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INDEX
acrostic poem 222–3
Addison Tiller Prize 232
adulterer, see O’Neill, Ryan
Allenby & Godwin 54, 59, 158, 161, 181, 184–6, 189, 191
Allenby, Lloyd 158, 160, 161, 181–3, 185, 187, 189–91
Angry Penguins 227
Angus & Robertson 151
Archibald, J.F. 55
Australian Worker 113–15, 117
Bail, Murray 44, 77
barefaced lies 121–37
Barnard, Marjorie 123
baseless conjecture 20, 24, 56, 63, 81–4, 87, 88, 102, 169–71
Baynton, Barbara 42, 84, 125, 181
Beaumarchais, Anastasia, see Swan, Catherine
Berkeley, Claude 74, 75, 82, 208, 250
Berkeley & Hunt 32, 43, 73, 76, 78, 79, 82, 83, 86–90, 97, 100, 102–4, 116, 124, 151, 172, 197, 206–9, 211–15, 238–40, 245, 247, 254, 256, 258
Berryman, Paul 18–20, 22, 23, 25, 29, 66, 220–8
Billabong 24, 25, 26, 27
Black and White 12
Boggs, Bruce Alfred, see Washington, Rand
Boggs, Janet 1–2
Boggs, Mick 1, 3
Boldwood, Peter 50, 53
Boldwood, Thomas 50, 63–4
Bonzer Science Stories 3, 4, 5, 143, 166
Browning, Robert 15
Bulletin 52, 54–5, 60, 66, 95, 96, 99, 156, 157, 160
Burroughs, William 42
Bush, Herbert 71, 72
Bush, Mildred 71
Bush, Robert
Australian Stories 1974 (as editor) 77, 78
Bastard Title 71, 83, 203, 207, 250
death 90
early life 71–3
marriage 81
C. Bertelsmann Verlag 5
Calthrop, Alasdair 93, 94–5
Calthrop, Claudia, see Gunn, Dame Claudia
Calvin Grammar School 50, 153, 232
Calvino, Italo 35
Campbell, Wilhelmina, see The Autumn Journey
Canberra 203, 205, 206, 246
Carey, Peter 44, 77, 229
Cattleman 51
Chapman, Deirdre 219, 220, 222, 223
Chapman, Donald
death 219
early life 219
“The Red Stumps of Memory” 219, 220, 222
“The Thaumaturgist’s Complaint” 222–3
see also Young, Matilda
Chase, James Hadley 35
Clarke, Marcus 55, 127, 128
Claypool, Bruno 225, 226, 227
Collins, Wilkie 95
Communist Party 6, 28, 29, 107, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 242
Coolabah, New South Wales 49, 53, 55, 62, 68
Couani, Anna 44
Crawley, Peter 44, 82, 85, 184
Darkbloom, Peter
Dancing in the Shadows 186, 187, 190, 194, 197, 200
death 195
The Flyscreen 185
friendship with Vladimir
Nabokov 193–5
marriage 187–96
Darkbloom, Polly 121, 190, 191, 194, 195, 196, 198, 199
Darkbloom, Rainy, see Deverall, Rainy
Darkbloom, Vivian
death 200
early life 181–5
Ivy Van Allbine: An Australian Vanity Fair 122, 185, 186, 196, 199
marriage 187–96
Degraël, Vincent, see Vernier, Hugo
delusions of grandeur 259
de Maupassant, Guy 156–7
Deverall, Rachel
early life 121–3
Excavating the Basilica: The Short Fiction of Lydia McGinnis 125
family 121–3
husband’s deceptions 129, 136–7
husband’s infidelity with Anne
Zoellner 129
marriage 126
Squeaker’s Mates: A History of Australian Women Writers 1800–2000 126
Deverall, Rainy 32, 121–3, 191, 195, 196, 198–200
De Vere, Walter 98–9
dickhead, see O’Neill, Ryan
distortions 190, 207
Drewe, Robert 235
Duchamp, Marcel 39
Eden, New South Wales 231, 232, 235, 253, 256, 259
egomaniac, see O’Neill, Ryan
Eliot, T.S. 26, 65
Engin, Erol 42
errors 12, 25, 67–8, 79, 103, 115, 135, 137, 142, 192, 238, 240
falsifications 121–37
Fancy Jack, see Sargent, Jack
Fernsby, Alexander 73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 83, 84, 102, 191, 198, 199, 213, 214, 215, 231, 233, 234, 236, 238–59
First World War, see Great War
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 160, 161
