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Details of Works Taught
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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An Accommodating Spouse
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1999
Z510749
1999
single work
novel
(taught in 4 units)
'The Professor is married to Hazel, a diligent and generous (but rather plain) woman. She is so close to her twin, Chloe, that both women live under one roof with the Professor. 'Back from an overseas trip come their daughters — triplets — ready to celebrate their twenty-first birthday. Family life in the otherwise peaceful house swells to a chaotic crescendo on the evening of the party, as the Professor feels the tender sting of his wife's accommodating ways.' Source: Publisher's blurb (Modern Classics ed.). |
Contemporary Realities Through Australian Fiction | Edith Cowan University | 2010 |
y
An Accommodating Spouse
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1999
Z510749
1999
single work
novel
(taught in 4 units)
'The Professor is married to Hazel, a diligent and generous (but rather plain) woman. She is so close to her twin, Chloe, that both women live under one roof with the Professor. 'Back from an overseas trip come their daughters — triplets — ready to celebrate their twenty-first birthday. Family life in the otherwise peaceful house swells to a chaotic crescendo on the evening of the party, as the Professor feels the tender sting of his wife's accommodating ways.' Source: Publisher's blurb (Modern Classics ed.). |
Contemporary Realities Through Australian Fiction | Edith Cowan University | 2011 |
y
An Accommodating Spouse
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1999
Z510749
1999
single work
novel
(taught in 4 units)
'The Professor is married to Hazel, a diligent and generous (but rather plain) woman. She is so close to her twin, Chloe, that both women live under one roof with the Professor. 'Back from an overseas trip come their daughters — triplets — ready to celebrate their twenty-first birthday. Family life in the otherwise peaceful house swells to a chaotic crescendo on the evening of the party, as the Professor feels the tender sting of his wife's accommodating ways.' Source: Publisher's blurb (Modern Classics ed.). |
Contemporary Realities Through Australian Fiction | Edith Cowan University | 2014 |
y
An Accommodating Spouse
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1999
Z510749
1999
single work
novel
(taught in 4 units)
'The Professor is married to Hazel, a diligent and generous (but rather plain) woman. She is so close to her twin, Chloe, that both women live under one roof with the Professor. 'Back from an overseas trip come their daughters — triplets — ready to celebrate their twenty-first birthday. Family life in the otherwise peaceful house swells to a chaotic crescendo on the evening of the party, as the Professor feels the tender sting of his wife's accommodating ways.' Source: Publisher's blurb (Modern Classics ed.). |
Contemporary Realities Through Australian Fiction | Edith Cowan University | 2012 |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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y
Foxybaby
Elizabeth Jolley
,
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
1985
Z385173
1985
single work
novel
(taught in 2 units)
'Alma Porch, novelist and aspiring dramatist, is hired to teach a course in Trinity College's "Better Body Through the Arts" summer program for overweight adults. On the rundown campus in the remote Australian outback, Alma is surrounded by starving matrons, orgies of sex and gluttony, and an eccentric group of staff and students who are eager to open themselves to the transforming possibilities of her screenplay, "Foxybaby." As the students develop their roles and film this story of a father trying to rescue his runaway daughter and her baby from discos and drugs, the play becomes a kind of therapy and begins to unite and console the lonely hearts of this unlikely group in surprising ways.In this wise and frequently uproarious book, Elizabeth Jolley is at her provocative best.' (Publisher's blurb) |
Australian Writing in the Postmodern Age (also appears as: Australian Literature 1988 to Present) | University of Sydney | 2014 (Semester 2) |
y
Foxybaby
Elizabeth Jolley
,
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
1985
Z385173
1985
single work
novel
(taught in 2 units)
'Alma Porch, novelist and aspiring dramatist, is hired to teach a course in Trinity College's "Better Body Through the Arts" summer program for overweight adults. On the rundown campus in the remote Australian outback, Alma is surrounded by starving matrons, orgies of sex and gluttony, and an eccentric group of staff and students who are eager to open themselves to the transforming possibilities of her screenplay, "Foxybaby." As the students develop their roles and film this story of a father trying to rescue his runaway daughter and her baby from discos and drugs, the play becomes a kind of therapy and begins to unite and console the lonely hearts of this unlikely group in surprising ways.In this wise and frequently uproarious book, Elizabeth Jolley is at her provocative best.' (Publisher's blurb) |
Australian Writing in the Postmodern Age | University of Sydney | 2016 (Semester 2) |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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A Hedge of Rosemary
Elizabeth Jolley
,
1967
single work
short story
(taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Westerly , no. 2 1967; (p. 18-22) Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories 1976; (p. 69-75) Stories : Five Acre Virgin, The Travelling Entertainer 1984; (p. 90-97) The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Stories 1986; (p. 205-210) Secret Lives : Thirty-four Modern Australian Short Stories 2003; (p. 279-288) |
Introduction to Fiction: Postcolonial Short Fiction | Texas Christian University | 2012 |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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y
An Innocent Gentleman
