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    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking , 1990 .
      Extent: 220p., [6]p. of platesp.
      Description: illus., ports
      ISBN: 0670830348
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The Quest for Grace (from a Draft of the Second Part of an Autobiography) Manning Clark , 1989 extract autobiography
— Appears in: Webber's , October 1989; (p. 9-27)
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‘National Awakening’, Autobiography, and the Invention of Manning Clark Mark McKenna , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 13 no. 2 2016; (p. 207-220) Life Writing after Empire 2017; Clio’s Lives : Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians 2017; (p. 81-102) 'In the late twentieth century, Australian historian Manning Clark (1915–1991) was the nation’s leading historian and public intellectual. Clark published a six-volume history of Australia (1962–1987) and was one of a vanguard of intellectuals striving to articulate a new Australian nationalism in the wake of the British Empire’s decline. His best-known volumes of autobiography were published in quick succession. Puzzles of Childhood (1989), which tells the story of his parents’ lives and the ‘nightmares and terrors’ of his childhood, and Quest for Grace (1990), which begins from his days as a student at Melbourne and Oxford universities in the 1930s and ends just as the first volume of A History of Australia is published in 1962. In addition to these two volumes, Clark’s autobiographical writings extended to reflections on historical writing, essays, speeches and interviews. This paper argues that all of Clark’s writing (including his histories) can be seen as inherently autobiographical. As Clark remarked, ‘everything one writes is a fragment in a gigantic confession of life’. Clark’s autobiographical writings point not only to the notorious unreliability of autobiography but also to much larger questions, such as the relationship between autobiographical truth and his invention as a national figure, and the author’s right to own their life story. Finally, perhaps more than any other Australian intellectual of his generation, Clark’s autobiographies narrate his life story as an allegory of national awakening. ...'
Manning Clark's Anti-Semitism Hal Colebatch , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 52 no. 5 2008; (p. 92-97) Further to comments by Robert Manne, Colebatch argues 'that the evidence for Clark's anti-Semitism is obvious and overwhelming'.
Being There : The Strange History of Manning Clark Mark McKenna , 2007 extract biography (Manning Clark : A Life)
— Appears in: The Monthly , March no. 21 2007; (p. 22-37) The Best Australian Essays 2007 2007; (p. 199-226)
Summer Reading Rod Moran , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , December and vol. 6 no. 1 January vol. 5 no. 12 1991; (p. 10-11)
— Review of Wild Card : An Autobiography, 1923-1958 Dorothy Hewett , 1990 single work autobiography ; The Quest for Grace Manning Clark , 1990 single work autobiography ; Cabin Fever Elizabeth Jolley , 1990 single work novel ; The Bluebird Cafe Carmel Bird , 1990 single work novel ; Florid States Rod Usher , 1990 single work novel ; God in the Afternoon : Selected Poetry and Fiction of Griffith Watkins Griffith Wynne Watkins , 1990 selected work poetry short story ; Miss Gymkhana, R. G. Menzies and Me : Small Town Life in the Fifties Kathy Skelton , 1990 single work autobiography
Untitled James Walter , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , October vol. 24 no. 97 1991; (p. 455-457)
— Review of The Quest for Grace Manning Clark , 1990 single work autobiography
Summer Reading Rod Moran , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , December and vol. 6 no. 1 January vol. 5 no. 12 1991; (p. 10-11)
— Review of Wild Card : An Autobiography, 1923-1958 Dorothy Hewett , 1990 single work autobiography ; The Quest for Grace Manning Clark , 1990 single work autobiography ; Cabin Fever Elizabeth Jolley , 1990 single work novel ; The Bluebird Cafe Carmel Bird , 1990 single work novel ; Florid States Rod Usher , 1990 single work novel ; God in the Afternoon : Selected Poetry and Fiction of Griffith Watkins Griffith Wynne Watkins , 1990 selected work poetry short story ; Miss Gymkhana, R. G. Menzies and Me : Small Town Life in the Fifties Kathy Skelton , 1990 single work autobiography
New Paperbacks Robin Lucas , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 June 1991; (p. 43)
— Review of The Quest for Grace Manning Clark , 1990 single work autobiography ; The Picador Henry Lawson Henry Lawson , 1991 selected work poetry short story prose correspondence biography
Various Beings David McCooey , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 51 no. 1 1991; (p. 165-170)
— Review of The Devious Being Betty Roland , 1990 single work autobiography ; The Quest for Grace Manning Clark , 1990 single work autobiography ; Miss Gymkhana, R. G. Menzies and Me : Small Town Life in the Fifties Kathy Skelton , 1990 single work autobiography
Charmian Clift - 20-Year-Old Essays and Still Sparkling Penelope Nelson , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 May 1991; (p. rev 5)
— Review of Below the Line Eric Willmot , 1991 single work novel ; The Quest for Grace Manning Clark , 1990 single work autobiography ; Being Alone with Oneself Charmian Clift , 1991 selected work prose
Grace in the Interim Edmund Campion , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 6 November vol. 112 no. 5744 1990; (p. 118)
— Review of The Quest for Grace Manning Clark , 1990 single work autobiography
Being There : The Strange History of Manning Clark Mark McKenna , 2007 extract biography (Manning Clark : A Life)
— Appears in: The Monthly , March no. 21 2007; (p. 22-37) The Best Australian Essays 2007 2007; (p. 199-226)
Manning Clark's Anti-Semitism Hal Colebatch , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 52 no. 5 2008; (p. 92-97) Further to comments by Robert Manne, Colebatch argues 'that the evidence for Clark's anti-Semitism is obvious and overwhelming'.
Manning's Graceful Life Catharine Lumby , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 September 1990; (p. 46)
Clark's Quest Involves His Own History this Time Robert Hefner , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 October 1990; (p. 5)
My Life, by Manning Clark - Until 1962 Michelle Hardy , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 18 October 1990; (p. 32)
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Subjects:
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    England,
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
  • Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
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