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Dymphna Cusack
Ellen Dymphna Cusack AM (21 September 1902 – 19 October 1981) was an Australian writer and playwright. Personal life Born in Wyalong, New South Wales, Cusack was educated at Saint Ursula's College, Armidale, New South Wales and graduated from the University of Sydney with an honours degree in arts and a diploma in Education. She worked as a teacher until she retired in 1944 for health reasons. Her illness was confirmed in 1978 as multiple sclerosis. She died at Manly, New South Wales on 19 October 1981. Career Cusack wrote twelve novels (two of which were collaborations), eleven plays, three travel books, two children's books and one non-fiction book. Her collaborative novels were ''Pioneers on Parade'' (1939) with Miles Franklin, and '' Come In Spinner'' (1951) with Florence James. The play ''Red Sky at Morning'' was filmed in 1944, starring Peter Finch. The biography ''Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid'', to which Cusack wrote an introduction and helped the author write, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Australia
The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Government. Before the establishment of the order, Australian citizens received British honours. The Monarch of Australia is sovereign head of the order, while the Governor-General of Australia is the principal companion/dame/knight (as relevant at the time) and chancellor of the order. The governor-general's official secretary, Paul Singer (appointed August 2018), is secretary of the order. Appointments are made by the governor-general on behalf of the Monarch of Australia, based on recommendations made by the Council of the Order of Australia. Recent knighthoods and damehoods were recommended to the governor-general by the Prime Minister of Australia. Levels of membership The order is divided into a general and a military division. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Society Of Authors
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) was formed in 1963 as the organisation to promote and protect the rights of Australia's authors and illustrators. The Fellowship of Australian Writers played a key role it its establishment. The organisation established Public Lending Right (PLR) in 1975 and Educational Lending Right (ELR) in 2000. The ASA was also instrumental in setting up Copyright Agency, the Australian Copyright Council and the International Authors Forum. The ASA provides information and advice on all aspects of writing and publishing. It administers several awards, including the ASA Medal, the Barbara Jefferis Award, the ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize, Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship, and the Varuna Ray Koppe Young Writers Residency. Founding In October 1962 the President of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW), Walter Stone, invited delegates from all other writers' societies to a meeting in Sydney to discuss the formation of a national organisation to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Lightning (novel)
''Black Lightning'' (1964) is a novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack Ellen Dymphna Cusack AM (21 September 1902 – 19 October 1981) was an Australian writer and playwright. Personal life Born in Wyalong, New South Wales, Cusack was educated at Saint Ursula's College, Armidale, New South Wales and graduated f .... Plot summary Tempe Caxton is an ageing television presenter who is recovering from a suicide attempt following the end of her career and the breakdown of a love affair. In hospital she learns that her dead son has left a part-Aboriginal child in a north coast town. The novel follows Caxton's journey of discovery into her own family's past and the living conditions of Australia's original inhabitants. Reviews Writing in ''The Canberra Times'' Jean Battersby found that "Miss Cusack enters the fight with courage, sympathy and indignation, but without very much subtlety or skill...Art, properly exploited, is probably the most powerful ally of the social crit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picnic Races (novel)
''Picnic Races'' (1962) is a novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack. Plot summary Set in the fictional Australian country town of Gubba, the novel details the town's preparations for its upcoming centenary celebrations, the social and financial factions in the town and the discovery of something long thought lost. Reviews A reviewer in ''The Canberra Times'' praised its setting while being a little less impressed with its overall worth as a novel: "''Picnic Races'', Dymphna Cusack's latest novel, is as Australian as a yellow box tree. Her fictional town of Gubba, whose centenary is arranged and celebrated amid a welter of community rivalries, could be any Australian country town from Braidwood to Benalla, or Northam to Normanton....Picnic Races is more than merely evocative of the Australian countryside. The plot is well conceived, the characters realistically drawn, incidents abound including a boisterous near riotous race night ball, with to cap it all, a surprise ending. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heatwave In Berlin
''Heatwave in Berlin'' part 1 Plot summary Australian Joy von Muhler is returning with her husband Stephen to Berlin, in the early 1960s, to visit his family. The pair have been married for 10 years after Stephen migrated to Australia following World War II. They return to a Berlin still struggling with damage caused in the war, and to a wealthy family still hiding secrets about their war-time involvement. Reviews A reviewer in ''The Canberra Times'' was not impressed with the novel: "Dymphna Cusack's new documentary novel, ''Heatwave in Berlin'', has the pace, the excitement and something of the basic hollowness of a thriller...What it makes as a novel, however, is something which cannot be taken very seriously. The characters have the larger-than-life quality of figures in a melodrama, and they speak with something of the same staginess." See also * 1961 in Australian literature This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian lite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sun In Exile
