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Joan Colebrook Joan Colebrook i(A18762 works by) (birth name: Joan Heale) (a.k.a. Joan Van Kirk; Joan Moffat Heale)
Born: Established: 1912 Irvinebank, Mutchilba - Dimbulah - Chillagoe area, Ingham - Cairns area, Queensland, ; Died: Ceased: 30 Mar 1991 Hyannis, Massachusetts,
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,
Gender: Female
Expatriate assertion
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1 Schoolroom with a View (from A House of Trees) Joan Colebrook , 1997 extract
— Appears in: The Oxford Book of Australian Schooldays 1997; (p. 140-143)
1 Over the Bump (from A House of Trees) Joan Colebrook , 1992 extract
— Appears in: Country Childhoods 1992; (p. 183-191)
1 A World of Water (from A House of Trees) Joan Colebrook , 1992 extract
— Appears in: Wilder Shores : Women's Travel Stories of Australia and Beyond 1992; (p. 172-177)
1 A World of Water (from : A House of Trees) Joan Colebrook , 1989 extract autobiography (A House of Trees)
— Appears in: North of Capricorn : An Anthology of Prose 1989; (p. 102-115)
1 Over the Bump Joan Colebrook , 1988 extract autobiography (A House of Trees)
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Quarterly , 2-3 April 1988; (p. 3)
1 9 y separately published work icon A House of Trees Joan Colebrook , New York (City) : Farrar Straus and Giroux , 1987 Z44865 1987 single work autobiography
1 y separately published work icon Innocents of the West : Travels through the Sixties Joan Colebrook , New York (City) : Basic Books , 1979 Z811473 1979 single work non-fiction travel
1 y separately published work icon The Cross of Lassitude : Portraits of Five Delinquents Joan Colebrook , New York (City) : Knopf , 1967 Z811470 1967 single work non-fiction
2 3 y separately published work icon The Northerner : A Novel Joan Colebrook , New York (City) : Charles Scribner's Sons , 1948 Z105403 1948 single work novel
2 y separately published work icon All That Seemed Final Joan Colebrook , Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1941 Z808645 1941 single work novel
1 The Summer Night Joan Colebrook , 1936 single work short story
— Appears in: Flame , November vol. 1 no. 4 1936; (p. 33-34)
1 The Birth of Ambition Joan Colebrook , 1936 single work short story
— Appears in: Flame , October vol. 1 no. 3 1936; (p. 53-56) A girl of nearly thirteen is excited at the prospect of sailing to Brisbane and seeing the capital. When an Englishman describes the city as an 'overgrown country town' and tells her about London, she re-sets her horizon.
1 A Reaction Joan Colebrook , 1935 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Northern Herald , 24 August 1935; (p. 5)
1 A Defence i "Now summer's here, the modern girl is in the press again", Joan Colebrook , 1933 single work poetry
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 23 December 1933; (p. 31)
1 Travels on the Tableland/Cairns Joan Colebrook , 1930 single work column
— Appears in: The Wentworth Magazine , October vol. 6 no. 2 1930; (p. 38-39)
1 Back to Millaa Millaa Joan Colebrook , 1930 single work poetry
— Appears in: Northern Herald , 17 May 1930; (p. 33-34)
1 Child Faces i "Like lovely flowers in gardens bidden,", Joan Colebrook , 1926 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24 July no. 27629 1926; (p. 11)
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