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Old Blastus Of Bandicoot
''Old Blastus of Bandicoot'' (1931) is a novel by Australian writer Miles Franklin. Story outline The novel concerns an old pioneer squatter in the Murrumbidgee country near Canberra. The Barry and Lindsey families hold adjoining properties and are in dispute over a matrimonial disagreement. In this case one of the Lindseys has jilted the eldest daughter of Old Blastus. Critical reception After acknowledging that Franklin was most probably the author of the "Brent of Bin Bin" novels, a reviewer in ''The Brisbane Courier'' concluded: "''Old Blastus'' has distinct merit as a novel, but its outstanding significance lies in the brilliant searchlight that it throws across an important period of pioneering in an old district in New South Wales, that happy period before the motor car had begun to dispossess the horse of his kingdom. ''Old Blastus of Bandicoot'' is a fine book, and it is likely to become an Australian classic, ranking side by side with Brent of Bin Bin and Henry Kingsl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Franklin
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 187919 September 1954), known as Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel '' My Brilliant Career'', published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, ''All That Swagger'', was not published until 1936. She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers' organisations. She has had a long-lasting impact on Australian literary life through her endowment of a major annual prize for literature about "Australian Life in any of its phases", the Miles Franklin Award. Her impact was further recognised in 2013 with the creation of the Stella Prize, awarded annually for the best work of literature by an Australian woman. Life and career Franklin was born at Talbingo, New South Wales, and grew up in the Brindabe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic ( Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back To Bool Bool
''Back to Bool Bool'' (1931) is a novel by Australian writer Miles Franklin. It was originally published under the author's pseudonym "Brent of Bin Bin". Story outline While not a sequel to the earlier "Brent of Bin Bin" novels, this book's setting is again in the Monaro/Murrumbidgee area of New South Wales, though the time period is now the late 1920s. Several members of the Poole-Mazere-Healey-Breenan clan are returning to Australia, and their home town of Book Book, by sea. The novel follows the various characters as they return to life in Australia and provides a commentary on the differences between Australian and European life. Critical reception In a major review of the novel in ''The Telegraph'' (Brisbane) literary critic Nettie Palmer states up-front: "In Brent of Bin Bin's first books, ''Up the Country'' and ''Ten Creeks Run'', the pioneers were struggling with nature in its virgin state. In the new book, ''Back to Bool Bool'', mankind in Australia is struggling w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bring The Monkey
''Bring the Monkey : A Light Novel'' (1933) is a crime/mystery novel by Australian writer Miles Franklin. Story outline This is a mystery novel involving a murder and the theft of jewels from an English country mansion, Tattingwood Hall. Critical reception In ''The West Australian'' a reviewer noted: "It is something more than a mystery story, however, and might be as aptly described as a highly amusing and clever satire on certain aspects of modern English and American social life, in which a wealthy film artist with an avid love of publicity and an amateur aviator's craze of flying stunts are satirised with rare subtlety. The part which a monkey plays in the story gives it a bizarre flavour and heightens the entertainment of the author's spicy narrative." While acknowledging the standard setup of the mystery in the novel a reviewer in ''The News'' (Adelaide) found that " in her handling of her story, Miss Franklin strikes a note which should arrest the interest of even the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Kingsley
Henry Kingsley (2 January 1830 – 24 May 1876) was an English novelist, brother of the better-known Charles Kingsley. He was an early exponent of muscular Christianity in an 1859 work, ''The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn''. Life Kingsley was born at Barnack Rectory, Northamptonshire, the son of the Rev. Charles Kingsley the elder and Mary, ''née'' Lucas. Charles Kingsley came of a long line of clergymen and soldiers. There were several writers in the family besides Henry and Charles, including Mary Kingsley, an explorer and writer, Charlotte Kingsley Chanter, a botanical writer and novelist, and George Kingsley, a traveller and writer. Henry Kingsley's boyhood was spent at Clovelly and Chelsea, before attending King's College School, King's College London, and Worcester College, Oxford, which he left without graduating. An opportune legacy from a relation enabled him to leave Oxford free of debt and emigrate to Australia. He arrived in Melbourne in the ''Gauntlet'' in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1931. Novels * M. Barnard Eldershaw – ''Green Memory'' * Miles Franklin ** ''Back to Bool Bool'' ** ''Old Blastus of Bandicoot'' * Jack Lindsay – ''Cressida's First Lover : A Tale of Ancient Greece'' * Alice Grant Rosman – ''The Sixth Journey'' * E. V. Timms – ''Whitehall'' * Arthur W. Upfield – '' The Sands of Windee'' Short stories * J. H. M. Abbott – ''The King's School and Other Tales for Old Boys'' * Vance Palmer – ''Separate Lives'' * Henry Handel Richardson – ''Two Studies'' Children's and Young Adult * Mary Grant Bruce – ''Bill of Billabong'' * Frank Dalby Davison – ''Man-Shy'' * Lilian Turner – ''Two Take the Road'' Poetry * Mary Gilmore – ''The Rue Tree : Poems'' * Ronald McCuaig – "Love Me and Never Leave Me" * John Shaw Neilson – "The Bard and the Lizard" * Elizabeth Riddell – " Lifesaver" * Kenneth Slessor – "Five Visio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Miles Franklin
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Australian Novels
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 – Official ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