''The Sun in Exile'' (1955) is a novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack. Story outline The narrator of the story, Alexandra Pendlebury, is a middle-aged spinster who writes travel books. On a sea voyage from Australia to England she shares a cabin with Vicky, a young Australian artist. All is well on the voyage until the ship docks in Jamaica and picks up a number of passengers. The West Indians bring out the inherent racism in a number of the white Australian travellers though Vicky becomes rather attached to Lance Olumide. In England Alexandra and Vicky maintain their friendship and they are joined by Lance when he and Vicky become engaged. Critical reception Helen Frizell in ''The Australian Women's Weekly'' was in no doubt about her feelings for the book: "'Dymphna Cusack, in beautifully written prose, shows how bigotry and unkindness will eventually damp down the fires of their love and ambitions, so that in the end even the hearths of their hearts will be cold. Dy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Steel (novel)
''Southern Steel'' (1953) is a novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack. Story outline Set in Newcastle, New South Wales, during World War II, the story concerns three brothers who all work at varying levels of a local steel maker. See also * 1953 in Australian literature This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1953. Books * Charmian Clift and George Johnston – ''The Big Chariot'' * Dymphna Cusack – ''Southern Steel'' * Eleanor Dark – ''No ... References Novels by Dymphna Cusack 1953 Australian novels {{1950s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Say No To Death
''Say No to Death'' (1951) is a novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack.It was originally published in Australia by Heinemann, and later in the US by William Morrow under the title ''The Sun in My Hands''. Story outline Set in Sydney following the war, the novel follows the medical journey of Jan, a young woman suffering from tuberculosis, and her struggles to gain any help from a Government health service struggling for funds. Critical reception A reviewer in ''The Age'' was impressed by the novel: "'A novel built entirely around a social injustice is a rarity, but with competence and courage Dymphna Cusack, in ''Say No to Death'', has presented the subject of the tuberculosis patient and, in a story of heroism, pathos and great sympathy, put the case for the sick civilian at the mercy of a Government — a Government and a people — who respond to the needs of the scourge of war so much more readily than to the scourge of illness...This is a book well worth reading, as mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pioneers On Parade
''Pioneers on Parade'' (1939) is a novel by Australian writers Miles Franklin and Dymphna Cusack Ellen Dymphna Cusack AM (21 September 1902 – 19 October 1981) was an Australian writer and playwright. Personal life Born in Wyalong, New South Wales, Cusack was educated at Saint Ursula's College, Armidale, New South Wales and graduated f .... Story outline The novel is set in Sydney during the sesqui-centenary celebrations and follows the story of the socially ambitious Mrs. du Mont-Brankston and the various visitors she receives during the celebrations. Critical reception A reviewer in ''The Argus'' referred to the book as a "Biting Sydney Satire" and went on: "Like a cold blast striking our complacent Australian faces comes this extraordinary novel by two gifted Australian women, who seem to have seen the 150th anniversary celebrations in Sydney through the wrong end of a telescope... The faults of the book lie in the character-drawing. Burlesque, melodrama, farce, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jungfrau (novel)
''Jungfrau'' (1936) is the debut novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack. Story outline The novel tells the story of a 1930s Sydney school teacher, Thea, her affair with a married university professor, and the impact that affair has on all the people involved. Critical reception A reviewer in ''The Telegraph'' (Brisbane) noted that the author was a "writer of promise" and went on: "It is written with the frankness characteristic of so many writers of to-day who, like modern youth In revolt, demand that their parents (and their contemporaries, too) should face facts and not play the ostrich while life goes on round them in aspects which they disapprove, ignore and almost persuade themselves are non-existent." Leslie Haylen in ''The Australian Women's Weekly'' praised the author for writing about modern women in the city and noted: "JUNGFRAU" is a noteworthy addition to the growing list of Australian novels, because it does deal with these things, and because, as well, it has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manning Clark
Charles Manning Hope Clark, (3 March 1915 – 23 May 1991) was an Australian historian and the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume ''A History of Australia'', published between 1962 and 1987. He has been described as "Australia's most famous historian", but his work has been the target of much criticism, particularly from conservative and classical liberal academics and philosophers. Early life Clark was born in Sydney on 3 March 1915, the son of the Reverend Charles Clark, an English-born Anglican priest from a working-class background (he was the son of a London carpenter), and Catherine Hope, who came from an old Australian establishment family. On his mother's side he was a descendant of the Reverend Samuel Marsden, the "flogging parson" of early colonial New South Wales. Clark had a difficult relationship with his mother, who never forgot her superior social origins, and came to identify her with the Protestant middle class he so vigorously ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
