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Jose, Arthur Wilberforce (1863–1934)
Poetry: Sun and Cloud on River and Sea (under pseudonym ‘Ishmael Dare’ 1888). Non-fiction: A Short History of Australasia (1899), The Romantic Nineties (1933). Editor-in-chief of the first Australian Encyclopedia (1925-1926).
Keesing, Nancy (1923–1993)
Non-fiction: Australian Bush Ballads (1955), Old Bush Songs (1957), The Pacific Book of Bush Ballads (1967) (all with Douglas Stewart); Garden Island People (1975), Riding the Elephant (1988). Children’s novels, critical essays.
Keneally, Thomas (1935–)
Novels: The Place at Whitton (1964), The Fear (1965), republished as By the Line (1989) Bring Larks and Heroes (1967), Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968), The Survivor (1969), A Dutiful Daughter (1971), The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972), Blood Red, Sister Rose (1974), Gossip from the Forest (1975), A Season in Purgatory (1976), A Victim of the Aurora (1977), Passenger (1979), Confederates (1979), The Cut-Rate Kingdom (1980), Schindler’s Ark (1982), A Family Madness (1985), The Playmaker (1987), Towards Asmara (1988), Flying Hero Class (1991), Woman of the Inner Sea (1992), Jacko (1993), A River Town (1995), Bettany’s Book (2000). Non-fiction: Outback (1983), Now and in Time to Be (1991), Our Republic (1993), Homebush Boy (1995), The Great Shame: A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New (1998).
Koch, Christopher John (1932–2013)
Novels: The Boys in the Island (1958, revised 1974), Across the Sea Wall (1965, revised 1982), The Year of Living Dangerously (1978), The Doubleman (1985), Highways to a War (1995), Out of Ireland (1999). Essays: Crossing the Gap (1987).
Langley, Eve (1908–1973)
Novels: The Pea Pickers (1942), White Topee (1954).
Lindsay, Norman (1879–1969)
Novels: A Curate in Bohemia (1913), Redheap (US 1930, Australia 1959), Saturdee (1933), Age of Consent (1938), The Cousin From Fiji (1945). Non-fiction: Bohemians of the Bulletin (1965), My Mask (1970). For children: The Magic Pudding (1918).
McCrae, Hugh (1876–1958)
Poetry: Satyrs and Sunlight (1909), Colombine (1920), Idyllia (1922), Poems (1939), Forests of Pan (1944), Voice of the Forest (1945), The Best Poems of Hugh McCrae (edited R.G. Howarth 1961), The Ship of Heaven (1951). Short fiction: Storybook Only (1948). Nonfiction: The Letters of Hugh McCrae (edited R.D. FitzGerald 1970).
McDonald, Nan (Nancy) (1921–1974)
Poetry: Pacific Sea (1947), The Lonely Fire (1954), The Lighthouse and Other Poems (1959),
Selected Poems (1969). Edited Australian Poetry (1953).
Mackenzie, Kenneth (1913–1955)
Novels: The Young Desire It (1937), Chosen People (1938), Dead Men Rising (1951), The Refuge (1954). Poetry: Our Earth (1937), The Moonlit Doorway (1944), The Poems of Kenneth Mackenzie (1972).
Moorhouse, Frank (1938–)
Short fiction: Futility and Other Animals (1969), The Americans, Baby (1972), The Electrical Experience (1974), Conferenceville (1976), Tales of Mystery and Romance (1977), The Everlasting Secret Family and Other Secrets (1980), Selected Stories (1982), Room Service (1985), The Coca-Cola Kid (1985), Forty-Seventeen (1988), Fictions 88 (1988), Lateshows (1990), Loose Living (1995). Edited Coast to Coast: Australian Stories (1973), The State of the Art: Australian Short Stories (1983). Novels: Grand Days (1993), Dark Palace (2000). Non-fiction: Days of Wine and Rage (1980).
Niland, D’Arcy (1919–1967)
Novels: The Shiralee (1955), Call Me When the Cross Turns Over (1957), Gold in the Streets (1959), The Big Smoke (1969), The Apprentices (1965), Dead Men Running (1969). Short fiction: The Ballad of the Fat Bushranger (1961), Logan’s Girl (1961), Dadda Jumped Over Two Elephants (1961), Pairs and Loners (1966), Penguin Best Stories of D’Arcy Niland (edited by Ruth Park 1987). Non-fiction: Make Your Stories Sell (1955).
