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An All Consuming Passion : Origins, Modernity, and the Australian Life of Georgiana Molloy
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Dedication: For Ned Ludd. Not the first, not the last.
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'Paper Talk' : Testimony and Forgetting in South West Western Australia
2017
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— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 17 no. 1 2017;'In 2001 I travelled to south-west Western Australia to research my first novel, the springboard for which was nineteenth-century botanist Georgiana Molloy who had emigrated from England to Augusta with her husband John Molloy in 1829. My friend and I pulled up at Wonnerup House, the homestead of the Laymans, who had lived with the Molloys at Augusta before moving to Wonnerup. We wandered through cold, square rooms, then out into the sunshine. This was the place, a small placard read, where George Layman was speared by Gayware, a Wardandi Nyungar. Our reconnaissance complete, we sat on the grass before the house, unpacked some baguettes and smeared them with cheese. We were impervious to the violence that once arose from those smooth, glossy lawns.' (Introduction)
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1994
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— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , April/May vol. 9 no. 2 1994; (p. 9)
— Review of An All Consuming Passion : Origins, Modernity, and the Australian Life of Georgiana Molloy 1994 single work biography
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Untitled
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , April/May vol. 9 no. 2 1994; (p. 9)
— Review of An All Consuming Passion : Origins, Modernity, and the Australian Life of Georgiana Molloy 1994 single work biography -
'Paper Talk' : Testimony and Forgetting in South West Western Australia
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 17 no. 1 2017;'In 2001 I travelled to south-west Western Australia to research my first novel, the springboard for which was nineteenth-century botanist Georgiana Molloy who had emigrated from England to Augusta with her husband John Molloy in 1829. My friend and I pulled up at Wonnerup House, the homestead of the Laymans, who had lived with the Molloys at Augusta before moving to Wonnerup. We wandered through cold, square rooms, then out into the sunshine. This was the place, a small placard read, where George Layman was speared by Gayware, a Wardandi Nyungar. Our reconnaissance complete, we sat on the grass before the house, unpacked some baguettes and smeared them with cheese. We were impervious to the violence that once arose from those smooth, glossy lawns.' (Introduction)
- Botany, Botany area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
- ca. 1800-1850
- Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia,
