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y separately published work icon Blessed City : The Letters of Gwen Harwood to Thomas Riddell, January to September 1943 selected work   correspondence  
Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 Blessed City : The Letters of Gwen Harwood to Thomas Riddell, January to September 1943
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'Gwen Foster wrote these letters to Lietutenant Thomas (Tony) Riddell when she was working at the War Damage Commission in Brisbane. She married Bill Harwood and became a celebrated poet (who dedicated all her books to Riddell).'

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    • North Ryde, Ryde - Gladesville - Hunters Hill area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1990 .
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      Extent: 295p.
      Description: illus., ports.
      ISBN: 0207165874
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Untapped , 2021 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9781922730497
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Editing Gwen Harwood Alison Hoddinott , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 111 2007; (p. 29-45) Alison Hoddinott tells of the 'experience of editing some of the prose and poetry of Gwen Harwood'. (Island)
Urbis Hierusalem Beata, Dicta Pacis Visio [The Blessed City of Jerusalem, Vision of Peace] i "Blessed City - that was Brisbane nearly fifty years ago", Gwen Harwood , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Steady Storm of Correspondence : Selected Letters of Gwen Harwood : 1943-1995 2001; (p. 419-420)
Poet Damned Mediocrity with Quaint Prose Sian Powell , 1995 single work biography
— Appears in: The Australian , 14 December 1995; (p. 12)
Untitled Roland Leach , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , March vol. 36 no. 1 1991; (p. 93-94)
— Review of Blessed City : The Letters of Gwen Harwood to Thomas Riddell, January to September 1943 Gwen Harwood , 1990 selected work correspondence
Paperbacks Simon Hughes , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Herald (Sunday Review) , 27 January 1991; (p. 17)
— Review of Blessed City : The Letters of Gwen Harwood to Thomas Riddell, January to September 1943 Gwen Harwood , 1990 selected work correspondence ; Painted Woman Sue Woolfe , 1989 single work novel ; Seven Poor Men of Sydney Christina Stead , 1934 single work novel
New Selecteds from Two of Australia's Most Talented Poets Alan Gould , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 19 January 1991; (p. B6)
— Review of A Human Pattern : Selected Poems Judith Wright , 1990 selected work poetry ; Blessed City : The Letters of Gwen Harwood to Thomas Riddell, January to September 1943 Gwen Harwood , 1990 selected work correspondence ; Selected Poems [1990] Gwen Harwood , 1990 selected work poetry
The Burden of Wild Will Carol Treloar , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 13 October 1990; (p. 16)
— Review of The Devious Being Betty Roland , 1990 single work autobiography ; Blessed City : The Letters of Gwen Harwood to Thomas Riddell, January to September 1943 Gwen Harwood , 1990 selected work correspondence
Letters, Criticism Illuminate Gwen Harwood's Work... Andrew Peek , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 5 no. 2 1991; (p. 157)
— Review of Gwen Harwood : The Real and the Imagined World Alison Hoddinott , 1991 single work criticism biography ; Blessed City : The Letters of Gwen Harwood to Thomas Riddell, January to September 1943 Gwen Harwood , 1990 selected work correspondence
Bright World of Discovery Thomas Shapcott , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 45 1990; (p. 58-60)
— Review of Blessed City : The Letters of Gwen Harwood to Thomas Riddell, January to September 1943 Gwen Harwood , 1990 selected work correspondence
Freshness Suzanne Dutton , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , December no. 83 1990; (p. 39)
— Review of Blessed City : The Letters of Gwen Harwood to Thomas Riddell, January to September 1943 Gwen Harwood , 1990 selected work correspondence
Editing Gwen Harwood Alison Hoddinott , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 111 2007; (p. 29-45) Alison Hoddinott tells of the 'experience of editing some of the prose and poetry of Gwen Harwood'. (Island)
There's Nothing Quite Like Little Gwen Sian Powell , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 August 1990; (p. 74)
Poet Damned Mediocrity with Quaint Prose Sian Powell , 1995 single work biography
— Appears in: The Australian , 14 December 1995; (p. 12)
Urbis Hierusalem Beata, Dicta Pacis Visio [The Blessed City of Jerusalem, Vision of Peace] i "Blessed City - that was Brisbane nearly fifty years ago", Gwen Harwood , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Steady Storm of Correspondence : Selected Letters of Gwen Harwood : 1943-1995 2001; (p. 419-420)
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Subjects:
  • Brisbane, Queensland,
  • 1940s
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