Australia Through the Looking-glass: Children's Fiction, 1830-1980

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Melbourne University Press, 1984 - Juvenile Fiction - 358 pages
Ethel Turner - May Gibbs - Mary Grant Bruce - John Rowe Townsend - Ivan Southall - Colin Thiele - Eleanor Spence - Norman Lindsay.

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Contents

The Young Settlers
8
Adventures Unlimited
28
Pilgrims Progress
43
Copyright

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About the author (1984)

Brenda Niall is an Australian author, literary critic and journalist, born in 1930. She has degrees from the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University and Monash University. In 2004 she was awarded the Order of Australia for 'services to Australian literature, as an academic, biographer and literary critic'. Her first book was the biography, Martin Boyd (1974). Her later work includes Life Class, The Riddle of Father Hackett: a life in Ireland and Australia, True North: the story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack and Mannix, for which she won the 2016 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, and the 2016 National Biography Award, presented by the State Library of New South Wales.

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TitleAustralia Through the Looking-glass: Children's Fiction, 1830-1980
AuthorsBrenda Niall, Frances O'Neill
Editionillustrated
PublisherMelbourne University Press, 1984
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized10 Mar 2008
ISBN0522842828, 9780522842821
Length358 pages
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Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories
Literary Criticism / Australian & Oceanian
Literary Criticism / Children's & Young Adult Literature
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Culture, Race & Ethnicity
  
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