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'The setting of "No Escape" is a small township in New South Wales, once a goldminers' paradise, now the unprogressive centre of a pastoral district. An Italian doctor named Leo Gherardi, settled there with his wife Teresa and their small son Leo, had been forced to leave Italy for political reasons just at the beginning of a promising career in medicine. His wife in accompanying him temporarily gave up a brilliant future on the concert platform. But both were convinced that absence from their beloved Italy would only be an unpleasant interlude during which they would save money to have Leo's case reviewed and his sentence annulled. This hope alone buoyed them up when they began life in the township of Banton.'
Source:
'An Italian Doctor's Life in Australia', The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 April 1932, p.4.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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In/ Visible Presence: Halo-Australian Women Writers
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 10 no. 1998; (p. 11-12) -
Italian Immigrants in Australian Fiction 1900-1950
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 16 no. 1 1993; (p. 67-78) -
The Italian Woman Immigrant in Fiction: Velia Ercole's `No Escape'
1992
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 128 1992; (p. 68-72) -
A Life Relived
1989
single work
biography
— Appears in: Outrider : A Journal of Multicultural Literature in Australia , December vol. 6 no. 2 1989; (p. 54-59) Correggio Jones and the Runaways : The Italo-Australian Connection 1995; (p. 129-135) -
Forgotten Novels of the Thirties
1978
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , no. 72 1978; (p. 38-39)
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An Italian Doctor's Life in Australia
1932
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 April no. 29410 1932; (p. 4)
— Review of No Escape 1931 single work novel -
The Australian Contribution
1932
single work
review
— Appears in: Desiderata , 2 May no. 12 1932; (p. 17-23)
— Review of Boomerang 1932 single work novel ; No Roads Go By 1932 single work autobiography ; No Escape 1931 single work novel ; Threads of Yesterday 1932 single work novel ; Flynn of the Inland 1932 single work biography ; The Desert Column : Leaves from the Diary of an Australian Trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai and Palestine 1932 single work autobiography diary correspondence -
Australian Literature Society [Annual Meeting Report]
1937
single work
column
— Appears in: All About Books , 12 May vol. 9 no. 5 1937; (p. 78-79) Serle speaks on the first two novels by Velia Ercole (who was in Australia writing her third) followed by Cottman on Lindsay's work. "Attention was directed" to Palmer's work in progress on Stephens. -
A Life Relived
1989
single work
biography
— Appears in: Outrider : A Journal of Multicultural Literature in Australia , December vol. 6 no. 2 1989; (p. 54-59) Correggio Jones and the Runaways : The Italo-Australian Connection 1995; (p. 129-135) -
The Italian Woman Immigrant in Fiction: Velia Ercole's `No Escape'
1992
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 128 1992; (p. 68-72) -
In/ Visible Presence: Halo-Australian Women Writers
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 10 no. 1998; (p. 11-12) -
Forgotten Novels of the Thirties
1978
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , no. 72 1978; (p. 38-39)
Awards
- 1932 winner The Bulletin Novel Competition
- New South Wales,
- Country towns,
- 1900s
- 1910s
