Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883–1969)
Auteur de Coonardoo
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Œuvres de Katharine Susannah Prichard
N'goola, and other stories 4 exemplaires
Straight left: Articles and addresses on politics, literature, and women's affairs over almost 60 years, from… (1982) 3 exemplaires
Fay's circus 3 exemplaires
The Gray Horse 2 exemplaires
Potch and colour 2 exemplaires
Happiness 2 exemplaires
On strenuous wings : a half-century of selected writings from the works of Katherine Susannah Prichard 1 exemplaire
The Curse 1 exemplaire
Why I am a Communist 1 exemplaire
The real Russia 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Happy Endings: Stories by Australian and New Zealand Women, 1850S-1930s (1987) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Short Stories of the Australian Experience: Textbook (Diesterwegs Neusprachliche Bibliothek - Englische Abteilung) (2010) — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
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- Nom canonique
- Prichard, Katharine Susannah
- Autres noms
- Throssell, Mrs. Hugo
- Date de naissance
- 1883-12-04
- Date de décès
- 1969-10-02
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieu de naissance
- Levuka, Fiji
- Lieu du décès
- Greenmount, Western Australia, Australia
- Lieux de résidence
- Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
London, England, UK - Études
- South Melbourne College
- Professions
- novelist
short-story writer
dramatist
poet
journalist
autobiographer - Relations
- Throssell, Ric (son)
Throssell, Karen (granddaughter) - Organisations
- Communist Party of Australia (founding member)
- Courte biographie
- Katharine Susannah Prichard was born in Fiji and spent her childhood in Tasmania, before moving to Melbourne, Australia, where her father, a newspaper editor, was the editor of the Melbourne Sun. She won a scholarship to South Melbourne College and then worked as a governess and journalist. She went on assignment to Europe in 1908 and stayed in London and Paris for several years. Her first novel, The Pioneers, was the winner of a newspaper competition and was published in 1915. After her return to Australia, she published the romance Windlestraws and her first novel of a mining community, Black Opal. She married Captain Hugo "Jim" Throssell, a hero of World War I, with whom she had one son, and in 1920 moved with him to Western Australia, where she lived for the rest of her life. In her personal life, she always referred to herself as Mrs Hugo Throssell. In 1921, she became a founding member of the Communist Party of Australia and also founded several left-wing women's groups. In the 1920s, she wrote the two novels that would make her Australia's first internationally recognized writer: Working Bullocks (1926) and Coonardoo (1929). During the 1930s, she campaigned in support of the Republic in Spain and other anti-fascist causes. With the novel Intimate Strangers (1937) she began to promote the cause of peace and social justice. Her massive work, The Goldfields Trilogy -- comprising The Roaring Nineties (1946), Golden Miles (1948), and Winged Seeds (1950) -- explored social and personal histories in Western Australia's goldfields from the 1890s to 1946. She also wrote 10 plays, five collections of short stories, two films, and two volumes of poetry. Her autobiography was called The Child of the Hurricane (1964), after the events surrounding her birth.
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- Œuvres
- 25
- Aussi par
- 9
- Membres
- 556
- Popularité
- #44,900
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 18
- ISBN
- 58
- Favoris
- 1
At the same time, this book is incredibly challenging 90 years after its publication. In retrospect the approach to Aboriginal life is, as others have said, "animalistic". Pritchard was looking through colonial eyes, perhaps inevitably. The gender politics are also uncomfortable now, and the power dynamics unsettling. Anyway, that's all been said elsewhere in some lovely reviews by Goodreads folk. Coonardoo was a trailblazer for its time, and that's probably what remains important about it.… (plus d'informations)