O’Grady, John (1907–1981)
They’re a Weird Mob (1957), Cop This Lot (1960), Gone Fishin’ (1962), No Kava for Johnny (1961), Aussie English (1965), Gone Troppo (1968), There Was a Kid (1977).
Park, Ruth (1917–2010)
Fiction: The Harp in the South (1948), Poor Man’s Orange (1949), The Witch’s Thorn (1951), A Power of Roses (1953), Pink Flannel (1955), One a Pecker, Two a Pecker (1957), The Good Looking Women (1961), Swords and Crowns and Rings (1977), Missus (1985). For children: Playing Beatie Bow (1980), When the Wind Changed (1980). Non-fiction: The Drums Go Bang! (1956), Companion Guide to Sydney (1973), A Fence Around the Cuckoo (1992), Fishing in the Styx (1993), Home Before Dark (with Rafe Champion 1995). Edited Penguin Best Stories of D’Arcy Niland (1987).
Phipson, Joan (1912–2003)
More than thirty novels for young people, including Christmas in the Sun (1951), Good Luck to the Rider (1953), Six and Silver (1954), The Family Conspiracy (1962), The Haunted Night (1970), The Way Home (1973), Bird Smugglers (1977), Keep Calm (1978), The Grannie Season (1985), Hit and Run (1986).
Porter, Hal (1911–1984)
Novels: A Handful of Pennies (1958), The Tilted Cross (1961), The Right Thing (1971). Short fiction: A Bachelor’s Children (1960), The Cats of Venice (1965), Mr Butterfry and Other Tales of New Japan (1970), Selected Stories (1971), Fredo Fuss Love Life (1974), The Clairvoyant Goat (1981). Autobiography: The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony (1963), The Paper Chase (1966), The Extra (1975). Non-fiction: Stars of Australian Stage and Screen (1965), The Actors (1968), Bairnsdale: Portrait of an Australian Country Town (1977). Edited Australian Poetry (1957), Coast to Coast (1962). Poetry: The Hexagon (1956), Elijah’s Ravens (1968), In an Australian Country Graveyard (1974).
Prichard, Katharine Susannah (1883–1969)
Novels: The Pioneers (1915), Windlestraws (1916), Black Opal (1921), Warking Bullocks (1926), Coonardoo (1929), Haxby’s Circus (1930), Intimate Strangers (1937), Moon of Desire (1941), The Roaring Nineties (1946), Golden Miles (1948), Winged Seeds (1950), Subtle Flame (1967). Memoir: Child of the Hurricane (1963).
Rees, Leslie (1905–2000)
For children: Digit Dick series (1942–82), Karrawingi the Emu (1946), many others. Nonfiction: Towards an Australian Drama (1953), A History of Australian Drama (1973, 1978, 1987), Hold Fast to Dreams, 1982. Edited four collections of plays, with Ruth Park adapted The Harp in the South for the stage (1949).
Riddell, Elizabeth (1910–2000)
Poetry: The Untrammelled (1940), Poems (1948), Forbears (1961), Occasions of Birds (1987), From the Midnight Courtyard (1989), Selected Poems (1992).
Rivett, Rohan (1917–1977)
Non-fiction: Behind Bamboo (1946), Australian Citizen (1965), Australia (1968), David Rivett (1971).
Roderick, Colin (1911–2000)
Non-fiction: Several biographical/critical studies of Henry Lawson including Henry Lawson: A Life (1991), biographies including In Mortal Bondage (1948, biography of Rosa Praed), Miles Franklin: Her Brilliant Career (1982), Leichhardt: The Dauntless Explorer (1988), Banjo Paterson: Poet By Accident (1993). Edited Henry Lawson’s Collected Verse (1967–1969), Collected Prose (1972).
Simpson, Colin (1908–1983)
As journalist on the Sydney Sun, credited with revealing Em Malley hoax (5 June 1944). Author of Adam in Ochre (1951), Come Away, Pearler (1952), Adam with Arrows (1953), Adam in Plumes (1954), Wake Up in Europe (1960), Greece: The Unclouded Eye (1968), The New Australia (1971).
