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Colonial Australian Popular Fiction Digital Archive
y separately published work icon The Boy in the Bush single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 1924... 1924 The Boy in the Bush
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon The Boy in the Bush Hugh Whitemore , ( dir. Rob Stewart ) Australia United Kingdom (UK) : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Portman Productions ABC Television , 1984 Z1430967 1984 series - publisher film/TV Set in Australia during the 1880s, this period drama focuses on Englishman Jack Grant, who travels to Western Australia to work on his relatives' farm.

Notes

  • Adapted for the 1983 television mini-series of the same name, directed by Rob Stewart with screenplay by Hugh Whitemore.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Cambridge, Cambridgeshire,
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Cambridge University Press , 1990 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Introduction, Paul Eggert , single work criticism

Includes the following sections:

  • Perth and Mollie Skinner
  • The Writing of The Boy in the Bush
  • The Revision of the Typescripts
  • Publication
  • Mollie Skinner's and Lawrence's Relative Responsibilities for the Novel
  • Reception
  • Text
(p. xix-lviii)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      Martin Secker ,
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      Colonial Australian Popular Fiction Digital Archive
      Extent: vi, 369p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published August 1924. For differences between this and the first American edition see Eggert's introduction to the Cambridge edition.
    • London,
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      Heinemann ,
      1972 .
      Extent: xxviii, 370p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Offset facsimile of first (English) printing.
      • Preface by Harry T. Moore. Note on the text by Matthew J. Bruccoli.
      ISBN: 0434407259
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      Viking ,
      1972 .
      Extent: 370p.
      ISBN: 067000331X
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Macmillan , 1980 .
      Extent: xxi, 276p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Preface by Harry T. Moore.
      ISBN: 0333299787
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      Thomas Seltzer ,
      1924 .
      Extent: vi, 388p.p.
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      • Published September 1924. For differences between this and the first English edition see Eggert's introduction to the Cambridge edition.

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Untitled single work review
— Review of The Boy in the Bush D. H. Lawrence , M. L. Skinner , 1924 single work novel
Untitled single work review
— Review of The Boy in the Bush D. H. Lawrence , M. L. Skinner , 1924 single work novel
Untitled single work review
— Review of The Boy in the Bush D. H. Lawrence , M. L. Skinner , 1924 single work novel
Rediscovering Mollie Skinner, Pioneering WA Author and Nurse Forgotten by History Emma Wynne , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , April 2018;

'She was a feminist, passionate recorder of West Australian history and a leading local nurse.'

The Long 1890s : Henry Lawson, Francis Adams and the Anglo-Australian Network in London. Paul Eggert , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Script & Print , July vol. 40 no. 3 2016; (p. 133-143)
'The article presents an essay discussing the link between history and literature. The author highlights the influence of Ango-Australian ideologies to the formation of the culture and literature in Australia, and discusses the life of notable writers in the country including Francis Adams, and Henry Lawson including some of their noteworthy literary pieces.' (Publication abstract)
Y'Self is God! : A Literary Slander on Australia 1925 single work review
— Appears in: Life : A Record for Busy Folk , 1 January 1925; (p. 22-24)

— Review of The Boy in the Bush D. H. Lawrence , M. L. Skinner , 1924 single work novel
The Disintegration of D. H. Lawrence Vance Palmer , 1925 single work review
— Appears in: Boston Independent , 11 April 1925; (p. 414-415)

— Review of The Boy in the Bush D. H. Lawrence , M. L. Skinner , 1924 single work novel
Misfit to Patriarch Bruce Steele , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 123 1991; (p. 88-90)

— Review of The Boy in the Bush D. H. Lawrence , M. L. Skinner , 1924 single work novel
The Lawrence Touch - for Better and Worse David Carter , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 April 1991; (p. rev 6)

— Review of The Boy in the Bush D. H. Lawrence , M. L. Skinner , 1924 single work novel
Lawrence Legacy Makes Curious Collaboration H. A. Willis , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 14 September 1991; (p. 11)

— Review of The Boy in the Bush D. H. Lawrence , M. L. Skinner , 1924 single work novel
The Dutch-Australian Connection : Willem Siebenhaar, D. H. Lawrence, Max Havelaar and Kangaroo Paul Eggert , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 21 no. 1 2003; (p. 3-19)
This thoroughly researched article traces the life and work of Dutch-born left-wing activist, theosophist, scholar and poet Willem Siebenhaar who moved to Western Australia in 1891, and his connection with D. H. Lawrence, whom he met in 1922 and who helped him secure publication for a translation of Multatuli's Max Havelaar. Drawing on archival material such as Siebenhaar's correspondence, and on the letters of Lawrence, the article provides evidence not only of Siebenhaar's socialist (and at the time rather unpopular) ideas and attitudes, but also of the effects some of these had on Lawrence who put his acquaintance with Siebenhaar to creative use in writing his 'Australian' novel Kangaroo, particularly with regard to the fictional character Willie Struthers.
Place, Colour and Sedition : D. H. Lawrence's Kangaroo, a Study in Environmental Values Humphrey McQueen , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Politics and Culture , no. 3 2006;
Comedy and Provisionality: Lawrence's Address to His Audience and Material in His Australian Novels Paul Eggert , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lawrence and Comedy 1996; (p. 131-157)
With particular reference to Lawrence's two Australian novels, Eggert argues that '[b]ehind the often earnest and passionate engagement with ideas and intense emotions - which, for so many people, is the Lawrentian trademark - lurks a form of comedy.'
Mating and Courting : Misogyny in West Australia Sue Roff , 1985 single work criticism
— Appears in: Newsletter of the American Association of Australian Literary Studies , November vol. 1 no. 2 1985; (p. 6)
Readers and Editors : New Directions in Scholarly Editing Paul Eggert , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Securing the Past : Conservation in Art, Architecture and Literature 2009; (p. 185-213, notes 256-260)
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