(Courtesy OCAL, via clker.com) Another post in my Monday Musings subseries called Trove Treasures, in which I share stories or comments, serious or funny, that I come across during my Trove travels. Today's story popped up during my research for a post on Beatrice Grimshaw for the Australian Women Writers blog. It stunned me, and … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (16), Garrulity and Gracelessness in AusLit
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Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (15), What Australia read in 1945
(Courtesy OCAL, via clker.com) Another post in my Monday Musings subseries called Trove Treasures, in which I share stories or comments, serious or funny, that I come across during my Trove travels. Today's story is longer than those I have mostly shared, but given it's an annual recap of 1945, exactly 80 years ago, I've … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (15), What Australia read in 1945
Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (14), Louise Mack, the “colonial”
(Courtesy OCAL, via clker.com) Early in 2023, I created a Monday Musings subseries called Trove Treasures, in which I share stories or comments, serious or funny, that I come across during my Trove travels. Having posted on her two sisters the last two Mondays, I thought it might be fun to round off the series with … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (14), Louise Mack, the “colonial”
Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (13), American scholar on Australian culture (1952)
(Courtesy OCAL, via clker.com) While researching Trove for April's 1952 Year Club, I came across some articles about an American Fulbright scholar's critique of Australian culture, and thought it a worthy topic for my occasional Trove Treasures series. The scholar was John Hough, who was Professor of Classics at Colorado State University, and he was … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (13), American scholar on Australian culture (1952)
Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (12), A rare humorous novel
I was unsure about whether to make this post part of my Trove Treasures or Forgotten Writers series, but Wikipedia tells me that in 2006, the historian John Hirst, writing in The Monthly, included this author's book, The colonial Australians, in a brief list of the best Australian history books of all-time. That probably means … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (12), A rare humorous novel
Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (11), A short list of masterpieces of fiction
Today's post is not especially Australian, but it was published in Australian newspapers as a recommended list of "masterpieces" or classics for Australians to read. It is in that sense that I am posting it in my Monday Musings series! The list was published in 1910, with the heading "Best novels: A short list of … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (11), A short list of masterpieces of fiction
Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (10), On short novels
As I've said before in this series, not all the "treasures" I find, particularly those from the 19th and early 20th centuries, are specifically Australian, but I justify them because in those colonial and early post-colonial times English content tended to reign supreme. This post was inspired by my serendipitously coming across an article praising … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (10), On short novels
Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (9), Pro-novel reading, early 20th century
Last week, in my Trove Treasures series, I shared some ideas published in the 19th century arguing for reading novels. Now, I am sharing some from the first decades of the 20th century. The articles range from 1903 to 1928, with many, again, coming from London. Diversion and instruction Two papers - Brisbane's The Telegraph … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (9), Pro-novel reading, early 20th century
Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (8), Pro-novel reading, 19th century
Édouard Manet, The Reading (1865-1873), Manet's son reading in the background. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Continuing my Trove Treasures series, I am turning this week to some of the discussions I found about the value of novel-reading. Three months ago, I shared some of the arguments made against novel-reading, but in fact, in the … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (8), Pro-novel reading, 19th century
Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (7), What police read
Number 7 in my Trove Treasures series was inspired by a little piece that appeared in Sydney's Daily Telegraph on 6 December 1946. It was titled, "Men join police force after reading novels". Naturally, I was intrigued. What novels, for example? The story's subject was one Constable J. Simons who had just resigned the police … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (7), What police read
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