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Brian Penton Brian Penton i(A31558 works by) (a.k.a. Brian Con Penton)
Also writes as: Conn Bennett
Born: Established: 4 Aug 1904 Brisbane, Queensland, ; Died: Ceased: 24 Aug 1951 Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
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1 It's Too Hard to be Free! Brian Penton , 1997 single work prose
— Appears in: The Oxford Book of Australian Essays 1997; (p. 118-120)
1 [Untitled] (from Think - Or be Damned) Brian Penton , 1990 extract
— Appears in: The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature 1990; (p. 342-344)
1 Emma Brian Penton , 1963 extract (Landtakers : The Story of an Epoch)
— Appears in: Australian Idiom : An Anthology of Contemporary Prose and Poetry 1963; (p. 11-17)
2 One Day You Will Get Murdered Brian Penton , 1959 single work extract
— Appears in: The Queensland Centenary Anthology 1959; (p. 280-282)
1 Pushing Back the Frontiers Brian Penton , 1949 extract novel historical fiction (Landtakers : The Story of an Epoch)
— Appears in: Australian Heritage : A Prose Anthology 1949; (p. 78-96)
1 5 y separately published work icon Censored! : Being a True Account of a Notable Fight for Your Right to Read and Know, With Some Comment Upon the Plague of Censorship in General Brian Penton , Sydney : Shakespeare Head Press , 1947 Z195908 1947 single work non-fiction
1 1 Henry Handel Richardson - Great and Lonely Brian Penton , 1946 single work obituary (for Henry Handel Richardson )
— Appears in: The Daily Telegraph , 30 March 1946; (p. 16-17) Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 18 no. 3 1998; (p. 252-262)
1 Gursey Returns Brian Penton , 1945 extract novel (Landtakers : The Story of an Epoch)
— Appears in: The Australian Novel : A Historical Anthology 1945; (p. 279-286)
1 Bushed! Brian Penton , 1945 extract novel (Landtakers : The Story of an Epoch)
— Appears in: The Australian Novel : A Historical Anthology 1945; (p. 275-278)
1 The Escape Brian Penton , 1945 single work extract novel
— Appears in: The Australian Novel : A Historical Anthology 1945; (p. 269-275)
1 1 y separately published work icon Advance Australia - Where? Brian Penton , Sydney : Cassell , 1943 Z1441803 1943 single work non-fiction
1 4 y separately published work icon Think - Or Be Damned : A Subversive Note on National Pride, Patriotism, and Other Forms of Respectable Ostrichism Practised in Australia Brian Penton , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1941 Z1401836 1941 single work non-fiction
1 16 y separately published work icon Inheritors : A Novel Brian Penton , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1936 Z256891 1936 single work novel historical fiction

'Brian Penton, in his second novel Inheritors , depicts Brisbane of the late nineteenth century as a town obsessed by the need to conceal the misdeeds of its founders, and to perpetuate their lies.

'The scene is Queensland of the 'seventies and 'eighties of the last century, that most interesting period in Australian history when, "out of the wealth which the tough and sometimes dishonest pioneers had got together, the social graces were beginning to blossom." The major theme of the book is the conflict between this new age, struggling to be born, and the grim years preceding when success in this crude, untamed land could be won only by grim endurance, iron determination, and frequently by crime and violence.'

Sources: Buckridge, Patrick and Belinda McKay. By the Book: a literary history of Queensland. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2007.

Rev. of Inheritors, by Brian Penton. Illawarra Mercury 23 Oct 1936.

1 2 Through Muddle to 'Half Death' Conn Bennett , 1934 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 10 October vol. 55 no. 2852 1934; (p. 2,5)

— Review of Mezzomorto Vivian Crockett , 1934 single work novel
3 48 y separately published work icon Landtakers : The Story of an Epoch Brian Penton , Sydney : Endeavour Press , 1934 Z256694 1934 single work novel historical fiction

'First published in 1934, this novel tells the story of a British man who migrates to Australia in 1842 and is transformed by his colonial experiences.'

1 The Grey Ones Brian Penton , 1931 single work column
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 4 November vol. 52 no. 2699 1931; (p. 2, 5)
1 Epstein at Home Brian Penton , 1931 single work column
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 11 March vol. 52 no. 2665 1931; (p. 2, 5)
1 Down but Not Out Bad Times: For Australians in London Brian Penton , 1931 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 February no. 29049 1931; (p. 12) Good Weekend , 22 April 2006; (p. 61)
1 For the Love of Fight Brian Penton , 1930 single work column
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 30 April vol. 51 no. 2620 1930; (p. 2, 5)
1 A Flight into Order Brian Penton , 1929 single work column
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 31 July vol. 50 no. 2581 1929; (p. 2)
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