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1 Dying, Living Jennifer Wightman , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: No Strings Attached : A Poetry Anthology 1999; (p. 43)
1 A Practical Dreamer : Catherine Helen Spence Jennifer Wightman , 1974 single work biography
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Autumn vol. 33 no. 1 1974; (p. 89-92)
1 Waste Places, Dry Souls : The Novels of Randolph Stow Jennifer Wightman , 1969 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Winter vol. 28 no. 2 1969; (p. 239-252) Australian Postwar Novelists : Selected Critical Essays 1975; (p. 130-147)

'The five novels written by Randolph Stow, namely A Haunted Land (1956), The Bystander (1957), To the Islands (1958), Tourmaline (1963), and The Merry-go-round in the Sea (1965), are analysed for their common theme. The manner in which Stow has, with a progressively subtle style and characterisation, described in all his novels the capacity of man to love even when he is isolated by his surroundings and experiences loneliness, is discussed.'
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