Forester, Eve, see Pennington, Eve
Forster, E.M. 65, 160
Fountainhead Press 5, 6, 7, 145, 204
Garner, Helen 24, 32, 125
Gayle, Edward
death 179
early life 165–8
Murder or Self-Murder 173, 177
Terror Nullius 175
Truth Goes Walkabout 125, 175–8
Gayle, Rowena 165, 169
Gayle, Theodore 165, 168, 169, 170
Gladkgov, Fyodor 112
Gorky, Maxim 112, 113, 119
Great War 26, 63, 108, 130, 132, 158, 187
Greene, Graham 67, 245, 251
Greer, Germaine 32, 89
Groovy! 46
Gunn, Dame Claudia
death 103
The Death of Vincent Prowse 93, 96–100
early life 93–5
An Icicle for an Icicle 80, 103
marriage 96
A Red Herring 93, 94, 97, 101
Gunn, Quincy 75, 95, 96, 99, 101, 102, 104, 160, 184
Gurnabil, Alice 165–9, 170, 171, 179
Gurnabil, Katie 165–167, 168, 169, 170
hackwork 28, 37–9, 66, 95–9
Hardacre, J.R., see Washington, Joyce
Harkaway, Helen
Parade of the Harlequins 74, 203, 206, 207, 208, 209, 211–14, 216
Harkaway, Iain 114, 203
Harris, Max 227
Hitler, Adolf 4, 5, 114
Holt, Harold 210–12
howlers 24, 87, 88, 214, 244
Hugo Award 12, 13
Hunter, Richard, see Young, Matilda
incorrect chronology 24–6, 214, 221, 223–6, 244
Indigenous writers, lack of 1–176, 179–259
Jolley, Elizabeth 125
Joyce, James 38, 110, 158, 159, 160, 161, 189
Judas, see Zoellner, Anne
Kangaroulipo 35, 42–6, 121, 126, 162
Katoomba, New South Wales 27, 159
Keats, John 16
Kings Cross 3, 55, 97, 114, 144
Kingston, Adam 177, 178
Kookaburra Books 7, 59, 60, 63, 64, 66, 76, 146, 147, 148, 151, 237
Kristel, Sylvia 43
Laurence Steed Prize for Biography 245
Lawson, Henry 52, 54, 56, 58, 111, 123, 127, 128, 157, 220
Le Voyage d’hiver, see Degraël, Vincent
Lone Hand 29, 52, 96, 129
Lovecraft, H.P. 2–3
Mackellar, Dorothea 22
Mackintosh, Albert 19, 20, 23, 24, 29, 102, 221–8
Malley, Ern 227
Manly, Robert, see Young, Matilda
Mann, Thomas 160
McAllister, Tex, see Swan, Catherine
McGinnis, Lydia
A Kingly Kind of Trade 84, 85, 87
Basilica 81–2, 84, 85, 87, 89, 123, 125
death 88
first marriage 78
marriage to Robert Bush 81
Ryan O’Neill’s misinterpretation of 78–82, 84–8
Ultimo Thule 88, 89, 123, 125
McVeigh, Francis X.
death 117–19
early life 107–9
The Red Flag 111, 112, 122, 190
Return to Animal Farm 116–17
&nbs
p; Melbourne, Victoria 27, 28, 60, 121, 168, 185, 186, 246, 251
misreadings 20, 25, 41, 61, 82, 176
mistakes 1–259
mistress, see Zoellner, Anne
Modrenist 27, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226
Montague, Aubrey 16, 17, 21
Moorhouse, Frank 40, 44, 47, 77
Moscow 111, 112, 113, 114, 117, 119
Murray, Max 24, 25–8
Musgrave, Oscar 102, 144, 145, 147, 151
Nabokov, Vladimir
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle 195
friendship with Peter
Darkbloom 193–5
Lolita 194
Pnin 197
Nebula Award 12, 13
New Dimensions 13, 43, 45, 85, 104, 105, 151, 162, 213, 259
Northerly 18–20, 23–5, 102, 221–6, 228
O’Neill, Ryan 126, 129, 130, 137, 259
Onomatopoets 18, 23, 220
Overground 8, 176, 177, 209
oversimplifications 169–79
Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) 40–2
Oxley, Queensland 15, 21
padding 182–7
Paris 38, 39, 42, 47, 130, 131, 132, 133, 136, 244, 259
Parramatta, New South Wales 55, 93, 129, 181
Pascoe, W.D. 36
Paterson, Banjo 52, 54, 127, 181, 228
Paterson, Henry, see Young, Matilda
Pennington, Eve 231–4
Pennington Prize for Nonfiction 105, 125
Pennington, Robert 231–2
Pennington, Stephen
Addison Tiller: Australia’s Chekhov 75, 184, 237
