1.0: Blog's Title: PART VI. On Colonial / Post-Colonial Australian Literary And Dramatic Texts: Notes By Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, Circa June 2023 To July 2023.
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2.0: Henry Handel Richardson, Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, 3 January 1870, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to: 20 March 1946 (aged 76), Hastings, East Sussex, England; Ethel Richardson married the linguist, John George Robertson, 1867-1933, who published: A History Of German Literature, circa 1902, circa 1931, G.P. Putnam's Sons; Schiller After A Century, circa 1905, W. Blackwood And Sons, Milton's Fame On The Continent, circa 1908. Ethel Richardson is considered a serious literary figure on an international level, that is, amid an extensive collection of "Australian yarns", viz. narratives of the following genre categpries: A. pioneer / the land, B. convict, C. bush-ranger, D. gold-rush, or E. nostalgia tales, of which, Ethel Richardson's The Fortunes Of Richard Mahony, circa 1930, elevates the last two categories to the literary level. Four of her titles are listed directly beneath, with a critical study on her work, the fifth.
2.1: Maurice Guest, circa 1908; A.
London: Heinemann, hard-back and paper-back, 562 pages; B. 1 January 2016, Skyhorse Publishing, paper-back 564 pages, 13.97 x 3.05 x 20.96 centimeters, ISBN-10 1634505077, ISBN-13: 978-1634505079; C. Australian Gutenberg Project, e-book number: e00089.html; first posted: 2015, most recent up-date: 2015.
2.2: The Getting Of Wisdom, circa 1910; A. circa 1910, first edition, Heinemann, Britain; Duffield, United States of America, hard-back and paper-back, 274 pages, ISBN-10: 0-435-12051-4, OCLC: 5913890; B. Series: Text Classics, 22 August 2012, The Text Publishing Company, paper-back, 296 pages, 1.9 x 12.9 x 19.8 centimeters, ISBN-13: 9781922079404, ISBN-10: 1922079405; C. adapted for film, circa 1977, directed by Bruce Beresford, from a screen-play by Eleanor Witcombe.
2.3: The Fortunes Of Richard Mahony, circa 1930: comprising the novels: Australia Felix, circa 1917, The Way Home, circa 1925 and Ultima Thule, circa 1929: Awarded the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for 1929; A. circa 1930, London: William Heinemann Limited, 970 pages; B. 1 June 2012, Allen & Unwin, imprint: A&U House Of Books, 916 pages, ISBN-13: 9781743312391.
2.4: The Young Cosima, circa 1939; A. circa 1939, London: Heinemann, 337 pages, 19 centimeters, National Australian Library number: 951440; Notes proof copy: library's manuscript, 133 copy corrected in author's hand; B.
2 March 2005, Australian Scholarly Publishing, paper-back, 386 pages, ISBN-10: 1740970543, ISBN-13: 978-1740970549.
2.5: Henry Handel Richardson; A Critical Study, circa 1985, by Karen McLeod, Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0-52130-304-0.
3.0: William Hay, William Gosse Hay, 17 November 1875, Adelaide, to: 21 March 1945, Victor Harbor—William Hay lived a domestic life, but allegedly tragically died fighting-off a bush-fire that consumed his home. Unsurprisingly, William Hay's celebrated texts in his life-time have no further, post-humous editions: the prevalent African-Asian monopolisation of Australian publishing and culture is exemplified by the neglect of William Hay's texts being re-published. There are five of his texts listed directly beneath.
3.1: Captain Quadring, circa 1917; A.
circa 1912, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 336 pages, 20 centimeters, National
Australian Library number: 2478207; B. circa 1917, Boston: Dana Estes And Company Publishers, viii, 336 pages.
3.2: The Escape Of The Notorious Sir William Heans (And The Mystery Of Mr. Daunt), circa 1918; A. circa 1918, first edition, London: George Allen And Unwin Limited, 416 pages; B. circa 2001, Sydney: University of Sydney Library, Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service "SETIS", National Australian Library number: 3767848.
3.3: An Australian Rip Van Winkle And Other Pieces: Being A Sketch-Book After The Style Of Washington Irving, circa 1921; A. London: George Allen And Unwin, 199 pages, 19 centimeters, National Australian Library number: 1758134; B. 27 May 2018, Trieste Publishing, 212 pages, paper-back, 23.39 x 15.6 x 1.14 centimeters, ISBN-13: 9780649111923, ISBN-10: 0649111923.
3.4: Strabane Of The Mulberry Hills: The Story Of A Tasmanian Lake In 1841, circa 1929; A. London: George Allen And Unwin, 414 pages, 19 centimeters, National Australian Library number: 1759384.
3.5: The Mystery Of Alfred Doubt: Being The Adventure Of A Retired Statesman: A Novel, circa 1935; A. circa 1937, London: George Allen And Unwin, 319 pages, 19 centimeters, National Australian Library number:
1758359.
