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Jennifer Gribble Jennifer Gribble i(A4849 works by) (a.k.a. Jenny Gribble)
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1 Poetry in Lockdown : Recent Work of Hermina Burns Jennifer Gribble , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 10 October vol. 31 no. 20 2021;

'Well before the pandemic, the future for poetry’s slim volumes was looking far from healthy.  Last November, the threatened closure of UWA Press, one of the largest publishers of poetry in Australia, drew attention to the narrowing opportunities for emerging poets to make their mark.  The venerable Griffin Press, however, now under the Ovato umbrella, remains in the business of fostering ‘untried authors’.' (Introduction)

1 Knowing Where You Come From Jennifer Gribble , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , 1 June vol. 65 no. 6 2021; (p. 88-91)

— Review of The Midlands, and Leaving Them Michael Wilding , 2021 selected work short story
1 Book Review : Desire Lines Is a Small Love Story inside an Epic Tale Jennifer Gribble , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 9 June 2020;

— Review of Desire Lines Felicity Volk , 2020 single work novel

'Chronicling four generations of two families, Felicity Volk’s Desire Lines is set against landmarks of 20th century Australian history, encompassing a geographical span that begins in the Arctic Circle and ends in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.'

1 Do Not Forget : Memory and Moral Obligation in Little Dorrit Jennifer Gribble , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Free Mind : Essays and Poems in Honour of Barry Spurr 2016;
'Enclosed within the outer case of an old-fashioned gold watch, a silk watch- paper embroidered with the initials “D.N.F” carries to Arthur Clennam’s mother from his dying father a reminder of obligations variously interpreted by the characters in Little Dorrit, Dickens’s novel of 1857. It is a palpable image of memory’s housing in time, of the spatial and temporal dimensions across which memory travels, and of the histories and psychologies it holds in connection from time past and into the future of a legally-binding intent. It raises questions about “the duty of memory” that preoccupy contemporary cultural narrative.' (Introduction)
1 Not for the Fainthearted : Review of Even Grimmer Tales Jennifer Gribble , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Sotto , August-September 2012;

— Review of Even Grimmer Tales (Not for the Faint-Hearted) Valerie Volk , 2012 selected work poetry
1 Christina Stead's Politics Jennifer Gribble , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Running Wild : Essays, Fictions and Memoirs Presented to Michael Wilding 2004; (p. 173-186)
Discusses Stead's attitude towards socialism and communism as it reveals itself in her posthumously published novel I'm Dying Laughing and in some of her personal statements. Gribble concludes that Stead's novel 'takes an authoritative place among the political reassessments of communism that are only now beginning to emerge' (184).
1 Medley and Hotchpotch Jennifer Gribble , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 243 2002; (p. 38)

— Review of Christina Stead : Satirist Anne Pender , 2002 single work criticism
1 6 y separately published work icon Christina Stead Jennifer Gribble , Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1994 Z122956 1994 single work criticism biography
1 Patrick White, Vivisector Jennifer Gribble , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reconnoitres : Essays in Australian Literature in Honour of G. A. Wilkes 1992; (p. 154-167)
1 Christina Stead's For Love Alone Jennifer Gribble , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Critical Review , vol. 31 no. 1991; (p. 17-27)
1 Untitled Jennifer Gribble , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 14 no. 3 1990; (p. 398-400)

— Review of Christina Stead's Heroine : The Changing Sense of Decorum Kate Macomber Stern , 1989 single work criticism biography ; Christina Stead, a Life of Letters Chris Williams , 1989 single work biography ; Christina Stead Diana Brydon , 1987 single work criticism ; Christina Stead Susan Sheridan , 1988 single work criticism biography
1 The Beauties and Furies Jennifer Gribble , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 47 no. 3 1987; (p. 324-337)
1 Books of Laughter and Forgetting Jennifer Gribble , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Meridian , October vol. 6 no. 2 1987; (p. 158-164)

— Review of I'm Dying Laughing : The Humourist Christina Stead , 1986 single work novel
1 [Review] The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea Jennifer Gribble , 1966 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March vol. 5 no. 5 1966; (p. 85)

— Review of The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea Randolph Stow , 1965 single work novel
1 Untitled Jennifer Gribble , 1963 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , Summer vol. 7 no. 1 1963; (p. 89,91)

— Review of Yaralie Donald Stuart , 1962 single work novel
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