Mavis Thorpe Clark (1909–1999)
Auteur de The Min-Min
A propos de l'auteur
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) Also known as Mavis Rose Latham (maiden name) and M.R.Clark (pen name).
Œuvres de Mavis Thorpe Clark
Das Erz in den Bergen. 2 exemplaires
Jingaroo 2 exemplaires
Als der Tag in Flammen stand 1 exemplaire
Nur der Himmel ist frei 1 exemplaire
Als der Tag in Flammen stand. 1 exemplaire
The Hundred Birds 1 exemplaire
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- Nom légal
- Latham, Mavis Rose (married name)
- Autres noms
- Clark, M. R.
Clark, Thorpe (pseudonym) - Date de naissance
- 1909-06-26
- Date de décès
- 1999-07-08
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieu de naissance
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Lieu du décès
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Lieux de résidence
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Études
- Methodist Ladies’ College, Melbourne
- Professions
- novelist
- Courte biographie
- Mavis Thorpe Clark, born in Melbourne, Australia, began writing as a child. She published her first story for children in The Australasian newspaper at age 14. She wrote her first full-length children's novel at age 18 and published it a few years later in 1930.
In 1932, she married Harold Latham, with whom she had two daughters. She became a prolific writer, mainly for children and teenagers, but she also produced biographies, other nonfiction works, and many articles, short stories, and scripts for newspaper, magazines, and radio.
Mavis Thorpe Clark loved the Australian outback. During the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s she traveled extensively in South Australia and Western Australia gathering material for her work.
In 1967, she won the Children's Book Council of the Year award for The Min-Min, which was set in the South Australia outback. - Notice de désambigüisation
- Also known as Mavis Rose Latham (maiden name) and M.R.Clark (pen name).
Membres
Critiques
The twins from Timber Creek. par Clark Mavis Thorpe
Thorpe, Clark Mavis. The twins from Timber Creek. Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press (1949,) Hardback. The story starts quite well, introducing Elizabeth May whose mother prefers to call her daughter Elizabeth rather than Liz or Lizzie.Okay, I accept that but why then choose by line 20 of the first page a totally unsuitable name. 'His dog [Pete's], Nigger' ...and it all goes pear shaped there. This was 1949.
This biography provides references to the football career of prominent Aboriginal leader Doug Nicholls in three chapters titled ‘Doug Makes the Team’, (pp. 51-56), ‘The Flying Abo’(pp. 56-67) and ‘Change of Course’ (pp. 74-83). Nicholls played for Northcote in the VFA and then briefly for Fitzroy in the 1930s. One of the more interesting stories in the book is Nicholls’ account of the kindness and respect shown to him by legendary player Haydn Bunton, which was apparently in contrast to other team mates at Fitzroy and previously Carlton.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 31
- Membres
- 208
- Popularité
- #106,482
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 48
- Langues
- 2