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1 Transforming Jane Eyre : Its Australian Stage Adaptations Sue Thomas , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , 31 October vol. 30 no. 3 2015;

'The history of Australian stage adaptations of Jane Eyre illustrates the shifting fortunes and reach of melodrama and its conventions, as they become psychologised over the course of the twentieth century. The earliest adaptation of Jane Eyre written for the Australian stage was Rose Evans’s Quite Alone (1872). Working within highly melodramatic codes, Quite Alone portrayed ‘hate, sympathy, love, and finally marriage’ (‘Miss Rose Evans’s “Quite Alone”’). Two creative engagements by Australian writers have reached wide international audiences: Helen Jerome’s 1936 stage adaptation, published in 1937, was the most performed and successful adaptation of the twentieth century; the chamber opera with music by British composer Michael Berkeley and libretto by Australian writer David Malouf premiered in 2000, and has been performed in Britain, Australia and the U.S. In adapting a three-volume novel within the demands of contemporary staging, both Jerome and Malouf explore the nuances of a particular affect in the relationship between Jane and Rochester. In Jerome’s 1936 stage adaptation the affect is passion, signalled in the published play’s subtitle A Drama of Passion; in Malouf’s libretto, the predominant affect is sympathy. Jerome’s adaptation struggles to mesh melodrama, realism and more modernist elements in her rereading of the novel for the stage, whilst Malouf and Berkeley’s chamber opera is late modernist. I place the adaptations in a broader history of creative engagements with Jane Eyre, drawing out intermedial influences on the staging of Jerome’s and Malouf’s adaptations in particular.'

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1 A Balance of Stories : The Making of a Discipline Sue Thomas , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southern Postcolonialisms: The Global South and the 'New' Literary Representations 2009; (p. 3-16)
1 Untitled Sue Thomas , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , November vol. 18 no. 42 2003; (p. 329-331)

— Review of The City of Sealions Eva Sallis , 2002 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon New Literatures Review no. 39 Summer Sue Thomas (editor), Leela Gandhi (editor), 2003 Z1065967 2003 periodical issue
1 White Gothic in Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, and The Albatross Muff Sue Thomas , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Cultural History , no. 21 2002; (p. 89-96, notes 122-124)
1 1 y separately published work icon England through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction Ann Blake , Sue Thomas , Leela Gandhi , Basingstoke : Palgrave , 2001 Z937814 2001 multi chapter work criticism
1 Adulterous Liaisons : Jean Rhys, Stella Bowen and Feminist Reading Sue Thomas , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , June-July no. 22 2001;
1 Around 1988 Sue Thomas , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Meridian , May vol. 15 no. 1 1996; (p. 138-141)

— Review of Along the Faultlines : Sex, Race and Nation in Australian Women's Writing - 1880s-1930s Susan Sheridan , 1995 selected work criticism
1 Positioning Sally Morgan Sue Thomas , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Meridian , October vol. 12 no. 2 1993; (p. 170-173)

— Review of Whose Place? : A Study of Sally Morgan's 'My Place' 1992 anthology interview criticism
1 World-Making Narratives Sue Thomas , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Meridian , October vol. 12 no. 2 1993; (p. 173-175)

— Review of Real Deadly Ruby Langford Ginibi , 1992 selected work poetry prose extract
1 Untitled Sue Thomas , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Aumla , November no. 78 1992; (p. 117-123)

— Review of Striking Chords : Multicultural Literary Interpretations 1992 anthology criticism prose poetry autobiography
1 Alice in Anglo-Indian Terrorland Sue Thomas , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , September vol. 4 no. 3 1992; (p. 19-20)

— Review of Midnight Voices Patricia Pengilley , 1992 selected work short story
1 Untitled Sue Thomas , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Aumla , November no. 78 1992; (p. 117-123)

— Review of Striking Chords : Multicultural Literary Interpretations 1992 anthology criticism prose poetry autobiography
1 A Bad Literary Mother? Sue Thomas , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Meridian , May vol. 10 no. 1 1991; (p. 70-72)

— Review of Sisters : A Novel Ada Cambridge , 1904 single work novel
1 Another `Feminising' Anthology Sue Thomas , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Meridian , May vol. 9 no. 1 1990; (p. 63-65)

— Review of Eight Voices of the Eighties : Stories, Journalism and Criticism by Australian Women Writers 1989 anthology criticism extract short story autobiography correspondence prose review interview
1 Reconstructing Ada Cambridge Sue Thomas , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Meridian , October vol. 8 no. 2 1989; (p. 184-187)

— Review of Unspoken Thoughts Ada Cambridge , 1887 selected work poetry ; A Woman's Friendship Ada Cambridge , 1889 single work novel
1 Writing the Self : Barbara Hanrahan's "The Scent of Eucalyptus" Sue Thomas , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 11 no. 3 1989; (p. 53-66)
1 Connections : Recent Criticism of Aboriginal Writing Sue Thomas , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meridian , May vol. 8 no. 1 1989; (p. 39-46)
1 Writing Autobiography : An Interview with Dorothy Hewett Sue Thomas (interviewer), 1988 single work interview
— Appears in: Meridian , October vol. 7 no. 2 (p. 153-159)
1 Aboriginal Subjection and Affirmation Sue Thomas , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 47 no. 4 1988; (p. 755-761) The AustLit Anthology of Criticism 2010; (p. 40)
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