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Ride On Stranger (novel)
''Ride on Stranger'' (1943) is a novel by Australian writer Kylie Tennant. Plot summary The novel follows the story of Shannon Hicks, a country girl who arrives in Sydney just before the outbreak of World War II and proceeds to make her way through city life. Critical reception The reviewer in ''The Advertiser'' found a lot to like but not much plot: "there is much that is genuinely interesting in the book: a great deal of rather malicious humor. unmerciful debunking, racy descriptions of things that are completely and uniquely Australian, and a sincere appreciation of the Australian character." The reviewer in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' came to a similar conclusion: "In her latest novel. Miss Tennant displays all those qualities which placed her, in 1935, in the front rank of Australian writers of fiction. The reader will meet here an assortment of easily comprehensible and fantastic men and women, equal in colour and variety to those met in "Foveaux" and "The Battlers." T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kylie Tennant
Kathleen Kylie Tennant AO (; 12 March 1912 – 28 February 1988) was an Australian novelist, playwright, short-story writer, critic, biographer, and historian. Early life and career Tennant was born in Manly, New South Wales; she was educated at Brighton College in Manly and Sydney University, though she left without graduating. She was a publicity officer for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, as well as working as a journalist, union organiser, reviewer (for ''The Sydney Morning Herald''), a publisher's literary adviser and editor, and a member of the Commonwealth Literary Fund advisory board. She married L. C. Rodd in 1933; they had two children (a daughter, Benison, in 1946 and a son, John Laurence, in 1951). Her work was known for its well-researched, realistic, yet positive portrayals of the lives of the underprivileged in Australia. In a video interview filmed in 1986, three years before her death, for the Australia Council's Archival Film Series, Tennant told ... [...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] |
Angus And Robertson
Angus & Robertson (A&R) is a major Australian bookseller, publisher and printer. As book publishers, A&R has contributed substantially to the promotion and development of Australian literature.Alison, Jennifer (2001). "Publishers and editors: Angus & Robertson, 1888–1945". In: ''The History of the Book in Australia 1891–1945''. (Edited by Martyn Lyons & John Arnold), pp. 27–36. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press. This well known Australian brand currently exists as an online shop owned by online bookseller Booktopia. The Angus & Robertson imprint is still seen in books published by HarperCollins, a News Corporation company. Bookselling history The first bookstore was opened in 110½ Market Street, Sydney by Scotsman David Mackenzie Angus (1855-1901) in 1884; it initially sold only secondhand books. In 1886, he went into partnership with fellow Scot George Robertson. This George Robertson should not be confused with his older contemporary, George Robertson th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Battlers (novel)
''The Battlers'' (1941) is a novel by Australian author Kylie Tennant. It won the ALS Gold Medal in 1942. Plot summary The novel follows the journeys of a group of Australian men and women roaming the countryside looking for work during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Notes * Epigraph: To the "Battlers"/I wonder where they are now?/They will never read this, never know it is written./Somewhere a dirty crew of vagabonds,/Blasphemous, generous, cunning and friendly,/Travels the track; and wherever it takes them,/Part of me follows". Reviews Reviewer "R.K." in ''The Age'', in an overview of the author's novels, stated: "she tells the story of several extraordinary characters who are ordinary enough 'on the tramp.' Here is the 'busker,' 'Snowy,' 'the 'postle' and — perhaps herself — 'the stray,' such a gathering as would provoke the pen of Priestley. There is something akin to the great English writer in the outlook of this young Australian. She lacks his boisterous, overflo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ride On Stranger
''Ride on Stranger'' is a 1979 Australian mini series about a woman in the 1930s, based on the novel of the same name by Australian author Kylie Tennant.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995'', Oxford University Press, 1996 p227 Cast * Liddy Clark as Shannon Jones * Noni Hazlehurst as Beryl * Michael Aitkens as John Terry * Henri Szeps as Vincent Sladde * Barbara Wyndon as Aunt Edith * Warwick Sims as Damien Quilter * Peter Carroll as Mervyn Leggatt * John Bluthal as Joseph Litchin * Moya O'Sullivan as Ada Jones * Ron Graham as Darcey Jones * Bunney Brooke as Grannie Jones * Noel Trevarthen as Chaverin Brome * Debra Lawrence as Jenny References External links''Ride on Stranger''at Australian Television *''Ride on Stranger''at Australian Screen Online The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Schultz
Carl Schultz (born 1939) is a Hungarian-Australian film director. Early life and works He left his native Budapest during the uprising of 1956 with his brother Otto Schultz. They fled to England, and after arriving in London they moved to Manchester. In 1958, Schultz emigrated to Australia by himself, where he worked for Australian TV, first as a cameraman, and then as a director.Peter Beilby & Rod Bishop, "Carl Schultz", ''Cinema Papers'', Jan-Feb 1979 p207-209, 242 Professional career In 1978, he directed his first feature film, ''Blue Fin'', starring Hardy Kruger. His more notable film credits include '' Careful, He Might Hear You'', winner of eight Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Director and Best Film; ''Travelling North'', with Leo McKern; and ''The Seventh Sign'', starring Demi Moore and Jürgen Prochnow. Awards * 1982 — Nominated AFI Award Best Direction for: Goodbye Paradise (1983) * 1983 — Won AFI Award Best Director for: Careful, He Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Yeldham