Southall, Ivan (1921–2008)
Simon Black series 1950–1961, other books for children including: Hills End (1962), Ash Road (1965), To the Wild Sky (1967), Finn’s Folly (1969), Sly Old Wardrobe (1969), Chinaman’s Reef is Ours (1970), Bread and Honey (1970), Josh (1971), Fly West (1974), What About Tomorrow (1977), Over the Top (1980), Blackbird (1988), The Mysterious World of Marcus Leadbeater (1990), Ziggurat (1997). Non-fiction: They Shall Not Pass Unseen (1956), Bluey Truscott (1958), Softly Tread the Brave (1960), War in the Air series 1958–60.
Stead, Christina (1902–1983)
Novels: The Salzburg Tales (1934), Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934), The Beauties and the Furies (1936), House of All
Nations (1938), The Man Who Loved Children (1940), For Love Alone (1944), Letty Fox: Her Luck (1946), A Little Tea, A Little Chat (1948), The People with the Dogs (1952), Cotter’s England (1967), The Little Hotel (1973), Miss Herbert, The Suburban Housewife (1976), Ocean of Story (1985), I’m Dying Laughing (1987). Novellas: The Puzzleheaded Girl (1967).
Stewart, Douglas (1913–1985)
Poetry: Green Lions (1936), The White Cry (1939), Elegy for an Airman (1940), Sonnets to the Unknown Soldier (1941), The Dosser in Springtime (1946), Glencoe (1947), Sun Orchids (1952), The Birdsville Track (1955), Rutherford (1962), Selected Poems (1962, 1973), Collected Poems (1967). Verse dramas: The Fire on the Snow (1941), Ned Kelly (1942), The Golden Lover (1944), Shipwreck (1947), Fisher’s Ghost (1960). Short fiction: The Girl With Red Hair (1944). Essays: The Flesh and the Spirit (1948), The Broad Stream (1975). Editor/anthologist: (with Nancy Keesing) Australian Bush Ballads (1955), Old Bush Songs (1957), Pacific Book of Bush Ballads (1967), Kenneth Mackenzie: Selected Poems (1961), Modern Australian Verse (1964), Hugh McCrae: Selected Poems (1966), Short Stories of Australia:The Lawson Tradition (1967), The Wide Brown Land (1971). Non-fiction: Norman Lindsay:A Personal Memoir (1975), A Man of Sydney (Kenneth Slessor) (1977), Writers of the Bulletin (1977), Springtime in Taranaki (1983).
Stivens, Dal (1911–1997)
Short stories: The Tramp and Other Stories (1936), The Courtship of Uncle Henry (1946), The Gambling Ghost and Other Tales (1953), Ironbark Bill (1955), The Scholarly Mouse and Other Tales (1957), Selected Stories (1969), The Unicorn and Other Tales (1976), The Demon Bowler and Other Cricket Stories (1979), edited Coast to Coast (1958). Novels: Jimmy Brockett (1951), The Wide Arch (1958), Three Persons Make a Tiger (1968), A Horse of Air (1970).
Tennant, Kylie (1912–1988)
Novels: Tiburon (1935), The Battlers (1941), Foveaux (1939), Ride On, Stranger (1943), Time Enough Later (1945), Lost Haven (1946), The Joyful Condemned (1953), republished as Tell Morning This (1967), The Honey Flow (1956), Tantavallon (1983). Non-fiction: Australia: Her Story (1953), Speak You So Gently (1959), Evatt: Politics and justice (1970), The Missing Heir (1986). For children: Tether a Dragon (1952), All the Proud Tribesmen (1959).
Timms, Edward Vivian (1895–1960)
Prolific writer of historical romances, including Forever to Remain (1948), The Pathway of the Sun (1949), The Beckoning Shore (1950), The Valleys Beyond (1951).
Waten, Judah (1911–1985)
Short stories: Alien Son (1952), Love and Rebellion (1978). Novels: The Unbending (1954), Shares in Murder (1957), Time of Conflict (1961), Distant Land (1964), Season of Youth (1966), So Far No Further (1971), Scenes from Revolutionary Life (1982).
