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Arthur William Upfield: a biography
No full textThis dissertation is an exhaustive account of the life and work of Arthur William Upfield (1890-1964). It is presented as a critical biography and narrates the life of the writer, in his socio-cultural milieu, from birth. It also positions Upfield as a writer who dealt with issues of Aboriginality at a time when this was a singularly polemical subject. My work is informed by the theory of Zygmunt Bauman and others and is posited in the context of late-modern biography theory.
English-born, Upfield arrived in Australia in 1911 and took work in the bush, serving overseas with the Australian army at the outbreak of World War I and marrying an Australian army nurse in Egypt. Returning with his wife and son to Australia in 1921 he intermittently carried his swag until he was employed patrolling the Western Australian number 1 rabbit-proof fence for three years to 1931. By that time he had published four novels, including two crime novels featuring his fictional creation, the part-Aboriginal, part-European, Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ('Bony'), arguably the first fully-developed character in Australian popular fiction.
Leaving the fence, Upfield settled with his family in Perth and wrote full-time until joining the Melbourne Herald in 1933. Retrenched, he resumed career writing to be further interrupted by a war-time intelligence posting in 1939. In 1943 the first Bony mysteries were published in America, where Upfield's critical success was maintained until his death. In 1945 he left his wife for Jessica Uren, to whom he remained devoted.
Upfield's in all twenty-nine Bony novels, many of which have been translated across eleven languages, afforded him notable success both at home and abroad, in good part due to his descriptive gifts and the uniqueness of his fictional character, the part-Aboriginal Bony
Letter from Arthur Ringland to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from Arthur Ringland to Carl Hayden about road alignment survey through the Buggeln ranch
Letter from Arthur P. Bell to W. T. Johnson
No full textLetter from Arthur P. Bell to W. T. Johnson, concerning Recognition Program for A. N. McCoy
Letter from Arthur P. Bell to W. T. Johnson, M. S. Sanders, and W. T. Ellis
No full textLetter from Arthur P. Bell to W. T. Johnson, M. S. Sanders, and W. T. Ellis, concerning Teacher Education Seminar in Vocational Agriculture at A & T College
To Edith F. Brooke Green -- from Arthur T. Collins, 1896-1900
No full textFourteen letters written by Arthur T. Collins to Edith F. Brooke Green. Dates range from October 1896 to September 1900. Contains a long discussion of the "Martian canals" and astronomical observations
Letter from Very Rev. Msgr. Arthur T. Geoghegan (December 12, 1963)
No full textLetter from the Very Rev. Msgr. Arthur T. Geoghegan, chairman of Citizens United for a Fair Housing Law, to members of Citizens United urging them to attend a special meeting to discuss a fair housing bill.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/irving_fain/1005/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Arthur Floyd, Assistant Supervisor of Vocational Agriculture at Tuskegee Institute, to W. T. Johnson
No full textLetter from Arthur Floyd, Assistant Supervisor of Vocational Agriculture at Tuskegee Institute, to W. T. Johnson, giving statement on S. B. Simmons for camp dedication. Note with quote for souvenir program
Letter from W. T. Johnson to Arthur P. Bell
No full textLetter from W. T. Johnson to Arthur P. Bell, encouraging him in his Graduate Assistantship at Pennsylvania State University
Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough : with memoir.
No full text"Memoir of Arthur Hugh Clough": p. [vii]-li.Added t.p.: The poetical works of Arthur Hugh Clough.Mode of access: Internet
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