Peter Alan Yeldham (25 April 1927 – 20 September 2022) was an Australian screenwriter for motion pictures and television, playwright and novelist. Biography Peter Yeldham was born in Gladstone, near Smithtown, New South Wales, in 1927. Leaving Knox Grammar School at 16, Yeldham briefly became a jackaroo in Queensland. Then he returned to Sydney to join Radio 2GB, first as a messenger boy and then became junior scriptwriter. He wrote several scripts and a weekly column for the magazine ''The Listener In'' before being called up for the army at 18, going to Japan with the Occupation Force, where he served with the radio unit. After returning to civilian life he married and worked freelance, writing ''Famous Trials'', ''Medical File'', ''Night Beat'', ''The Golden Cobweb'', ''For The Defence'', and many other programs that he largely originated for Grace Gibson Productions. He also attempted to join the Sydney Morning Herald as a cadet journalist but was told they only accept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liddy Clark
Elizabeth Anne Clark (born 6 November 1953 in Adelaide, South Australia), is an Australian former politician with the Labor Party in the Queensland Legislature who held the seat for Clayfield and also an actress of television and film, director, producer and presenter, credited as Liddy Clark and Liddy Clarke. Acting career She has various credits in film and television to her name. Film credits include ''Mad Dog Morgan'', ''Blue Fin'', ''The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith'', ''Touch and Go'''', Kitty and the Bagman'' and ''Annie's Coming Out''. She is possibly best known for her two small screen roles in the cult series ''Prisoner''. She played child killer Bella Albrecht for two episodes in 1979 and Sharon Smart, the victim of a crooked religious cult, for six episodes in 1983. In 1988, Clark played the role of battered wife Kerry Barlow in ''Home and Away''. She was a regular cast member in the series ''Fire'' and has also made guest appearances in ''Cop Shop'', ''Matlock P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noni Hazlehurst
Leonie Elva "Noni" Hazlehurst , (born 17 August 1953) is an Australian actress, director, writer, presenter and broadcaster who has appeared on television and radio, in dramas, mini-series and made for television films, as well also on stage and in feature films since the early 1970s. Hazlehurst has been honoured with numerous awards including Australian Film Institute Awards, ARIA Awards and Logies, including being inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016. Early life Hazlehurst was born in Melbourne. After attending St Leonard's College in Brighton East, Victoria, Hazlehurst studied Drama at Flinders University in South Australia from 1971 to 1973, where she resided at Flinders University Hall and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974. She has studied ballet, singing, piano, speech and drama. In the 1980s and 1990s, much of her work concentrated on children's television. Her parents were both English, and migrated to Australia in 1951. Television work Alon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Szeps
Henri Szeps OAM, (born 2 October 1943) alternatively Henry Szeps, is an Australian character actor of theatre and television. He has also featured in films and worked in voice roles, and has worked in productions in the United Kingdom. Early life Szeps was born in Lausanne, Switzerland to Polish parents. Due to the German invasion of Poland during World War II, his parents fled to France in 1938. His father left the family to join the French Resistance. In 1943, his mother and three-year-old sister made their way to a refugee camp in Lausanne, where Henri was born. At 1 months he was fostered to a Swiss couple in Blumenstein. His mother reclaimed him when he was three years old, and returned to the Swiss couple when he was 4. He was reclaimed by his mother to Paris, and due to her illness, at the age of six was placed at the Rothschild Orphanage. He came to Sydney, Australia at the age of eight in 1951 or 1952 with his mother and sister. Career Szeps studied acting at Ensem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1943. Books * Max Harris – ''The Vegetative Eye'' * Michael Innes – '' The Weight of the Evidence'' * G. B. Lancaster – ''Grand Parade'' * Philip Lindsay – ''The Devil and King John'' * Kylie Tennant ** ''Ride on Stranger'' ** ''Time Enough Later'' Children's * May Gibbs – ''Mr. & Mrs. Bear and Friends'' * P. L. Travers – ''Mary Poppins Opens the Door'' Short stories * Marjorie Barnard – ''The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories'' * James Hackston – "Father Clears Out" * Myra Morris – "Going Home" * Dal Stivens – "The Perch" Poetry * David Campbell ** "Men in Green" ** "Soldier's Song" ** "The Stockman" * Norma Davis — "Awakening" * Rosemary Dobson – "Child with a Cockatoo" * A. D. Hope – "Observation Car" * Rex Ingamells – ''New Song in an Old Land'' (edited) * Will Lawson – ''Bush Verses'' * Kenneth Slessor – "A Bushranger" * Dougl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 Australian Novels
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – WWII: Greek-Polish athlete and saboteur Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz is executed by the Germans at Kaisariani. * January 11 ** The United States and United Kingdom revise previously unequal treaty relationships with the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China. ** Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City. * January 13 – Anti-Nazi protests in Sofia result in 200 arrests and 36 executions. * January 14 – January 24, 24 – WWII: Casablanca Conference: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud of the Free French forces meet secretly at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, to plan the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
