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'Summer at Mount Hope is Pride and Prejudice in the Victorian wheat belt of the 1890s. A black comedy about a young woman’s attempt to resist the worlds of men and money, Phoeba Crupp is a young woman who lives with her parents and sister on a small farm near Geelong. Her father is an eccentric ex-accountant who moved his family from the city in order to establish a vineyard, a decision her mother bitterly — and frequently — resents. While her sister makes a play for the local squatter’s son, Phoeba is content with the companionship of her best friend Henrietta, until circumstances push her towards the world of men and money. Summer at Mount Hope has a lot of the black comedy of Ham’s first novel, The Dressmaker, but also contains a more serious strand about the efforts of a spirited woman striving to be free, in a society where this was almost impossible.' (Publication summary)
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Works about this Work
- y Summer at Mount Hope by Rosalie Ham : Notes Melbourne : CAE Book Group , 2007 8138759 2007 single work criticism
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Parched Romances
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 280 2006; (p. 43-44)
— Review of Watershed 2005 single work novel ; Summer at Mount Hope 2005 single work novel -
Letters Kindle Story of Hope
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 24 - 25 December 2005; (p. 5)
— Review of Summer at Mount Hope 2005 single work novel -
Jane Austen Meets Steele Rudd Amid Bolting Horses and Killer Corsets
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 17-18 December 2005; (p. 8-9)
— Review of Summer at Mount Hope 2005 single work novel -
Take Three
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 18 December 2005; (p. 14)
— Review of The Factory 2005 single work novel ; Summer at Mount Hope 2005 single work novel ; The Accidental Renovator : A Paris Story 2005 single work autobiography
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Skim
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 8 November vol. 123 no. 6495 2005; (p. 92)
— Review of The Butterfly Man 2005 single work novel ; Man of Water 2005 single work novel ; Summer at Mount Hope 2005 single work novel -
In Short : Fiction
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 November 2005; (p. 22)
— Review of Summer at Mount Hope 2005 single work novel ; Beyond Lucas Heights 2005 single work novel ; The Factory 2005 single work novel -
Ham Courts Her Summery Jurisdiction
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 10 December 2005; (p. 30)
— Review of Summer at Mount Hope 2005 single work novel -
Untitled
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , November vol. 85 no. 5 2005; (p. 32)
— Review of Summer at Mount Hope 2005 single work novel -
Take Three
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 18 December 2005; (p. 14)
— Review of The Factory 2005 single work novel ; Summer at Mount Hope 2005 single work novel ; The Accidental Renovator : A Paris Story 2005 single work autobiography -
The Jerilderie Letters
2005
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 20 November 2005; (p. 24) Summer at Mount Hope was partly inspired by the letters exchanged between the author's paternal grandfather, a wool classer from Jerilderie, in NSW, and her grandmother, a Victorian farm girl. - y Summer at Mount Hope by Rosalie Ham : Notes Melbourne : CAE Book Group , 2007 8138759 2007 single work criticism
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