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Nathan Hobby | A Biographer in Perth
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A Biographer in Perth. A PhD student's journey into the life of Katharine Susannah Prichard and the art of biography. Author Archives: Nathan Hobby. At work on a biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard as a creative writing PhD at the University of Western Australia. Also a novelist and librarian. November 6, 2016. Dark Night by Martin Edmond: a review. Dark Night: Walking with McCahon. Martin Edmond (Auckland University Press, 2011). Posted in biographical quests. October 27, 2016. October 25, 2016.
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Finding “critical utility” for literary biography: a summary and initial response to Philip Holden | A Biographer in Perth
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A Biographer in Perth. A PhD student's journey into the life of Katharine Susannah Prichard and the art of biography. August 5, 2015. Finding “critical utility” for literary biography: a summary and initial response to Philip Holden. This post, I warn you, is a response to an academic journal article. If you find it boring or incomprehensible, please do come again another time – you’re likely to encounter something of broader appeal. To approach literary biography in this way is to privilege experimental...
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An Unsentimental Bloke wins the National Biography Award | A Biographer in Perth
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A Biographer in Perth. A PhD student's journey into the life of Katharine Susannah Prichard and the art of biography. August 7, 2015. An Unsentimental Bloke wins the National Biography Award. Congratulations to Philip Butterss, whose biography of CJ Dennis,. An Unsentimental Bloke,. Won the National Biography Award of Australia. On Monday. A battered old copy of CJ Dennis’s. The Many Worlds of RH Mathews. A generalisation, I realise. Good to see a book from one of the smaller publishers win – well ...
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Certain Admissions: true crime as biography | A Biographer in Perth
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A Biographer in Perth. A PhD student's journey into the life of Katharine Susannah Prichard and the art of biography. July 28, 2015. Certain Admissions: true crime as biography. Certain Admissions: A Beach, A Body and a Lifetime of Secrets. By Gideon Haigh (Penguin, 2015). By now I was running out of time, for while stories can ramify indefinitely, books must be contained, ruled off, set down. Perhaps inconclusion had always been this one’s fate, the events being so long ago, the key survivors so few...
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The untold story of Critchley Parker Sr | A Biographer in Perth
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A Biographer in Perth. A PhD student's journey into the life of Katharine Susannah Prichard and the art of biography. August 1, 2015. The untold story of Critchley Parker Sr. My impression is that the history of journalists and newspapers in colonial Australia, and particularly Melbourne, is largely untapped. I wish someone had tracked more closely the movements of Frank “Critchley” Parker (1862-1944). In Katharine’s autobiography, her father, Tom Prichard, made. The Sun: The Society Courier. And if it w...
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Dump Pickings | A Biographer in Perth
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A Biographer in Perth. A PhD student's journey into the life of Katharine Susannah Prichard and the art of biography. August 3, 2015. Over on her blog in another amusing and insightful post, Laura Sewell Matter’s biographical quest takes her to the rubbish dump, the one named after the wife of her subject. What a meta-moment! This entry was posted on Monday, August 3rd, 2015 at 9:53 am and tagged with Laura Sewell Matter. And posted in links. The untold story of Critchley Parker Sr. You are commenting us...