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Written by Richard Fotheringham. By University of Queensland Pr (Australia).
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1 comments about In Search of Steele Rudd: Author of the Classic Dad & Dave Stories.
- This book is a biography of Arthur Hoey Davis who wrote under the pseudonym of Steele Rudd. His stories "On our selection" and others in the series were the most popular publications in Australia in the early years of the twentieth century. The rural characters he created, Dad and Dave, are deeply embedded in an earlier Australian consciousness. The book documents for the first time the details of Davis's somewhat tragic life and the appropriation of his characters by others without recompense. The famous radio serial "Dad and Dave" was extremely popular in Australia. Although it used his characters, it was not written or authorised by Steele Rudd. The book reveals Davis's real understanding of the misery of the life of the small Australian "selector" despite the affection for it with which his stories are usually associated. Selectors have similarities with the situation of small landholders and the homesteaders in the USA in the nineteenth century.
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Written by Janet Frame. By George Braziller.
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No comments about Vale: Florence Syer (nee Trotter), 1916-2002. (FED).(Obituary): An article from: Australian Nursing Journal.
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By University of Queensland Pr (Australia).
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By V.C.D. Barnes].
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No comments about South Australian biographies 1980.
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Written by Frank G. Perversi. By Rosenberg Publishing.
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No comments about From Tobruk to Borneo: Memoirs of an Italian Aussie Volunteer.
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By Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
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Written by Beryl Hackner and Dot Collard. By Magabala Books.
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Written by Geoff Hocking. By Lothian Books.
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Written by Stephanie de Montalk. By Victoria University Press.
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1 comments about The Unquiet World: The Life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk.
- My response to this excellent biography/memoir about New Zealand born poet, polemicist, private printer, pagan and pretender to the Polish throne, Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk, by his cousin NZ poet Stephanie de Montalk, is best conveyed by excerpts from the two following reviews. Michael King, writing in The Dominion (NZ) 17 November 2001, said, 'Every once in a rare while, a subject and an author admirably suited to each other connect and the result is a book of outstanding interest and merit. Unqiet World is one such volume ...like many poets, she writes prose very well. This quality is yet another that lifts this book from the domain of biography into that of literature.' And Ruth Brown, writing in the Times Literary Supplement, 27 December 2002, observed: 'Stephanie de Montalk succeeds in bringing her implauible relative to plalusible life. His various exploits on a worldwide stage are set in a meticulously researched analysis of the context of their times, and in openly acknowledging a complex and shifting personal reslationship with her quarry, she charts the subjectivity that must go into the making of any biography.'
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