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Lesley Rowlands Lesley Rowlands i(A33518 works by)
Born: Established: 1925 Carcoar, Blayney area, Blayney - Cowra - Grenfell area, Central West NSW, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 I Live Near You Lesley Rowlands , 1966 single work short story
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 22 October vol. 88 no. 4520 1966; (p. 49-50)
1 [Review] Summer's Tales 2 [and] The Permit Lesley Rowlands , 1966 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February vol. 5 no. 4 1966; (p. 66)
— Review of The Permit Donald Horne , 1965 single work novel ; Summer's Tales 2 1965 anthology short story prose
1 A Really Splendid Evening Lesley Rowlands , 1965 single work short story
— Appears in: Coast to Coast : Australian Stories 1963-1964 1965; (p. 166-173) Short Stories of Australia : The Moderns 1967; (p. 201-209) Best Australian Short Stories 1971; (p. 389-397)
1 1 y separately published work icon A Bird in the Hand Lesley Rowlands , Sydney : Ure Smith , 1965 Z347462 1965 single work novel humour

A 'satire of modern Australian life, with settings ranging from Sydney to the Gold Coast of Queensland'. The story focuses on the comic 'efforts of the protagonist, Clem Bird, to escape the bonds of respectability, a job, matrimony and the social ambitions of his North Shore mother'.

(Sources: Murphy Women Writers and Australia, 1988; The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 1994.)
1 y separately published work icon On Top of the World Lesley Rowlands , Sydney : Ure Smith , 1961 Z1392229 1961 single work autobiography travel humour
1 1 y separately published work icon Why Can't the English? Lesley Rowlands , Sydney : Ure Smith , 1959 Z1392206 1959 single work autobiography travel humour
1 1 And What Part of Europe Do You Come From? Lesley Rowlands , 1958 single work short story
— Appears in: Coast to Coast : Australian Stories 1957-1958 1958; (p. 165-173) Two Ways Meet : Stories of Migrants in Australia 1963; (p. 164-171)
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