Author: Oline Keese
Publisher: Sydney University Press
ISBN: 192089974X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Caroline Leakey, writing as Oliné Keese, published her first and only novel, The Broad Arrow, in 1859. It tells the story of Maida Gwynnham, a young middle-class woman lured into committing a forgery by her deceitful lover, Captain Norwell, and then wrongly convicted of infanticide. The novel’s title describes the arrow that was stamped onto government property, including the clothes worn by convict – a symbol of shame and incarceration. With its ‘fallen woman’ protagonist, its gothic undertones and its exploration of the social and moral implications of the penal system, this little-known novel gives an insight into a significant chapter of Australian history from a uniquely female perspective. In this new critical edition, editor Jenna Mead restores material that was cut when the novel was reissued in a radically abridged version in 1886, restoring for the first time in over a century the complete original text of Leakey’s important work.
The Broad Arrow
Author: Oline Keese
Publisher: Sydney University Press
ISBN: 192089974X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Caroline Leakey, writing as Oliné Keese, published her first and only novel, The Broad Arrow, in 1859. It tells the story of Maida Gwynnham, a young middle-class woman lured into committing a forgery by her deceitful lover, Captain Norwell, and then wrongly convicted of infanticide. The novel’s title describes the arrow that was stamped onto government property, including the clothes worn by convict – a symbol of shame and incarceration. With its ‘fallen woman’ protagonist, its gothic undertones and its exploration of the social and moral implications of the penal system, this little-known novel gives an insight into a significant chapter of Australian history from a uniquely female perspective. In this new critical edition, editor Jenna Mead restores material that was cut when the novel was reissued in a radically abridged version in 1886, restoring for the first time in over a century the complete original text of Leakey’s important work.
Publisher: Sydney University Press
ISBN: 192089974X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Caroline Leakey, writing as Oliné Keese, published her first and only novel, The Broad Arrow, in 1859. It tells the story of Maida Gwynnham, a young middle-class woman lured into committing a forgery by her deceitful lover, Captain Norwell, and then wrongly convicted of infanticide. The novel’s title describes the arrow that was stamped onto government property, including the clothes worn by convict – a symbol of shame and incarceration. With its ‘fallen woman’ protagonist, its gothic undertones and its exploration of the social and moral implications of the penal system, this little-known novel gives an insight into a significant chapter of Australian history from a uniquely female perspective. In this new critical edition, editor Jenna Mead restores material that was cut when the novel was reissued in a radically abridged version in 1886, restoring for the first time in over a century the complete original text of Leakey’s important work.
The broad arrow, by Oliné Keese
Author: Caroline Woolmer Leakey
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Quarterly literary advertiser
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Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature
Author: Elizabeth Webby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825992
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of 'Australian literature'. The book consciously takes a perspective that sees literary works not as aesthetic objects created in isolation by unique individuals, but as cultural products influenced and constrained by the social, political and economic circumstances of their times, as well as by geographical and environmental factors. It covers indigenous texts, colonial writing and reading, poetry, fiction and theatre throughout two centuries, biography and autobiography, and literary criticism in Australia. Other features of the companion are a chronology listing significant historical and literary events, and suggestions for further reading.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825992
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of 'Australian literature'. The book consciously takes a perspective that sees literary works not as aesthetic objects created in isolation by unique individuals, but as cultural products influenced and constrained by the social, political and economic circumstances of their times, as well as by geographical and environmental factors. It covers indigenous texts, colonial writing and reading, poetry, fiction and theatre throughout two centuries, biography and autobiography, and literary criticism in Australia. Other features of the companion are a chronology listing significant historical and literary events, and suggestions for further reading.
The Academy and Literature
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Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Union Line of Steamers
Author: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand
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Category : Tasmania
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Category : Tasmania
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1724
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1724
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The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1490
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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1490
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
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Bentley's Quarterly Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Languages : en
Pages : 686
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