4.0: C.E.W. Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, 18 November 1879 to 30 August 1968, usually identified as C.E.W. Bean, was an historian and an Australian official war correspondent and a primary advocate for establishing the Australian War Memorial "AWM" at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
4.1: In Your Hands, Australians, circa 1918; A. circa 1919, second edition, London: Cassell and Company, 95 pages, 22 centimeters, National Australian Library identifier: 726305—the text, viz. the National Library's Whelan 63 copy was exhibited: "Keepsakes: Australians And The Great War", National Library of Australia, 26 November 2014 to 19 July 2015.
4.2: Official History Of Australia In The War Of 1914–1918—the 12-volumed text was published between circa 1920 and circa 1942: the first seven volumes cover the Australian Imperial Force and the other volumes cover the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force at Rabaul, the Royal Australian Navy, the Australian Flying Corps and the home front; the final volume is a photographic record; Accession Number: AWMOHWW1, Library of the Australian War Memorial, Published Collection—these volumes are listed directly beneath from points 4.3 to 4.14:
4.3: Volume I. The Story Of Anzac: The First Phase, circa 1935, by C.E.W. Bean;
4.4: Volume II. The Story Of Anzac: from 4 May 1915 To The Evacuation, circa 1921, by C.E.W. Bean;
4.5: Volume III. The Australian Imperial Force in France circa 1916, circa 1924, by C.E.W. Bean;
4.6: Volume IV. The Australian Imperial Force in France: 1917, circa 1929, by C.E.W. Bean;
4.7: Volume V. The Australian Imperial Force in France: December 1917 – May 1918, circa 1933, by C.E.W. Bean;
4.8: Volume VI. The Australian Imperial Force in France: May 1918 – The Armistice, circa 1937, by C.E.W. Bean;
4.9: Volume VII. The Australian Imperial Force In Sinai And Palestine: 1914 – 1918, circa 1942, by C.E.W. Bean;
4.10: Volume VIII. The Australian Flying Corps: 1914 – 1918, circa 1923, by H.S. Gullett;
4.11: Volume IX. The Royal Australian Navy: 1914 – 1918, circa 1923, by Frederic Morley Cutlack;
4.12: Volume X., The Australians At Rabaul, circa 1928, by Arthur W. Jose;
4.13: Volume XI. Australia During The War, circa 1927, by Seaforth Simpson Mackenzie;
4.14: Volume XII. A Photographic Record Of The War, circa 1936, by Ernest Scott.
Figure I. C.E.W. Bean Working, circa 1933, Australian War Memorial, image: A05389, a photo that shows C.E.W. Bean working on official files in his Victoria Barracks office during the writing of the Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918.
5.0: Sumner Locke, Helena Sumner Locke, 4 July 1881 Sandgate, Queensland, Australia, to: 18 October 1917 (aged 36), Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia: six of her texts are listed directly beneath, with dramas and novels—her texts have experienced similar publishing neglect as to William Hay's texts.
5.1: The Vicissitudes Of Vivienne, circa 1908;
5.2: A Martyr To Principle, circa 1909—written in collaboration with Stanley McKay;
5.3: Skeeter Farm Takes A Spell, circa 1915—with illustrations by Lionel Lindsay; A. circa 1916, Sydney: New South Wales, Bookstall, 177 pages, illustrated, 19 centimeters, National Australian Library identifier: 1836872.
5.4: Samaritan Mary, circa 1916—Sumner Locke's best known work; A. circa 1916, New York: Henry Holt And Company, with illustrations by James O'Chaplin, 340 pages, 20 centimeters,National Australian Library identifier:3582575; B. 24 August 2018, Forgotten Books, paper-back, 356 pages, 15.24 x 2.06 x 22.86 centimeter, ISBN-10: 1331621658, ISBN-13: 978-1331621652.
5.5: Mum Dawson, Boss, circa 1917
—staged by Bert Bailey;
5.6: In Memoriam, circa 1921; A. circa 1921, Melbourne: Sydney J. Endacott, Canterbury, Victoria: Galleon Press printer, 22 pages, 2 leaves of plates, 19 centimeters, National Australian Library identifier: 2448689; B. 1 January 1921, S.J. Endacott, 216 pages, ASIN: B0008BRZW2.
6.0: Frederic Manning, 22 July 1882, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, to: 22 February 1935 (aged 52) Hampstead, London, England; pseudonym: Private 19022.
6.1: The Middle Parts Of Fortune, circa 1916; A. circa 1916, Somme & Ancre, (with an introduction by Michael Howard), Peter Davies, ISBN-10: 0-432-09081-9.
6.2: The Life Of Sir William White, circa 1923; A. London: John Murray, 556 pages.
6.3: Her Privates We, circa 1930; A.
circa 1930, London: Peter Davies, ISBN-10: 1-85242-717-5; B. circa 1999, Serpent's Tail, introduction by William Boyd, ISBN-10: 1-85242-717-5.
7.0: Jack McLaren, 13 October 1884, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, to May 16, 1954 (aged 69) Brighton, Sussex, England; pseudonym: Top McNorth.
