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M. W. Peacock M. W. Peacock i(A21552 works by) (a.k.a. Marie Winifred Peacock)
Gender: Female
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1 An Evening Call M. W. Peacock , 1951 single work short story
— Appears in: Australian Week-End Review , 23 February vol. 1 no. 21 1951; (p. 324, 335)
1 Book of the Month M. W. Peacock , 1950 single work short story
— Appears in: Australian Week-End Review , 3 November vol. 1 no. 16 1950; (p. 244, 254) A young Australian freelance journalist finds work with a pretentious English woman. The Australian is enlisted to help with the preparation of her employer's memoirs, but plays a trick by sending her own satirical version to the publisher in place of the sanctioned manuscript.
1 Myra Morris and `White Magic' M. W. Peacock , 1947 single work biography
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal , October vol. 2 no. 4 1947; (p. 204-205,211)
1 Taxation and the Author M. W. Peacock , 1947 single work column
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Library Journal , April vol. 1 no. 10 1947; (p. 469)
1 'Orion' Horne M. W. Peacock , 1947 single work biography
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal , November vol. 2 no. 5 1947; (p. 244-246)
1 1 y separately published work icon Dead Puppets Dance M. W. Peacock , Melbourne : Georgian House , 1944 Z820034 1944 single work novel

'The novel is really in the form of a family chronicle, dating from the time that Emily, daughter of a successful pioneer pastoralist in Victoria, ran away with a stockman, who, unknown to her, was a bushranger, till her granddaughter, with some of the grandmother's love of independence, plays her part in Melbourne In the present struggle for survival.'

Source:

'Australian Fiction', The Courier-Mail, 16 December 1944, p.5.
1 Wings M. W. Peacock , 1942 single work short story
— Appears in: Australia Week-End Book 1942; (p. 124-128)
1 Requiem M. W. Peacock , 1942 single work short story
— Appears in: Australia Week-End Book 1942; (p. 86-90)
1 In the Dead of Night M. W. Peacock , 1942 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Australia Week-End Book 1942; (p. 68-72)
1 The Rehearsal M. W. Peacock , 1942 single work short story
— Appears in: The Home , 1 July vol. 23 no. 7 1942; (p. 38-39, 57-58)
1 2 y separately published work icon Black Valleys M. W. Peacock , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1935 Z46471 1935 single work novel
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