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, 1988 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Mr Hogarth's Will: Introduction,
single work
criticism
Thomson notes Spence's weaving of social issues into the fabric of the novel structure, and sees Spence as a feminist long before the term was coined.
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Works about this Work
- y Sensational Melbourne : Reading, Sensation Fiction and 'Lady Audley's Secret' in the Victorian Metropolis North Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2011 Z1802540 2011 single work criticism 'Colonial Melbournians were mad about Sensation fiction - full of thrills and scandal; divorce, bigamy, mistaken identity and murder. Sensational Melbourne takes us through the libraries, the shops, the tramways, the theatres, the back lanes and the drawing rooms of Marvelous Melbourne, and shows how the city was built on words as much as gold. It traces the passage of the most popular novel of the nineteenth century, Lady Audley's Secret, from England to Melbourne's port and through the cultural byways of Melbourne out through the suburbs, and into Australian literature.' -- Back cover.
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Catherine Helen Spence : City Woman
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Populous Places : Australian Cities and Towns 1992; (p. 131-141) -
Spence Questions a Woman's Role in Mr Hogarth's Will...
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , Spring vol. 3 no. 1 1989; (p. 34)
— Review of Mr Hogarth's Will 1864 single work novel -
Fragile Hopes
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 8 no. 3 1989; (p. 68-69)
— Review of Hitting the Wall : Two Novellas 1989 selected work novella ; Heartland 1992 single work novel ; Quickening and Other Stories 1989 selected work short story ; Barbara Baynton : Between Two Worlds : A Biography 1989 single work biography ; Mr Hogarth's Will 1864 single work novel ; The Hanged Man in the Garden 1989 selected work short story ; Eye of the Bull 1989 single work novel ; The Job 1977 single work novel -
Mr Hogarth's Will: Introduction
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Mr Hogarth's Will 1988; (p. ix-xvii) Thomson notes Spence's weaving of social issues into the fabric of the novel structure, and sees Spence as a feminist long before the term was coined.
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Fragile Hopes
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 8 no. 3 1989; (p. 68-69)
— Review of Hitting the Wall : Two Novellas 1989 selected work novella ; Heartland 1992 single work novel ; Quickening and Other Stories 1989 selected work short story ; Barbara Baynton : Between Two Worlds : A Biography 1989 single work biography ; Mr Hogarth's Will 1864 single work novel ; The Hanged Man in the Garden 1989 selected work short story ; Eye of the Bull 1989 single work novel ; The Job 1977 single work novel -
Spence Questions a Woman's Role in Mr Hogarth's Will...
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , Spring vol. 3 no. 1 1989; (p. 34)
— Review of Mr Hogarth's Will 1864 single work novel -
Untitled
1865
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Review , 25 November vol. 20 no. 526 1865; (p. 676-7)
— Review of Mr Hogarth's Will 1864 single work novel -
Catherine Helen Spence : City Woman
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Populous Places : Australian Cities and Towns 1992; (p. 131-141) - y Sensational Melbourne : Reading, Sensation Fiction and 'Lady Audley's Secret' in the Victorian Metropolis North Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2011 Z1802540 2011 single work criticism 'Colonial Melbournians were mad about Sensation fiction - full of thrills and scandal; divorce, bigamy, mistaken identity and murder. Sensational Melbourne takes us through the libraries, the shops, the tramways, the theatres, the back lanes and the drawing rooms of Marvelous Melbourne, and shows how the city was built on words as much as gold. It traces the passage of the most popular novel of the nineteenth century, Lady Audley's Secret, from England to Melbourne's port and through the cultural byways of Melbourne out through the suburbs, and into Australian literature.' -- Back cover.
- y Autobiography Adelaide : W. K. Thomas , 1910 Z823254 1910 single work autobiography
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Catherine Helen Spence: Pragmatic Utopian
1983
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Who Is She? 1983; (p. 12-25) The author argues that the ideas Spence worked hard to disseminate were chiefly pragmatic; that she failed to understand the function of art and literature beyond the simply didactic. However, in her work, national pride found a definitive female voice for the first time. -
Love and Labour : Marriage and Work in the Novels of Catherine Helen Spence
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: A Bright and Fiery Troop : Australian Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century 1988; (p. 101-116)Thomson examines Spence's portrayal of women, marriage and society in her novels, noting the degree to which she criticizes the nineteenth-century status quo and suggests reforms which would liberate women, married or unmarried.
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cScotland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
- ca. 1850-1865
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