White, Patrick (1912–1990)
Novels: Happy Valley (1939), The Living and the Dead (1941), The Aunt’s Story (1948), The Tree of Man (1955), Voss (1957), Riders in the Chariot (1961), The Solid Mandala (1966), The Vivisector (1970), The Eye of the Storm (1973), A Fringe of Leaves (1976), The Twyborn Affair (1979), Memoirs of Many in One (1987). Short fiction: The Burnt Ones (1964), The Cockatoos (1974), The Night the Prowler (1978), Three Uneasy Pieces (1988). Memoir: Flaws in the Glass (1982).
Wright, Judith (1915–2000)
Poetry: The Moving Image (1946), Woman to Man (1949), The Gateway (1953), The Two Fires (1955), Birds (1960), Five Senses (1963), City Sunrise (1964), The Other Half (1966), Alive: Poems 1971–1972 (1973), Fourth Quarter and Other Poems (1976), Collected Poems 1941–1970 (1971), The Double Tree: Selected Poems 1942–1976 (1978). Non-fiction: The Generations of Men (1959), The Coral Battleground (1977), The Cry for the Dead (1981) Half a Lifetime (1999). Short fiction: The Nature of Love (1997). Criticism: Preoccupations in Australian Poetry (1965).
Wrightson, Patricia (1921–2010)
Children’s novels: The Crooked Snake (1955), The Bunyip Hole (1957), The Rocks of Honey (1960), The Feather Star (1962), Down to Earth (1965), I Own the Racecourse! (1968), An Older Kind of Magic (1972), The Nargun and the Stars (1973), The Ice is Coming (1977), The Dark Bright Water (1978), Behind the Wind (1981), Balyet (1989), Song of Wirrun (1993), A Little Fear (1993), Shadows ofTime (1994), Rattler’s Place (1997).
Bibliography
MANUSCRIPTS
State Library of New South Wales
When Angus and Robertson was sold to Gordon Barton in 1970, a large number of office files was bought by the State Library of New South Wales and housed in the Mitchell Library. These files (ML MSS 3269) run from the early 1930s to the late 1960s – a separate collection traces A&R’s early years – and without them this book could not have been written. They contain Beatrice’s letters to authors, theirs to her, readers’ reports, office memoranda, scribbled notes, publicity material, newspaper cuttings, and even, very occasionally, statements of accounts. The following is a list of the major files consulted from this collection: Anderson, Ethel T.; Angus and Robertson; Australian Classics; Australian Poetry; A&R internal mail; Royalties; Astley, Thea; Australian Department of Manpower; Commonwealth Literary Fund; Australian Encyclopedia; Baker, Kate; Baker, Sidney ].; Barnard, Marjorie;Bean, C.E.W; Bolton, Alec; Drake-Brockman, Henrietta; Bruce, Mary Grant; Casey, Gavin; Cayley, Neville; Chauvel, Charles; Chisholm, Alexander; Cousins, Walter; Cusack, Dymphna; Davison, Frank Dalby; Dennis, C.J.; Dobson, Rosemary; Durack, Mary; Dutton, Geoffrey; Ellis, Malcolm Henry; Evatt, H. V.; Fellowship of Australian Writers;. Ferguson, George Adie; FitzGerald, R.D.; Forshaw, Thelma; Franklin, Miles; Gaskin, Catherine; Gibbs, May; Gilmore, Mary; Halstead Press Pty Ltd; Haylen, Leslie; Herbert, Xavier; Hill, Ernestine; Hungerford, T.A.G.; Ireland, David; Jacaranda Press; James, Florence; Jose, A.W.; Keesing, Nancy; Keneally, Thomas; Langley, Eve; Lawson, Henry; Lindsay, Norman; McCrae, Hugh; McCuaig, Ronald; McDonald, Nan; McFadyen, Ella; Mackenzie, Kenneth; Mann, Cecil; Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon; Moore, Tom Inglis; Niland, D’Arcy; Park, Ruth; Penton, Brian; Phelan, Nancy; Phillips, A.A.; Phipson, Joan; Porter, Hal; Prichard, Katharine Susannah; Publishers’ Association of Australia; Rees, Leslie; Riddell, Elizabeth; Rivett, Rohan; Roderick, Colin; Rolls, Eric; Salter, Elizabeth; Saxby, Joyce; Sheppard, Alex; Simpson, Colin; Slessor, Kenneth; Society of Women Writers of NSW; Southall, Ivan; Southerly magazine; Stephensen, P.R.; Stewart, Douglas; Stivens, Dal; Stone, Walter; Stow, Randolph; Tennant, Kylie; Timms, E.V.; Tracy, Paul; Trist, Margaret; Waten, Judah; White, Myrtle Rose; White, Patrick; Wiley, Rebecca; Wilson, Barbara Ker; Wrightson, Patricia.
