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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Ophelia's Fan
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'Nineteenth-century Irish actress Harriet Smithson, the woman who brought Shakespeare to Paris and made the role of Ophelia her own, is the muse for this stunning novel.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Dedication: For Rupert
  • Epigraph: At once he took his Muse and dipt her
    Right in the middle of the Scripture (W. Hazlitt, Liber Amoris: or The New Pygmalion)
  • The aspiration of the mind is after the highest excellence, its longings are after immortality: its performance is generally as nothing; its triumph but for a moment! (Oxberry's Prefatory Remarks to Jane Shore: A Tragedy by Nicholas Rowe)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2004 .
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      Extent: 341p.
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliography
      ISBN: 1741144442
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       W. W. Norton ,       2004 .
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      Extent: 351p.p.
      ISBN: 9780393059250, 0393059251
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       W. W. Norton ,       2005 .
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      Extent: 351p.p.
      ISBN: 9780393327663, 0393327663
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Works about this Work

With True Love Showers Kirsty Sangster , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , October vol. 14 no. 8 2004; (p. 33)
— Review of Ophelia's Fan Christine Balint , 2004 single work novel
Repeat Performances Carolyn Tetaz , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 265 2004; (p. 52-53)
— Review of Ophelia's Fan Christine Balint , 2004 single work novel ; Always East Michael Jacobson , 2004 single work novel
A Shining Actress in Her Own Soft Light Christine Balint , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 11 September 2004; (p. 3)
— Review of Ophelia's Fan Christine Balint , 2004 single work novel
Creative Graduates Go for Romance Kathy Hunt , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 September 2004; (p. 12)
— Review of Ophelia's Fan Christine Balint , 2004 single work novel ; Tree of Angels Penny Sumner , 2004 single work novel
A Premium Blend Peter Pierce , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 24 August vol. 122 no. 6435 2004; (p. 65)
— Review of Ophelia's Fan Christine Balint , 2004 single work novel ; Spirit Wrestlers Thomas Shapcott , 2004 single work novel ; Rhubarb Craig Silvey , 2004 single work novel ; Furies John Charalambous , 2004 single work novel ; The Gift of Speed Steven Carroll , 2004 single work novel
A Premium Blend Peter Pierce , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 24 August vol. 122 no. 6435 2004; (p. 65)
— Review of Ophelia's Fan Christine Balint , 2004 single work novel ; Spirit Wrestlers Thomas Shapcott , 2004 single work novel ; Rhubarb Craig Silvey , 2004 single work novel ; Furies John Charalambous , 2004 single work novel ; The Gift of Speed Steven Carroll , 2004 single work novel
Creative Graduates Go for Romance Kathy Hunt , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 September 2004; (p. 12)
— Review of Ophelia's Fan Christine Balint , 2004 single work novel ; Tree of Angels Penny Sumner , 2004 single work novel
A Shining Actress in Her Own Soft Light Christine Balint , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 11 September 2004; (p. 3)
— Review of Ophelia's Fan Christine Balint , 2004 single work novel
Repeat Performances Carolyn Tetaz , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 265 2004; (p. 52-53)
— Review of Ophelia's Fan Christine Balint , 2004 single work novel ; Always East Michael Jacobson , 2004 single work novel
With True Love Showers Kirsty Sangster , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , October vol. 14 no. 8 2004; (p. 33)
— Review of Ophelia's Fan Christine Balint , 2004 single work novel
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Last amended 15 Apr 2021 09:20:01
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    Ireland,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • c
    England,
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    c
    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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    France,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1800-1899
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