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White Topee
''White Topee'' (1954) is a novel by Australian writer Eve Langley. Plot summary The novel is set in Gippsland, Victoria, which is depicted as an idyllic place with peoples from many nations working on the land in harmony. The novel is a sequel of sorts to the author's earlier book ''The Pea-Pickers ''The Pea-Pickers'' is a novel by the Australian writer Eve Langley, first published in 1942. It is a first person, semi-autobiographical narrative about two sisters who travel in the 1920s to Gippsland, and other rural areas, to work as agricult ...'', and features the same characters two years later. Critical reception Peter Harding, writing in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', found the novel "is, more than anything else, a poem. Plain prose and formal verse intersperse many of its 250 pages, but much of it is a poem disguised as prose. The poem is about Australia and Italians, and about a poet's ecstatic, anguished memories of youth in Gippsland and probably somewhere in nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Langley
Eve Langley (1 September 1904 – c. 1 June 1974), born Ethel Jane Langley, was an Australian-New Zealand novelist and poet. Her novels belong to a tradition of Australian women's writing that explores the conflict between being an artist and being a woman. Life Langley was born in Forbes, New South Wales, the eldest daughter of carpenter Arthur Alexander Langley (died 1915), and his wife Myra, née Davidson, both of whom came from Victoria. Eve's mother was disinherited as the result of her marriage and the family spent much of its life in poverty. After Arthur died, Myra returned to Victoria, initially managing her brother's hotel at Crossover. Eve and her sister June attended several schools in New South Wales and Victoria, including Brunswick Central and Dandenong State Schools, and Dandenong High School.Thwaite (2000) In the 1920s Eve and her sister worked their way around the countryside of Gippsland as agricultural labourers, which experience forms the base of her first ... [...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 Pea-Pickers
''The Pea-Pickers'' is a novel by the Australian writer Eve Langley, first published in 1942. It is a first person, semi-autobiographical narrative about two sisters who travel in the 1920s to Gippsland, and other rural areas, to work as agricultural labourers. It shared the 1940 S. H. Prior Memorial Prize (run by ''The Bulletin'') with Kylie Tennant's ''The Battlers''. ''The Pea-Pickers'' received much critical acclaim when it was published, but then interest lapsed and, in the next few decades, it received only "sporadic critical attention".Arkin (1981) p. 109 It has been discussed briefly in studies of the Australian novel, but by the early 1980s, only Douglas Stewart had done a lengthy analysis of it. However, in 2001 it was re-released by Angus and Robertson in their Classics series. It has been described as "one of the more extraordinary novels of the first half of the twentieth century in terms of pastoral imagery".Falkiner (1992) p. 153 The book was not written until the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1954. Events * Charlotte Jay (pseudonym of Geraldine Halls) won the inaugural Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel for '' Beat Not the Bones'' Books * James Aldridge – ''Heroes of the Empty View'' * Jon Cleary – ''The Climate of Courage'' * Miles Franklin – '' Cockatoos : A Story of Youth and Exodists'' * Catherine Gaskin – ''Sara Dane'' * T. A. G. Hungerford – ''Sowers of the Wind : A Novel of the Occupation of Japan'' * Eric Lambert ** ''The Five Bright Stars'' ** ''The Veterans'' * Eve Langley – ''White Topee'' * Kenneth Mackenzie – '' The Refuge'' * Alan Moorehead – ''A Summer Night'' * E. V. Timms – '' The Fury'' * Judah Waten – ''The Unbending'' Crime and mystery * Charlotte Jay — '' Beat Not the Bones'' * Arthur Upfield ** ''Death of a Lake'' ** ''Sinister Stones'' Short stories * A. Bertram Chandler – "Shadow Before" * David Martin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 Australian Novels
Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations. * January 21 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
