a Day Gillian Armstrong , ( dir. Gillian Armstrong ) Sydney : Australian Film and Television School , 1973 Z1046283 1973 single work film/TV A drama set in a 1930s' shoe factory in Sydney, where a young girl continues to work at her machine after a visit to a backyard abortionist, while her body slowly aborts the foetus.

Notes

  • Epigraph: How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, / O prince's daughter
  • Dedication: To my father and mother
  • Epigraph: So I cried...To the end. - G. D. H. Cole, 'Factory Dirge', The Crooked World.

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Works about this Work

Radical Nationalism and Socialist Realism in Alan Marshall's Autobiographical Writing John McLaren , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , June vol. 36 no. 2 2012; (p. 229-244) 'Alan Marshall's work has either been neglected or has been discussed in the context of its contribution to the Australian identity or as an example of Australian autobiography. This essay examines his early novel and his three directly autobiographical works to argue that he uses his studies of popular Australian values to develop a basis for an inclusive Australian democracy. The argument of the essay is that the socialist realist doctrines of the Realist Writers Group and his bush background influence his choice of voice and form, but that the politics of his work has been overlooked. This, as well as his reputation as a popular author, accounts for the unjust critical neglect of his work.' (Publisher's abstract)
Alan Marshall : Trapped in His Own Image John McLaren , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 1 no. 2 2004; (p. 85-99) Alan Marshall ... wrote for a popular audience, to which he conveyed an image of the ordinary Australian as a decent, egalitarian battler, suspicious of authority but always ready to help his mates ... he also created an image of himself as one of them who had, helped by his rural community, overcome the particular disadvantage of infantile paralysis with courage and good humour ... Toward the end of his life, however, he published a collection of stories that show a dark underside of violence and brutality beneath the surface geniality. Far from destroying the earlier image of the Australian, however, these stories discover a strength by which his people endured their darkness.' (p.85)
Documenting and Criticising Society David Carter , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 13 no. 4 1988; (p. 370-389) Always Almost Modern : Australian Print Cultures and Modernity 2013; (p. 167-185)
The Happy Warrior John Morrison , 1984 single work biography
— Appears in: Overland , September no. 96 1984; (p. 21-24) The Happy Warrior 1987; (p. 40-50)
A Neglected Novel : Alan Marshall's Factory Elaine Lindsay , 1978 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , no. 73 1978; (p. 42-44)
Untitled John Morrison , 1950 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 9 no. 1 1950; (p. 67-68)
— Review of How Beautiful Are Thy Feet Alan Marshall , 1949 single work novel
Brighter Than Life Sarah Campion , 1950 single work review
— Appears in: John O'London's Weekly , 22 December 1950; (p. 711)
— Review of How Beautiful Are Thy Feet Alan Marshall , 1949 single work novel
Untitled Shirley Despoja , 1972 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 18 November 1972; (p. 22)
— Review of How Beautiful Are Thy Feet Alan Marshall , 1949 single work novel
Alan Marshall : Trapped in His Own Image John McLaren , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 1 no. 2 2004; (p. 85-99) Alan Marshall ... wrote for a popular audience, to which he conveyed an image of the ordinary Australian as a decent, egalitarian battler, suspicious of authority but always ready to help his mates ... he also created an image of himself as one of them who had, helped by his rural community, overcome the particular disadvantage of infantile paralysis with courage and good humour ... Toward the end of his life, however, he published a collection of stories that show a dark underside of violence and brutality beneath the surface geniality. Far from destroying the earlier image of the Australian, however, these stories discover a strength by which his people endured their darkness.' (p.85)
The Novel : Novels of Purpose H. M. Green , 1961 single work criticism
— Appears in: A History of Australian Literature, Pure and Applied : A Critical Review of All Forms of Literature Produced in Australia from the First Books Published After the Arrival of the First Fleet Until 1950, with Short Accounts of Later Publications Up to 1960 1961; (p. 1122-1152)
Radical Nationalism and Socialist Realism in Alan Marshall's Autobiographical Writing John McLaren , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , June vol. 36 no. 2 2012; (p. 229-244) 'Alan Marshall's work has either been neglected or has been discussed in the context of its contribution to the Australian identity or as an example of Australian autobiography. This essay examines his early novel and his three directly autobiographical works to argue that he uses his studies of popular Australian values to develop a basis for an inclusive Australian democracy. The argument of the essay is that the socialist realist doctrines of the Realist Writers Group and his bush background influence his choice of voice and form, but that the politics of his work has been overlooked. This, as well as his reputation as a popular author, accounts for the unjust critical neglect of his work.' (Publisher's abstract)
The Happy Warrior John Morrison , 1984 single work biography
— Appears in: Overland , September no. 96 1984; (p. 21-24) The Happy Warrior 1987; (p. 40-50)
Documenting and Criticising Society David Carter , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 13 no. 4 1988; (p. 370-389) Always Almost Modern : Australian Print Cultures and Modernity 2013; (p. 167-185)
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Subjects:
  • Urban,
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
Settings:
  • 1930s
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