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y separately published work icon Behold, New Holland! : (A Story of Early Western Australia) single work   novel   historical fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 1940... 1940 Behold, New Holland! : (A Story of Early Western Australia)
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Notes

  • Dedication: Dedicated to the old colonists and those who have fought and to-day [sic] are fighting to retain the freedom of our great nation.

  • Author's note: '...Great hardships were faced to colonise this beautiful State [sic] we accept so casually to-day [sic], but those pioneers are not forgotten. Readers have possibly stood to look on the proud city of Perth and allow their minds to fly back to the hopes, the joys, the distresses and the agonies that formed the travail of its birth; to see full-skirted ladies endeavouring to retain something of culture under adverse circumstances and tight-trousered gentlemen attacking a grim job heroically. These people built a nation.'

  • Prequel to New Holland Heritage (1941).
  • Serialised and broadcast by ABC radio'. (Source: Helen Crompton 'A Leading Spirit' The West Australian 31 July 1999)

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y separately published work icon New Holland Heritage : (An Early West Australian Romance) Rix Weaver , Perth : Paterson's Press , 1941 Z962519 1941 single work novel historical fiction romance 'In Behold New Holland Mrs Weaver followed the fortunes of the Mabie family who came to Western Australia as pioneers of the new settlement at Swan River. In New Holland Heritage she continues the study of the family through the Australind period and into the years when Western Australia became a convict settlement.' (Source: J. S. Battye, Foreword)
y separately published work icon Beyond Cooralong : (A Story of Early Western Australia) Rix Weaver , Perth : C. H. Pitman , 1945 Z962527 1945 single work novel historical fiction romance

The scene of the story moves from the lovely countryside of England to the Timber Industry of Western Australia. An industry the little colony was battling to establish under great adversity. The very pursuit of success in this field brings together two young people whose lives would have lain far apart. This is a throbbling romance of love and a fight for ideals that were in advance of the general thought of the day. (Source: dustjacket)
y separately published work icon Theirs to Bestow Rix Weaver , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1979 Z962547 1979 single work novel historical fiction
Taking Up a Grant Rix Weaver , 1979 extract novel (Behold, New Holland! : (A Story of Early Western Australia))
— Appears in: Wide Domain : Western Australian Themes and Images 1979; (p. 43-44)
'So This Is New Holland' Rix Weaver , 1979 extract novel (Behold, New Holland! : (A Story of Early Western Australia))
— Appears in: Wide Domain : Western Australian Themes and Images 1979; (p. 43)
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Last amended 30 Apr 2010 11:10:11
Subjects:
  • 1830s
Settings:
  • Perth, Western Australia,
  • Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia,
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