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Southern Steel (novel)
''Southern Steel'' (1953) is a novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack. Story outline Set in Newcastle, New South Wales, during World War II, the story concerns three brothers who all work at varying levels of a local steel maker. See also * 1953 in Australian literature This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1953. Books * Charmian Clift and George Johnston – ''The Big Chariot'' * Dymphna Cusack – ''Southern Steel'' * Eleanor Dark – ''No ... References Novels by Dymphna Cusack 1953 Australian novels {{1950s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dymphna Cusack
Ellen Dymphna Cusack AM (21 September 1902 – 19 October 1981) was an Australian writer and playwright. Personal life Born in Wyalong, New South Wales, Cusack was educated at Saint Ursula's College, Armidale, New South Wales and graduated from the University of Sydney with an honours degree in arts and a diploma in Education. She worked as a teacher until she retired in 1944 for health reasons. Her illness was confirmed in 1978 as multiple sclerosis. She died at Manly, New South Wales on 19 October 1981. Career Cusack wrote twelve novels (two of which were collaborations), eleven plays, three travel books, two children's books and one non-fiction book. Her collaborative novels were ''Pioneers on Parade'' (1939) with Miles Franklin, and '' Come In Spinner'' (1951) with Florence James. The play '' Red Sky at Morning'' was filmed in 1944, starring Peter Finch. The biography ''Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid'', to which Cusack wrote an introduction and helped the author wri ... [...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] |
Say No To Death
''Say No to Death'' (1951) is a novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack.It was originally published in Australia by Heinemann, and later in the US by William Morrow under the title ''The Sun in My Hands''. Story outline Set in Sydney following the war, the novel follows the medical journey of Jan, a young woman suffering from tuberculosis, and her struggles to gain any help from a Government health service struggling for funds. Critical reception A reviewer in ''The Age'' was impressed by the novel: "'A novel built entirely around a social injustice is a rarity, but with competence and courage Dymphna Cusack, in ''Say No to Death'', has presented the subject of the tuberculosis patient and, in a story of heroism, pathos and great sympathy, put the case for the sick civilian at the mercy of a Government — a Government and a people — who respond to the needs of the scourge of war so much more readily than to the scourge of illness...This is a book well worth reading, as mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sun In Exile
''The Sun in Exile'' (1955) is a novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack. Story outline The narrator of the story, Alexandra Pendlebury, is a middle-aged spinster who writes travel books. On a sea voyage from Australia to England she shares a cabin with Vicky, a young Australian artist. All is well on the voyage until the ship docks in Jamaica and picks up a number of passengers. The West Indians bring out the inherent racism in a number of the white Australian travellers though Vicky becomes rather attached to Lance Olumide. In England Alexandra and Vicky maintain their friendship and they are joined by Lance when he and Vicky become engaged. Critical reception Helen Frizell in ''The Australian Women's Weekly'' was in no doubt about her feelings for the book: "'Dymphna Cusack, in beautifully written prose, shows how bigotry and unkindness will eventually damp down the fires of their love and ambitions, so that in the end even the hearths of their hearts will be cold. Dy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1953. Books * Charmian Clift and George Johnston (novelist), George Johnston – ''The Big Chariot'' * Dymphna Cusack – ''Southern Steel (novel), Southern Steel'' * Eleanor Dark – ''No Barrier'' * Helen Heney – ''Dark Moon (novel), Dark Moon'' * T. A. G. Hungerford – ''Riverslake'' * Eve Langley – ''Wild Australia'' * Jack Lindsay (writer), Jack Lindsay – ''Betrayed Spring : A Novel of the British Way'' * Ruth Park – ''A Power of Roses'' * Nevil Shute – ''In the Wet'' * Kylie Tennant – ''The Joyful Condemned'' * E. V. Timms – ''The Scarlet Frontier'' * Arthur Upfield – ''Murder Must Wait'' Short stories * A. Bertram Chandler – "Jetsam" * T. Inglis Moore – ''Australia Writes: An Anthology'' (edited) * Stephen Murray-Smith – ''The Tracks We Travel : Australian Short Stories'' (edited) * Colin Roderick – ''Australian Round-Up : Stories from 1790 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Dymphna Cusack
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] |
