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Issue Details: First known date: 1938... 1938 The Wind on the Water
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Widowed Fran marries a publican after World War II and moves herself and four-year-old daughter Mary to the small town of Brown's Town. Although she feels at home in the town on the edge of the Mallee, she struggles with her relationship with both her husband and her mother-in-law.

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Adelaide, South Australia,: Rigby , 1960 .
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      Scanned for the Australian Pulp Fiction Industry project.
      Extent: 184p.
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Untapped , 2021 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9781922749475
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Australian Consolidated Press , 1939 .
      Alternative title: Wind on the Water
      Link: 9131808Full text document Sighted: 10/12/2015
      Extent: 28p.p.
      Edition info: Rev. ed.
      Note/s:
      • Some removal of material, adjustment of chapters, removal of chapter titles.
      Series: y separately published work icon Australian Women's Weekly Novel Australian Women's Weekly Supplement Australian Consolidated Press (publisher), 1934-1963 Z1224574 1934-1963 series - publisher These triple-column quarto supplements to the Australian Women's Weekly published novels by overseas and Australian writers - in the case of the latter, sometimes for the first and only time. The publication was variously described on the cover as 'The Australian Women's Weekly Novel'; 'A Complete Book-Length Novel'; 'A Free Supplement to the Australian Women's Weekly' and 'Supplement - Must Not Be Sold Separately'.
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Works about this Work

What I’m Reading Brigid Magner , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
Poet in a Landscape : Some Reflections on Shaw Neilson Gary Catalano , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 46 no. 10 2002; (p. 61-65)
y separately published work icon 20 Australian Novelists Colin Roderick , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1947 Z412046 1947 single work anthology criticism extract novel
At a Mallee Pub 1938 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 21 December vol. 59 no. 3071 1938; (p. 8)
— Review of The Wind on the Water Myra Morris , 1938 single work novel
At a Mallee Pub 1938 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 21 December vol. 59 no. 3071 1938; (p. 8)
— Review of The Wind on the Water Myra Morris , 1938 single work novel
y separately published work icon 20 Australian Novelists Colin Roderick , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1947 Z412046 1947 single work anthology criticism extract novel
Poet in a Landscape : Some Reflections on Shaw Neilson Gary Catalano , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 46 no. 10 2002; (p. 61-65)
What I’m Reading Brigid Magner , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
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Awards

1935 highly commended S.H. Prior Memorial Prize
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Last amended 6 Dec 2021 16:21:48
Subjects:
  • North West Victoria, Victoria,
  • Mallee, North West Victoria, Victoria,
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