death 258
early life 231–4
marriage 254
Perec, Georges 35, 39–42, 47
Pieburn, Alan 13
Pin see Darkbloom, Peter
plagiarisms
of Rachel Deverall 15–32, 93–105, 127–35, 141–51, 181–201, 203–16
of Roberto Bolaño 154–6, 158, 161
of Stephen Pennington 238–58
Plume, Naomi, see Swan, Catherine
Poe Edgar Allan 94
Pound, Ezra 221
pyromaniac, see O’Neill, Ryan
Quarter 7–10, 12, 30, 31, 171, 172, 174–7, 228
Queneau, Raymond 39, 40, 44
Reith, Joyce see Washington, Joyce
Richardson, Henry Handel 128
Robinson, Arthur, see ruhtrA, Arthur
ruhtrA, Arthur
death 47
early life 35–8
Long Time No See 41, 43, 46
Shames Joyce: The Great Plagiarist 39, 162
The Coming of the Harlequins 45, 213
Runyon, Percy 57
Salinger, J.D. 205
“Sans Souci School” 24–5, 224
Sargent, Jack 18–24, 220, 221
Second World War 6, 27, 65, 101, 114, 115, 167, 192
shameless self-promotion 126, 137, 259
shoddy research 4–7, 37–41, 94–101, 154–9, 183–94, 209–18
Sholokov, Mikhail 112
Siegfried Press, see Fountainhead Press
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 118
Sontag, Susan 242
Southern Cross 51, 96, 160
Stanner, W.E.H. 172
Steele, Sydney
Steelman Press 28, 29, 114–16
Stephens, A.G. 58, 156, 157
Sterne, Laurence 35
Stratford, Frederick
The Enchanted Mountain 159
Mrs Galloway 153, 159
Odysseus 38, 41, 46, 122, 158–60, 162, 188–9
The Prodigious Gatsby 44, 159
The Sun Comes Up Too 38, 159
Strong, Guy, see Swan, Catherine
Sutcliffe, Kiralee 42, 43, 47
Stuart, Northern Territory 165, 166
Swan, Catherine
A Child’s Finnegans Wake 146
A Child’s Remembrance of Things
Past 146
Cor Blimey 147
death 150
early life 141–3
marriage 145
Swan, Claire 141, 144
Swan, Septimus 141, 143
Sydney Review 44, 90, 124, 127
Sydney Steele Centre 76, 77
Taree, New South Wales 219, 222
Taylor, Jim 23, 53, 155–6
“The Truants” 23
The Autumn Journey, see The Winter Journey
The Bearded Man, see O’Neill, Ryan
The Winter Journey, see Le Voyage d’hiver
Tiller, Addison
death 67
early life 49–52
The Lotus-Eater 64–6
On Our Homestead 54, 57, 184, 237
Return to Our Homestead 61, 82
Uluru 8–9
University of Newcastle 47, 177
University of Queensland 47, 189, 190
University of Sydney 17, 31, 89, 123, 132, 136, 168, 171, 188, 191, 193, 197, 229, 234, 241, 256
Up Above, Down Under 11
Valentine, Harry, see Fernsby, Alexander
Vernier, Hugo, see Campbell, Wilhelmina
Vietnam War 9, 11, 31, 148
Wander, Waif 95, 126
wanker, see O’Neill, Ryan
Washington, Galt
A Kaleidoscope of Rockets 12–13
The Sorceress of the Dawn 12–13
“The Van[qu]ished” 11–12
Washington, Joyce 7, 13, 146–50, 212
Washington, Rand
death 13
early life 1–2
The Last Shot 12
marriage 7
Profits in Prophets: How to Make a Million from Founding Your Own Faith 8
Subhumans of Cor 1
Whiteman of Cor 4, 5, 13
Watkins, Henry Reginald, see Tiller, Addison
Weird Tales 2
Wells, H.G. 1–2, 135
Western Star 23, 51, 53, 56, 98–100, 155, 159, 186
White, Patrick 31
Wilson, Edmund 194, 195
Woolf, Virginia 160, 161
Wordsworth, William 15
Xanthippe Press 90, 124
Young, Clarissa 15, 16
Young, Irene 21, 26, 27, 28, 116
Young, James 15
Young, Matilda Leander
death 32
early life 15–17
The Fallacies 29
Poems 25, 26, 190
She’ll Be Right 15, 17, 32
Zigomanis, Lazaros 42, 126
Zoellner, Anne
affair with Ryan O’Neill 129
betrayal of her best friend, Rachel Deverall 136–7
providing Ryan O’Neill with an alibi 136–7