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'The central character, Old H.B., as he was known, is a remarkable lump of a man in whom runs the craving of the pioneer to conquer the stubborn land, and the reader follows his ambitious course as he lays his hands upon a thousand square miles of country which had defied subjugation, and gradually masters it to his will. Crude, and almost savage, he works an unscrupulous way to financial strength, and In the hour of triumph experiences the bitterness of defeat at the hands of a man whom he had at tha outset sent to gaol for a murderous assault which H.B. knew to have been the work of another. More savoury side lights are to be found in the pathetic simplicity of Sary who with gratitude takes on from H.B. a selection which is well-nigh hopeless; in the sentiment of the wooing of Donald and Georgina; in the pathos of Sandy's loss of his beloved Martha, a victim to unattended childbirth; and in the countryside humour of ever-jocular men filled with the true philosophy of bush life.'
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'Another Cottrell Novel', Telegraph, 15 November 1930, p.14.
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"Australia Is Very American" : Australian Historical Fiction in America 1920s-1940s
2018
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criticism
— Appears in: Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace : 1840s-1940s 2018; (p. 231-270)The previous chapter revealed how, in the early 1930s, Norton's publication of Henry Handel Richardson s Ultima Thule and the Fortunes of Richard Mahony trilogy brought Australia and its literature "deep into the consciousness of reading America' The impact of Richardson's novels was strengthened by the appearance of Katharine Susannah Prichard's Coonardoo in 1930 from the same publisher. Richardson's and Prichard's novels were in fact part of a longer sequence of ambitious Australian works published in the United States from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s. In contrast to the decline in the number of Australian novels published in America across the first three decades of the twentieth century, at the very end of the 1920s we begin to see a cluster of substantial novels appearing together - and being brought together by reviewers. Fiction publishing in general in the United States grew rapidly from a low point in 1919 to a peak in 1929; the number of titles dipped slightly through the Depression years but high levels continued until the early forties. Against this background, the pattern of publication and increased receptivity for Australian novels was sustained until the mid-forties, but with little continuity into the postwar years when many writers had, in effect, to begin again in establishing the viability of Australian work in the American marketplace. There is, then, a relatively discrete historical trajectory across the two decades from the late twenties, emerging from almost nothing and collapsing in the later forties as both cultural and industrial circumstances change.' (Introduction)
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Writing from the Contact Zone : Fiction by Early Queensland Women
2004
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criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 30 no. 2 2004; (p. 53-70) Hibiscus and Ti-Tree : Women in Queensland 2009; (p. 30-45) This paper examines 'some of the ways in which white women novelists also contributed powerfully to shaping the literary imaginative landscape through which Australian readers came to "know" Indigenous people, and the nature of inter-racial contact, in the period before the publication of writing by Indigenous women began to disrupt the textual terrain' (54). The focus is on the writing of women who grew up in rural Queensland and/or used Queensland as settings. The paper concludes that women writers, though presenting themselves as sympathetic and knowledgeable observers and spokespersons for Indigenous people, were 'active participants in the ongoing colonial projects of subjugating Indigenous people and managing perceptions of that process' (68). -
Drawn by `Dossie'
1991
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biography
— Appears in: Voices , Summer (1991-1992) vol. 1 no. 4 1991; (p. 21-30) -
Untitled
1932
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review
— Appears in: All About Books , 12 September vol. 4 no. 9 1932; (p. 148)
— Review of Earth Battle 1930 single work novel -
John o' London's Literary Circle (Sydney Branch) [Meeting Report]
1932
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column
— Appears in: All About Books , 12 September vol. 4 no. 9 1932; (p. 148)
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Dorothy Cottrell
1930
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review
— Appears in: All About Books , 15 July vol. 2 no. 7 1930; (p. 179)
— Review of Earth Battle 1930 single work novel -
Novels I Think You Would Like to Read
1930
single work
review
— Appears in: All About Books , 17 October vol. 2 no. 10 1930; (p. 265, 267)
— Review of Earth Battle 1930 single work novel -
Australian Books of 1930
1930
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review
— Appears in: All About Books , 5 December vol. 2 no. 12 1930; (p. 307-310)
— Review of The Gully and Other Verses 1929 selected work poetry ; The Wild Swan : Poems 1930 selected work poetry ; Queensland Poets 1930 single work criticism ; The Fortunes of Richard Mahony : Comprising Australia Felix, The Way Home, Ultima Thule 1930 selected work novel ; Ten Creeks Run : A Tale of the Horse and Cattle Stations of the Murrumbidgee 1930 single work novel ; Men Are Human 1930 single work novel ; Haxby's Circus : The Lightest, Brightest Little Show on Earth 1930 single work novel ; Redheap 1930 single work novel ; The Difficult Art 1930 single work novel ; Negrohead 1929 single work novel ; Earth Battle 1930 single work novel ; Huon Belle : A Novel 1930 single work novel ; Only the Morning 1930 single work novel ; An Outline of Australian Literature 1930 single work criticism ; Souvenirs d'une Parisienne aux Antipodes 1930 single work autobiography ; Knocking Round 1930 selected work criticism biography autobiography prose essay short story ; The Kitchen Table : A Play in One Act 1930 single work drama -
Untitled
1930
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review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 24 September 1930; (p. 17)
— Review of Earth Battle 1930 single work novel -
Untitled
1930
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review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 2 October 1930; (p. 784)
— Review of Earth Battle 1930 single work novel -
Writing from the Contact Zone : Fiction by Early Queensland Women
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 30 no. 2 2004; (p. 53-70) Hibiscus and Ti-Tree : Women in Queensland 2009; (p. 30-45) This paper examines 'some of the ways in which white women novelists also contributed powerfully to shaping the literary imaginative landscape through which Australian readers came to "know" Indigenous people, and the nature of inter-racial contact, in the period before the publication of writing by Indigenous women began to disrupt the textual terrain' (54). The focus is on the writing of women who grew up in rural Queensland and/or used Queensland as settings. The paper concludes that women writers, though presenting themselves as sympathetic and knowledgeable observers and spokespersons for Indigenous people, were 'active participants in the ongoing colonial projects of subjugating Indigenous people and managing perceptions of that process' (68). -
A Bookseller Talks Shop
1930
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prose
humour
— Appears in: All About Books , 17 October vol. 2 no. 10 1930; (p. 271-272) -
John o' London's Literary Circle (Sydney Branch) [Meeting Report]
1932
single work
column
— Appears in: All About Books , 12 September vol. 4 no. 9 1932; (p. 148) -
What Our Narrative Has
1931
single work
column
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 21 October vol. 52 no. 2697 1931; (p. 5) -
Drawn by `Dossie'
1991
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Voices , Summer (1991-1992) vol. 1 no. 4 1991; (p. 21-30)
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