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
2001
Z893450
2001
single work
novel
(taught in 4 units)
'Henry and Muriel's life on the new estate is relatively harmonious, despite the vulgar neighbours (the Tonkettes), the Second World War and the regular Sunday visits from Muriel's mother (who believes her daughter has married far below her station). 'The accidental appearance of Mr Hawthorne - Muriel's student - at their house one Sunday afternoon brings unexpected upheavals. Here is a man of respectable breeding, of munificent means, and someone capable of refined, intelligent conversation. Mr Hawthorne has something to offer everyone in the family, but his posting to London disturbs the delicate balance of personal affairs ...' Source: Publisher's blurb. |
Contemporary Realities Through Australian Fiction | Edith Cowan University | 2010 |
y
An Innocent Gentleman
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
2001
Z893450
2001
single work
novel
(taught in 4 units)
'Henry and Muriel's life on the new estate is relatively harmonious, despite the vulgar neighbours (the Tonkettes), the Second World War and the regular Sunday visits from Muriel's mother (who believes her daughter has married far below her station). 'The accidental appearance of Mr Hawthorne - Muriel's student - at their house one Sunday afternoon brings unexpected upheavals. Here is a man of respectable breeding, of munificent means, and someone capable of refined, intelligent conversation. Mr Hawthorne has something to offer everyone in the family, but his posting to London disturbs the delicate balance of personal affairs ...' Source: Publisher's blurb. |
Contemporary Realities Through Australian Fiction | Edith Cowan University | 2011 |
y
An Innocent Gentleman
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
2001
Z893450
2001
single work
novel
(taught in 4 units)
'Henry and Muriel's life on the new estate is relatively harmonious, despite the vulgar neighbours (the Tonkettes), the Second World War and the regular Sunday visits from Muriel's mother (who believes her daughter has married far below her station). 'The accidental appearance of Mr Hawthorne - Muriel's student - at their house one Sunday afternoon brings unexpected upheavals. Here is a man of respectable breeding, of munificent means, and someone capable of refined, intelligent conversation. Mr Hawthorne has something to offer everyone in the family, but his posting to London disturbs the delicate balance of personal affairs ...' Source: Publisher's blurb. |
Contemporary Realities Through Australian Fiction | Edith Cowan University | 2014 |
y
An Innocent Gentleman
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
2001
Z893450
2001
single work
novel
(taught in 4 units)
'Henry and Muriel's life on the new estate is relatively harmonious, despite the vulgar neighbours (the Tonkettes), the Second World War and the regular Sunday visits from Muriel's mother (who believes her daughter has married far below her station). 'The accidental appearance of Mr Hawthorne - Muriel's student - at their house one Sunday afternoon brings unexpected upheavals. Here is a man of respectable breeding, of munificent means, and someone capable of refined, intelligent conversation. Mr Hawthorne has something to offer everyone in the family, but his posting to London disturbs the delicate balance of personal affairs ...' Source: Publisher's blurb. |
Contemporary Realities Through Australian Fiction | Edith Cowan University | 2012 |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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y
Miss Peabody's Inheritance
Elizabeth Jolley
,
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
1983
Z796757
1983
single work
novel
(taught in 4 units)
'In this potent tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne is a brilliant, witty and accomplished woman. The exotic tale of this flamboyant eccentric and her European travels – with jealous secretary and shy schoolgirl protégée – is the inheritance that transforms the uneventful suburban life of Miss Peabody.' (Publication summary) |
Honours Seminar A: Australian Women Writers | University of Queensland | 2008 (Semester 2) |
y
Miss Peabody's Inheritance
Elizabeth Jolley
,
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
1983
Z796757
1983
single work
novel
(taught in 4 units)
'In this potent tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne is a brilliant, witty and accomplished woman. The exotic tale of this flamboyant eccentric and her European travels – with jealous secretary and shy schoolgirl protégée – is the inheritance that transforms the uneventful suburban life of Miss Peabody.' (Publication summary) |
Australian Literature: Traditions and Revisions | University of Queensland | 2010 (Semester 1) |
y
Miss Peabody's Inheritance
Elizabeth Jolley
,
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
1983
Z796757
1983
single work
novel
(taught in 4 units)
'In this potent tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne is a brilliant, witty and accomplished woman. The exotic tale of this flamboyant eccentric and her European travels – with jealous secretary and shy schoolgirl protégée – is the inheritance that transforms the uneventful suburban life of Miss Peabody.' (Publication summary) |
Australian Literature: Traditions and Revisions | University of Queensland | 2011 (Semester 1) |
y
Miss Peabody's Inheritance
Elizabeth Jolley
,
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
1983
Z796757
1983
single work
novel
(taught in 4 units)
'In this potent tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne is a brilliant, witty and accomplished woman. The exotic tale of this flamboyant eccentric and her European travels – with jealous secretary and shy schoolgirl protégée – is the inheritance that transforms the uneventful suburban life of Miss Peabody.' (Publication summary) |
