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Issue Details: First known date: 1978... 1978 Where the Queens All Strayed
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'This elegant and disturbing novel follows a young girl's coming-of-age in the Adelaide Hills just after the turn of the century. Thea Hodge, aged twelve, knows that young ladies should be pretty, demure and nice, but what is she to make of the mysterious and sensual Rina, the exotic sisters Love and Mercy, and her own sister Meg, whose plans for marriage and conformity go horribly wrong?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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Affiliation Notes

  • Associated with the AustLit subset Australian Literary Responses to 'Asia' as the work contains references to attitudes to Chinese people (pp 40-42).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Untapped , 2021 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9781922749550

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Works about this Work

'The Sex Thing Is Strange' : The Queerness of Barbara Hanrahan’s Fiction Damien Barlow , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Claiming Space for Australian Women's Writing 2017; (p. 227-241)

'This chapter explores Barbara Hanrahan’s notion that sexuality “can manifest itself in all sorts of ways” disrupts the naturalised binary logic that governs cultural intelligibility about what constitutes “real” sex and what remains unimaginable and unspeakable. It also highlights a preoccupation in her writing with non-normative sexual desires and identities that is akin to the critical concerns of queer epistemologies. The chapter takes Hanrahan’s contestation of normative thinking about sexuality as a starting point to critically examine the queerness of her “fantastic novels”. By reading Hanrahan’s fiction queerly we are offered a valuable critique that challenges the normalising power of heterosexuality and its claims to be the only intelligible and “natural” way to organise desire.'

Source: Abstract.

American Dreams and the University of Queensland Press Deborah Jordan , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Across the Pacific : Australia-United States Intellectual Histories 2010; (p. 323-338)

'The University of Queensland Press was transformed from a merely scholarly into a creative independent Australian publisher partly through the agency of the American publisher Frank Thompson. In the explosive days of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and with Australians' complex fascination with United States, Thompson embodied the democratic challenge to the old British dominated regime on campus and in publishing circles. This paper will explore pivotal books published by UQP notably Thomas Shapcott's Contemporary American and Australian Poetry in 1976; UQP's development of the American market with the distribution of UQP literary fiction and the establishment of an American office; and co-publishing with American publishers and editing Australian books for American readers in a different hemisphere. Thompson's own assessment of his successes and failures will be contextualised in terms of political developments and those issues long associated with Australian literature - environmental representation and expatriatism.' (Author's abstract)

Untitled Sue Hosking , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 98-99)

— Review of Where the Queens All Strayed Barbara Hanrahan , 1978 single work novel
Barbara Hanrahan Pam Gilbert , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coming Out from Under : Contemporary Australian Woman Writers 1988; (p. 66-86)
Daisy Miller Down Under : The Old World/New World Paradigm in Barbara Hanrahan Joan Kirkby , 1986 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 8 no. 3 1986; (p. 10-27)
Childhood and the Spirit of Place Elizabeth Perkins , 1978 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 6 no. 3 1978; (p. 119-121)

— Review of Knock Ten : A Novel of Mining Life Kay Brown , 1976 single work novel ; Where the Queens All Strayed Barbara Hanrahan , 1978 single work novel
Exploring the Territory : Some Recent Australian Novels Peter Pierce , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 38 no. 2 1979; (p. 225-233) Oceanic Literature , no. 5 1983; (p. 332-345)

— Review of An Imaginary Life : A Novel David Malouf , 1978 single work novel ; The Year of Living Dangerously Christopher Koch , 1978 single work novel ; Bitter Bread Ronald McKie , 1978 single work novel ; Idlers in the Land Keith Thomas , 1978 single work novel ; Tirra Lirra by the River Jessica Anderson , 1978 single work novel ; The Bitter Lotus Richard Beilby , 1978 single work novel ; Where the Queens All Strayed Barbara Hanrahan , 1978 single work novel ; Silent Reach Osmar E. White , 1978 single work novel
Untitled R. Nicholls , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 January 1979; (p. 26)

— Review of Transit of Cassidy George Turner , 1978 single work novel ; Where the Queens All Strayed Barbara Hanrahan , 1978 single work novel
Modes of Being Robyn Claremont , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 23 no. 5 1979; (p. 69-70)

— Review of Deirdre Kincaid : A Novel Colleen Klein , 1978 single work novel ; Where the Queens All Strayed Barbara Hanrahan , 1978 single work novel
Untitled E. Carew , 1978 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 December 1978; (p. 17)

— Review of Where the Queens All Strayed Barbara Hanrahan , 1978 single work novel
American Dreams and the University of Queensland Press Deborah Jordan , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Across the Pacific : Australia-United States Intellectual Histories 2010; (p. 323-338)

'The University of Queensland Press was transformed from a merely scholarly into a creative independent Australian publisher partly through the agency of the American publisher Frank Thompson. In the explosive days of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and with Australians' complex fascination with United States, Thompson embodied the democratic challenge to the old British dominated regime on campus and in publishing circles. This paper will explore pivotal books published by UQP notably Thomas Shapcott's Contemporary American and Australian Poetry in 1976; UQP's development of the American market with the distribution of UQP literary fiction and the establishment of an American office; and co-publishing with American publishers and editing Australian books for American readers in a different hemisphere. Thompson's own assessment of his successes and failures will be contextualised in terms of political developments and those issues long associated with Australian literature - environmental representation and expatriatism.' (Author's abstract)

Barbara Hanrahan Pam Gilbert , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coming Out from Under : Contemporary Australian Woman Writers 1988; (p. 66-86)
Tea Rose and The Confetti-Dot Goddess: Images of the Woman Artist in Barbara Hanrahan's Novels Brenda Walker , 1983 single work criticism
— Appears in: Who Is She? 1983; (p. 204-219)
An Interview with Barbara Hanrahan Jennifer Palmer (interviewer), 1982 single work interview
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 21-28 December vol. 103 no. 5345 1982; (p. 203-206)
Barbara Hanrahan's Novels Alrene Sykes , 1983 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 11 no. 1 1983; (p. 47-57)
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Subjects:
  • Bush,
  • Urban,
Settings:
  • 1900s
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