Also consulted were the papers of Miles Franklin and Florence James, and Enid Moon’s unpublished manuscript, Memoirs of a Galley Slave.
National Library of Australia
The papers of Beatrice Davis, Xavier Herbert, Ernestine Hill, Hal Porter, Colin Roderick, Dal Stivens, Kylie Tennant.
Fryer Library, University of Queensland
The papers of Thea Astley, Thelma Forshaw, Xavier Herbert, Ernestine Hill.
Newspapers and periodicals
Age, Argus, Australian, Australian Women’s Weekly, Bendigo Advertiser, Daily Telegraph, Fragment (house magazine of Angus and Robertson), Meanjin, Observer, Overland, Publishing Studies, Southerly, Sunday Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald.
BOOKS
Barker, Anthony, George Robertson: A Publishing Life in Letters, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1993.
— One of the First and One of the Finest: Beatrice Davis, Book Editor, The Society of Editors (Vic.), Melbourne, 1991.
— Dear Robertson: Letters to an Australian Publisher, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1982.
Coleman, Peter, Obscenity, Blasphemy, Sedition, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1974. Davis, Beatrice, ed., Coast to Coast: Australian Stories 1942, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1943.
—, ed., The Moderns, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1967.
de Groen, Frances, Xavier Herbert, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1999.
Dutton, Geoffrey A Rare Bird: Penguin Books in Australia 1946–96, Penguin, Melbourne, 1996.
Eley, Beverley, Ion Idriess, Editions Tom Thompson, Potts Point, 1995
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Fairey, Eric, The 38th Battalion, Bendigo Advertiser, Bendigo, 1920.
Falkiner, Suzanne, The Writers’ Landscape: Wilderness, Simon and Schuster, Sydney, 1992.
— The Writers’ Landscape: Settlement, Simon and Schuster, Sydney, 1992.
Gill, Lydia, My Town: Sydney in the 1930s, State Library of NSW Press, Sydney, 1993.
Green, H.M., A History of Australian Literature, Pure and Applied, vols 1 and 2, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1984.
Griffen-Foley, Bridget, Sir Frank Packer: The Young Master, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2000.
Harrison-Ford, ed., Fighting Words, Lothian, Melbourne, 1986.
Hodges, Harry, Appendix to an Unwritten History, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1949.
Johnston, Grahame, Annals of Australian Literature, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1970.
Keesing, Nancy, Riding the Elephant, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1988.
Kramer, Leonie, ed., The Oxford History of Australian Literature, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1981.
Lindsay, Norman, Bohemians at the Bulletin, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1973.
Lord, Mary, Hal Porter: Man of Many Parts, Random House, Sydney, 1993.
Marr, David, Patrick White: A Life, Random House, Sydney, 1990.
McVitty, Walter, Authors & lllustrators ef Australian Children’s Books, Hodder and Stoughton, Sydney, 1989.
Modjeska, Drusilla, Exiles at Home, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1981.
Munro, Craig, Inky Stephensen: Wild Man of Letters, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1984.
Park, Ruth, The Companion Guide to Sydney, Collins, Sydney, 1973.
— A Fence Around the Cuckoo, Viking, Melbourne, 1992.
— Fishing in the Styx, Viking, Melbourne, 1993.
— with D’Arcy Niland, The Drums Go Bang!, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1956.
Roe, Jill, ed., My Congenials: Miles Franklin and Friends in Letters, vols 1 and 2, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1993.
Rowley, Hazel, Christina Stead: A Biography, William Heinemann, Melbourne, 1993.