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Issue Details: First known date: 1967... 1967 Open Negative : An American Memoir
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This work is divided into two parts - the first, the travels of the Nolans in America and the second describes Cynthia's experiences in a New York hospital where she spent six months receiving treatment for tuberculosis.

Notes

  • Epigraph: These things I saw and part of them I Was. Aeneid. Book 2.
  • Dedication: For my mother Leila Dennison.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Macmillan ,       1967 .
      Extent: 225p.
      Description: illus., map; port
      Note/s:
      • On verso of half t.p. - 'The photograph opposite page 116, the end-papers and the painting on which the jacket design is based are by Sidney Nolan.'
      • Illustrated on lining papers.
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  • Also braille.
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Works about this Work

'I Must Be My Own Director' " Cynthia Reed, Elisabeth Lambert, and Reed & Harris, Publishers Jane Grant , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Republics of Letters : Literary Communities in Australia 2012; (p. 183-194) 'As the publishers of the avant-garde journal Angry Penguins, the small firm of Reed & Harris is well-known in the history of Australian literature. What is less well-documented is its dealings with the women writers Cynthia Reed (later Nolan) and Elizabeth Lambert. Jane Grant looks at the company's correspondence, 'a far -flung epistolary community', and traces the fortunes of Cynthia's first two novels, in order to recover these two neglected figures for Australian modernism during its most tumultuous period. (Kirkpatrick, Peter and Dixon, Robert: Introduction xvii)
Psychological Flight and Destruction Jane Grant , 2004 single work biography
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 174 2004; (p. 45-50)
Paradise, and Yet : The Writings of Cynthia Reed Nolan M. E. McGuire , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age Monthly Review , April vol. 8 no. 1 1988; (p. 3-6)
Cynthia Nolan (1908-1974) Margaret Giordano , Don Norman , 1984 single work biography
— Appears in: Tasmanian Literary Landmarks 1984; (p. 179-184)
Psychological Flight and Destruction Jane Grant , 2004 single work biography
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 174 2004; (p. 45-50)
'I Must Be My Own Director' " Cynthia Reed, Elisabeth Lambert, and Reed & Harris, Publishers Jane Grant , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Republics of Letters : Literary Communities in Australia 2012; (p. 183-194) 'As the publishers of the avant-garde journal Angry Penguins, the small firm of Reed & Harris is well-known in the history of Australian literature. What is less well-documented is its dealings with the women writers Cynthia Reed (later Nolan) and Elizabeth Lambert. Jane Grant looks at the company's correspondence, 'a far -flung epistolary community', and traces the fortunes of Cynthia's first two novels, in order to recover these two neglected figures for Australian modernism during its most tumultuous period. (Kirkpatrick, Peter and Dixon, Robert: Introduction xvii)
Cynthia Nolan (1908-1974) Margaret Giordano , Don Norman , 1984 single work biography
— Appears in: Tasmanian Literary Landmarks 1984; (p. 179-184)
Paradise, and Yet : The Writings of Cynthia Reed Nolan M. E. McGuire , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age Monthly Review , April vol. 8 no. 1 1988; (p. 3-6)
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