A History of Australia, Volume 6"All through this volume runs a sense of Australian uncertainty over the period 1916-1935: were Australians a people with their own country, their own responsibilities, their own history to make? Or were they essentially Britons, relocated merely by some chance in a far corner of the globe? Was it their destiny to look forward bravely to an unknown future, or to look backwards on a fading imperial past? Henry Lawson put to them the choice they had - between "the Old Dead Tree" and "the Young Tree Green"." |
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patronizing , the Age dismissing the play as ' too slight to make a whole evening's
amusement ' . Louis Esson complained he was unknown in the Punch office .
Robert Ross was enthusiastic in Ross's Monthly . The play stood , he said , ' for ...
patronizing , the Age dismissing the play as ' too slight to make a whole evening's
amusement ' . Louis Esson complained he was unknown in the Punch office .
Robert Ross was enthusiastic in Ross's Monthly . The play stood , he said , ' for ...
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Yet young Australian repertory actresses would faint , and need a reviving whiff of
the smelling - salts bottle or a mouthful of ' something stronger ' if they were asked
to play the part of a woman from Fitzroy in an Esson play . They would be ...
Yet young Australian repertory actresses would faint , and need a reviving whiff of
the smelling - salts bottle or a mouthful of ' something stronger ' if they were asked
to play the part of a woman from Fitzroy in an Esson play . They would be ...
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Other writers in England made fun of the Australians , advising them in their own
interests to learn to play leg theory quickly or play cricket with tennis balls . That
fine old English literary gentleman , J. C. Squire , a connoisseur of the late cut ...
Other writers in England made fun of the Australians , advising them in their own
interests to learn to play leg theory quickly or play cricket with tennis balls . That
fine old English literary gentleman , J. C. Squire , a connoisseur of the late cut ...
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Contents
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 116 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | A History of Australia, Volume 6 A History of Australia, Manning Clark |
| Authors | Charles Manning Hope Clark, Manning Clark |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0522843522, 9780522843521 |
| Length | 522 pages |
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