Imaginary Homelands: An Exploration of Australian Literature | University of the Sunshine Coast | 2011 |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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y My Father's Moon Elizabeth Jolley , Ringwood : Viking , 1989 Z206273 1989 single work novel (taught in 1 units) 'Vera is young, awkward and naive. As a schoolgirl, she has her sheltered idealism, her Quaker boarding-school education, and the warm, enveloping sense of security of her parents. As a student nurse during the war, her transition into womanhood is rapid, painful and disastrous. And as an unmarried mother she flees from the nagging tension of her home and the hospital gossip to Fairfields, a place of poetry, music and of people with interesting lives and ideas. Quickly she learns it is otherwise. Yet, for Vera, there is always the moon — her companion, comforter, and the unbreakable link with her father...' (Publisher's blurb, 2008 Penguin publication.) | Twentieth-Century Australian Literature | University of Queensland | 2009 (Semester 2) |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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form
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
1992
1992
single work
radio play
(taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Off the Air : Nine Plays for Radio 1995; (p. 261-298) |
Modern Novel Into Film | Australian National University | 2012 |
Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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y
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1986
Z385481
1986
single work
novel
(taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; 'Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Modern Novel Into Film | Australian National University | 2014 (Semester 2) |
y
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1986
Z385481
1986
single work
novel
(taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; 'Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Modern Novel Into Film | Australian National University | 2012 |
y
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1986
Z385481
1986
single work
novel
(taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; 'Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Australian Literature and Film | Edith Cowan University | 2009 |
y
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1986
Z385481
1986
single work
novel
(taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; 'Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Australian Literature and Society (Contemporary) | Edith Cowan University | 2009 |
y
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1986
Z385481
1986
single work
novel
(taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; 'Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Narrative and Film | Edith Cowan University | 2014 (Semester 2) |
y
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1986
Z385481
1986
single work
novel
(taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; 'Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Narrative and Film | Edith Cowan University | 2015 (Semester 1) |
y
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1986
Z385481
1986
single work
novel
(taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; 'Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Australian Literature: Inventing the Past | La Trobe University | 2013 (Semester 1) |
y
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1986
Z385481
1986
single work
novel
(taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; 'Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Australian Women's Fiction | La Trobe University | 2011 (Semester 1) |
y
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1986
Z385481
1986
single work
novel
(taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; 'Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Australian Women's Fiction | La Trobe University | 2012 (Semester 1) |
y
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1986
Z385481
1986
single work
novel
(taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; 'Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Twentieth-Century Women Writers | University of Queensland | 2009 (Semester 2) |
y
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1986
Z385481
1986
single work
novel
(taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; 'Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Twentieth-Century Women Writers | University of Queensland | 2008 (Semester 2) |
y
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1986
Z385481
1986
single work
novel
(taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; 'Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Twentieth-Century Women Writers | University of Queensland | 2007 (Semester 2) |
y
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1986
Z385481
1986
single work
novel
(taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; 'Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Twentieth-Century Women Writers | University of Queensland | 2006 (Semester 2) |
y
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1986
Z385481
1986
single work
novel
(taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; 'Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Twentieth Century Women Writers | University of Queensland | 2013 (Semester 2) |
y
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1986
Z385481
1986
single work
novel
(taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; 'Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Twentieth-Century Women Writers | University of Queensland | 2010 (Semester 2) |
y
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1986
Z385481
1986
single work
novel
(taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; 'Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Women Writers | University of Queensland | 2016 (Semester 2) |
y
The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
,
Ringwood
:
Viking
,
1986
Z385481
1986
single work
novel
(taught in 17 units)
— Appears in: Kokainovyj Bljuz [and] Kolodec 1991; 'Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.' (From the publisher's website.) |
Australian Gothic | University of Sydney | 2011 (Semester 2) |