7.1: My Crowded Solitude, circa 1926—describes a period of 8 years from 1911 on Cape York, where Jack McLaren establishes a coconut plantation and records the native wild-life and McLaren’s interactions with a tribe of nomadic Indigenous Australians; may have been influenced by Walden; Or, Life in the Woods, circa 1854 by the American
transcendentalist, Henry David Thoreau; A. 9 September 2009, International Business Publications United States Of America, paper-back, 150 pages, ISBN-10: 1438791127, ISBN-13: 978-1438791128; B. a Project Gutenberg of Australia e-book number: 0605611h.html, first posted: August 2006, date most recently updated: August 2019.8.0: Ion Llewellyn Idriess, 20 September 1889, to: 6 June 1979: wrote more than fifty titles during a 43 years period between 1927 and 1969; Ion Idriess's titles were published by Angus and Robertson, eight of which are listed directly beneath.
8.1: Madman's Island, circa 1927—the fictional version and Ion Idriess's first book; published by Cornstalk Publications; A. circa 1954, Angus And Robertson, Illustrated with black and white drawings and a map, vii, 238 pages, 19 centimeters.8.2: Madman's Island, circa 1938—the non-fiction version.8.3: Lasseter's Last Ride, circa 1931—Lasseter's Reef gold discovery.8.4: Flynn Of The Inland, circa 1932—the tale of John Flynn, founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service.8.5: The Cattle King, circa 1936;8.6: Forty Fathoms Deep, circa 1937; A. 343 pages8.7: Man Tracks, circa 1935; A.
Angus And Robertson.8.8: Gold Dust And Ashes, circa 1933—the story of the New Guinea gold-fields at Bulolo.
9.0: Frank Dalby Daviso, 23 June 1893, to: 24 May 1970.
9.1: Man-Shy, circa 1931; A. circa 1956, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 117 pages.9.2: The Wells Of Beersheba, An Epic Of The Australian Light Horse 1914-1918, circa 1933—with illustrations by Will Mahoney; A.
9.3: Dusty, circa 1946; A. Dusty: The Story Of A Sheep Dog, circa 1946, second edition, Angus and Robertson, 242 pages.
10.0: Dorothy Wall, 12 January 1894 Kilbirnie, New Zealand, to: 21 January 1942 (aged 48) Cremorne, New South Wales, Australia.
10.1: Blinky Bill: The Quaint Little Australian, circa 1933; A. circa 1933, first edition, Sydney: Angus And Robertson Limited, hard-cover, vii, 72 pages.10.2: Blinky Bill Grows Up, circa 1934; A. a Project Gutenberg e-book number: 0400591h.html, first posted: July 2004, most recently up-dated: July 2004.
10.3: Blinky Bill And Nutsy, circa 1937; A. circa 1937, Sydney: Angus And Robertson, 115 pages, illustrated, 25 centimeters, National Australian Library identifier: 933394.
11.0: M. Barnard Eldershaw was the pseudonym used by the twentieth-century Australian literary collaborators Marjorie Barnard circa 1897 to circa 1987 and Flora Eldershaw circa 1897 to circa 1956.
11.1: A House Is Built, circa 1928—
Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw wrote this first collaborative novel in response to an advertisement for The Bulletin prize and won the prize circa 1928, shared with Katharine Susannah Prichard's Coonardoo; A. Adelaide: Rigby, circa 1978 reprint of 1929, 304 pages, 18 centimeters, ISBN-10: 0727009702, National Australia Library identifier: 2855004; B. circa 1972, Lloyd O'Neill, Hawthorn, Victoria, ISBN 10: 0855503289, ISBN 13: 9780855503284.
11.2: Green Memory, circa 1931; A.
circa 1931, first edition, London: George G. Harrap, 288 pages.11.3: Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow, circa 1947; A. circa 1983, Virago, ISBN 10: 0860683834, ISBN 13: 9780860683834.
12.0: Leonard "Lennie" Waldemar Lower,
24 September 1903, Dubbo, to: 19 July 1947.
12.1: Here's Luck, circa 1930; A. [circa 1930], 1982 printing of the original, Sydney: Angus And Robertson, 1 volume, ISBN-10: 0207146675, National Australia Library identifier: 711441;
B. circa 2004, Sydney University Press, 161 pages, ISBN-10: 192089747X, ISBN-13: 9781920897475.12.2: Here's Another, circa 1932; A.
circa 1932, Sydney: Frank C. Johnson And Company, 191 pages, 19 centimeters, National Australia Library identifier: 801968; B. 3 August 2004, Series: Sydney University Press Classics, paper-back, 102 pages, 20.7 x 14.9 x 0.5 centimeters, ISBN-13: 9781920897468, ISBN-10: 1920897461.
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13.4: There are 13 main points listed within this blog, with the sub-points as noted here: 1.0: this blog's title; 2.0–2.5: Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson; 3.0–3.4: William Hay; 4.0–4.14: C.E.W. Bean; 5.0–5.5: Helena Sumner Locke; 6.0–6.3: Frederic Manning; 7.0–7.1: Jack McLaren; 8.0–8.8: Ion Llewellyn Idriess; 9.0–9.3:
Frank Dalby Daviso; 10.0–10.3: Dorothy Wall; 11.0–11.3: M. Barnard Eldershaw; 12.0–12.2: Leonard "Lennie" Waldemar Lower; 13.0–13.4: this blog's legal disclaimer■