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1 Untitled Sandra Knowles , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , June vol. 25 no. 64 2010; (p. 248-249)
— Review of Damaged Men Desiring Women : Male Bodies in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction Katherine Bode , 2008 single work criticism
1 'Oh, For Some Refuge - For Myself - To Be Myself' : The Search for Gender Neutrality in the Diaries of Miles Franklin Sandra Knowles , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , March vol. 25 no. 63 2010; (p. 63-75)

'Miles Franklin, as many scholars have suggested, was an inherently contradictory personality. Friends and colleagues have represented her as someone who rarely disclosed her private life. Marjory Barnard highlighted Franklin's privacy when she wrote in her biography of Franklin: 'Who knows exactly what Miles felt - even when she told you?' (1967, 49). In her collection of Australian women writers' diaries and letters from this era, Carole Ferrier writes: 'Franklin does not generally reveal a great deal about her personal life in her letters' (1992, 6). Jill Roe describes her as 'self-protective to a degree people still find incomprehensible' (2008, 345). This article has been developed from a larger project that set out to explore 'the dynamics of her interior life' (Roe 2004, 44) as expressed in Franklin'd manuscript diaries, held at the Mitchell Library in Sydney.' (p63)
1 1 Stella Miles Franklin : A Biography by Jill Roe Sandra Knowles , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 9 2009;
— Review of Stella Miles Franklin Jill Roe , 2008 single work biography
1 'Furnishing the Australia of Our Dreams' : Nostalgic Grief and Deathly Contamination in Miles Franklin's Diaries Sandra Knowles , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , April no. 43 2005; (p. 7-22) In this article, Sandra Knowles draws upon The Diaries of Miles Franklin, as well as the 'Diary Notebooks', held at the Mitchell Library, to examine Franklin's complicated nationalism and "to establish a relationship between nationalism and the diary form to consider the way both resist the 'other'" (7).
1 The Not Quite Real Miles Franklin : Diaries as Performance Sandra Knowles , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 4 no. 2005; (p. 185-200) This essay argues that Franklin's diaries are a performance of privacy and authenticity, through a consideration of her diary audience. Her diaries do not reveal an artificial Franklin, but rather challenge the notion that diaries produce authentic representations of their diarists (p.185).
1 Privacy and Performance Sandra Knowles , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 64 no. 3 2004; (p. 212-217)
— Review of The Diaries of Miles Franklin Miles Franklin , 2004 selected work diary
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