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Author:agent Katharine Susannah Prichard

Issue Details: First known date: 1926... 1926 The Curse

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A menacing weed known as "the curse" begins to take over the hut of the strange and isolated Alf.

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y Art in Australia no. 17 (3rd Series) September 1926 Z622240 1926 periodical issue 1926
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1926
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pg. 22-26
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y Kiss On the Lips and Other Stories Katharine Susannah Prichard , London : Jonathan Cape , 1932 Z44513 1932 selected work short story London : Jonathan Cape , 1932
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1932
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y Centenary Gift Book Frances Fraser (editor), Nettie Palmer (editor), Melbourne : Robertson and Mullens , 1934 Z816414 1934 anthology short story poetry extract essay drama Melbourne : Robertson and Mullens , 1934
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1934
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pg. 36-38
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y West Coast Stories : An Anthology Henrietta Drake-Brockman (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1959 Z449288 1959 anthology short story extract Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1959
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1959
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y On Strenuous Wings: A Half-Century of Selected Writings from the Works of Katharine Susannah Prichard Katharine Susannah Prichard , Joan Williams (editor), Berlin : Seven Seas , 1965 Z544345 1965 selected work short story extract poetry prose drama criticism Berlin : Seven Seas , 1965
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1965
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pg. 123-127
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y Happiness : Selected Short Stories Katharine Susannah Prichard , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1967 Z548913 1967 selected work short story Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1967
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1967
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pg. 17-20
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y Tribute : Selected Stories of Katharine Susannah Prichard Katharine Susannah Prichard , Ric Throssell (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1988 Z192622 1988 selected work short story St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1988
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1988
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pg. 1-7
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y The Penguin Best Australian Short Stories Mary Lord (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1991 Z307411 1991 anthology short story extract humour satire crime historical fiction (taught in 1 units) Ringwood : Penguin , 1991
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1991
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pg. 175-178
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y Katharine Susannah Prichard : Stories, Journalism and Essays Katharine Susannah Prichard , Delys Bird (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2000 Z250479 2000 selected work short story prose extract criticism St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2000
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2000
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pg. 184-187
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y The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction Ken Gelder (editor), Rachael Weaver (editor), Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2007 Z1415120 2007 anthology short story extract horror mystery science fiction historical fiction children's (taught in 7 units) Abstract
'This anthology collects the best examples of Australian gothic short stories from colonial times. Demonic bird cries, grisly corpses, ghostly women and psychotic station-owners populate a colonial landscape which is the stuff of nightmares.

'In stories by Marcus Clarke, Mary Fortune and Henry Lawson, the colonial homestead is wracked by haunted images of murder and revenge. Settlers are disoriented and traumatised as they stumble into forbidden places and explorers disappear, only to return as ghostly figures with terrible tales to tell. These compelling stories are the dark underside to the usual story of colonial progress, promise and nation-building, and reveal just how vivid the gothic imagination is at the heart of Australian fiction.' (Publication summary)
Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2007
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2007
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pg. 261-264

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Voicing and Voices in Two Australian Short Stories: 'The Hairy Man' (Henry Lawson 1907) and 'The Curse' (Katharine Susannah Prichard 1932) Denise Ginfray , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the Short Story in English , October vol. 47 no. 2006; (p. 127-142)

Tribute : Selected Stories of Katharine Susannah Prichard : Introduction Ric Throssell , 1988 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Tribute : Selected Stories of Katharine Susannah Prichard 1988; (p. ix-xxi)

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