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Jimmy Brockett
''Jimmy Brockett : Portrait of a Notable Australian'' (1951) is the debut novel by Australian writer Dal Stivens. Story outline Jimmy Brockett is a backstreets entrepreneur who builds a fortune from racing, boxing and newspapers. Brockett joins the Labour Party in Sydney and the novel follows his political career as he rises to become a successful businessman and a Member of Parliament. Critical reception Geoffrey Hutton in ''The Argus'' noted some highlights of the book: "Mr Stivens writes in what may already be called the Sydney tradition, which is distinct from anything you might expect from Adelaide, Perth, or Brisbane. In its toughness it has links with the bushranger novel but its back country is the slums of Woolloomooloo or Surry Hills; and its bandits don't stick up mail coaches but run wrestling matches and get into Parliament. Jimmy Brockett does both, for Jimmy is an urban Ned Kelly, who holds up the city suckers and lifts their bullion without needing firearms. Jimm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dal Stivens
Dallas George "Dal" Stivens (31 December 1911 – 15 June 1997) was an Australian writer who produced six novels and eight collections of short stories between 1936, when ''The Tramp and Other Stories'' was published, and 1976, when his last collection ''The Unicorn and Other Tales'' was released. Life and work He was born in Blayney, New South Wales, and grew up in West Wyalong where his father worked as bank manager. His observances of life in depression era country Australia were to become important to his later writing, and in particular to the folk tales for which he became famous in the 1940s and 1950s. Stivens served in the army during the second world war, on the staff of the Australian Department of Information. He moved to England after the war and was press officer at Australia House in London until 1950. Upon his return to Australia he became a tireless worker for the rights of authors based on the work he had observed from the Society of Authors in England. He was Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power Without Glory
''Power Without Glory'' is a 1950 historical novel written by Australian author Frank Hardy, following the life and ambitions of John West, a politician born into a working-class family who rises to prominence in Australian federal politics. Following the novel's publication, Ellen Wren, the wife of bookmaker and businessman John Wren sued Hardy for libel, claiming that the characters of John West and his wife Nellie were modelled on the Wrens, and that Nellie's affair in the novel was libellous to Ellen Wren. Ultimately Hardy was cleared and publication allowed. Publication The work was originally self-published, with illustrations by Hardy's friend "Amb" Dyson, with the subtitle "a novel in three parts by Frank J. Hardy, Ross Franklyn". "Ross Franklyn" was the pseudonym Hardy had always used prior to ''Power Without Glory''. This combination of real name and pen name was also used in Hardy's 1961 book ''The Hard Way'' which describes the difficulties "Ross Franklyn" had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Hardy
Francis Joseph Hardy (21 March 1917 – 28 January 1994), published as Frank J. Hardy and also under the pseudonym Ross Franklyn, was an Australian novelist and writer. He is best known for his 1950 novel ''Power Without Glory'', and for his later political activism. He brought the plight of Aboriginal Australians to international attention with the publication of his book, ''The Unlucky Australians'', in 1968, written during the Gurindji Strike. He ran unsuccessfully for the Australian parliament twice as a Communist Party of Australia candidate. Early life Frank Hardy, the fifth of the eight children of Thomas and Winifred Hardy, was born on 21 March 1917 at Southern Cross in Western Victoria and later moved with his family to Bacchus Marsh, west of Melbourne.Hocking, Jenny. ''Frank Hardy: Politics, Literature, Life'' South Melbourne: Lothian Books: 2005; Armstrong, Pauline. ''Frank Hardy and the Making of Power Without Glory''. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. Adams, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1951. Events * 18 June – Frank Hardy is acquitted of criminal libel in the state of Victoria over his self-published 1950 '' roman à clef'' on corruption in Melbourne political life, '' Power Without Glory'' Books * Dymphna Cusack – '' Say No to Death'' * Dymphna Cusack and Florence James – '' Come In Spinner'' * Eric Lambert – ''The Twenty Thousand Thieves'' * Kenneth Mackenzie – ''Dead Men Rising'' * Ruth Park – '' The Witch's Thorn'' * Nevil Shute – ''Round the Bend'' * Dal Stivens – ''Jimmy Brockett'' * F. J. Thwaites – '' The Dark Abyss'' * E. V. Timms – '' The Valleys Beyond'' * Arthur Upfield – ''The New Shoe'' Short stories * Henrietta Drake-Brockman & Walter Murdoch – ''Australian Short Stories'' (edited) * Frank Hardy – ''The Man from Clinkapella and Other Prize-Winning Stories'' * T. A. G. Hungerford – "The Only One Who Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Australian Novels
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel ''Journey Through the Nig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Debut Novels
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel '' Journey Through the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
