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Letters and telegrams on Andrew Inglis Clark's resignation from the Braddon Ministry, Tasmania, 1897-8
Get PDFLetters and telegrams on Andrew Inglis Clark's resignation from the Braddon Ministry, 1897-8, from A.H. Aspinall, E.N.C. Braddon, Gilbert E. Butler, William Cooke, P.O. Fysh, G. D'Emden, H.T. Gould, John Gunning, Charles W. Hazell, John Henry, Frederick Lodge, J.H. Macfarlane, Andrew Miller, F.J. Prichard, Richard Ross, W.H. Smith, F. Stephens, C.H. Talbot, Alfred A. Taylor, H. Thomas, G.J. Walford and J.N. Woolnough.
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The book about Braddon: sexual release as a prisoner and artistic fulfilment as an author
No full textRussell Braddon's legacy of war was at first destructive - almost fatally so. Ultimately, however, it became productive to a level that propelled him from being a suicidal university student to an author of international acclaim. Haunted by memories of his Burma Railway privations, he took an overdose of a tranquilliser and was confined to a psychiatric ward for five months. On release, Braddon found solace and a return to health through writing about his experiences in The Naked Island (published in 1951 and still in print). It is acknowledged as a classic war memoir, with estimated sales in excess of two million copies. Nigel Starck has recorded Braddon's life in a biography entitled Proud Australian Boy, released in 2011 under the Australian Scholarly Publishing imprint. In this Legacies of War chapter, he reflects on the challenges confronting a biographer whose subject achieved so much - in literature and in broadcasting - but who had destroyed his own memorabilia and correspondence
Rival sensations: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, her adapters, and the contest for cultural representation
No full text"In the nineteenth century, British playwrights exploited a loophole in the copyright law to adapt popular novels at will for the stage. This study documents this moment in theater and literary history to reveal the textual multiplicity that resulted when novels competed for audiences with several theatrical rivals. Mary Elizabeth Braddon, the best-selling author of Lady Audley's Secret and co-creator of the ""sensation"" novel, was a favorite with dramatists. By reading twelve of her novels in conjunction with the twenty-seven plays based upon them, this study shows how the authors define bourgeois propriety differently. These differences demonstrate the inherent multiplicity of ""the popular"" and expose the intensity of hegemonic conflict.""This dissertation shows how social position, gender, and aesthetic discourse shape the narrative choices that authors make in relation to particular representations. Chapter 1 locates the novels and plays in their aesthetic and cultural milieu. Subsequent chapters examine four specific points of conflict revealed by juxtaposing these works against one another: social class, heroic identity, criminality, and the theater itself. The second chapter traces how Braddon and the playwrights adopt bourgeois conventions of class, showing how Braddon uses these constructions to challenge social divisions based upon gender while the theater opens up representations of class to suit its more diverse audience. Chapter 3 considers how Braddon redefines gendered aspects of heroism while the adapters largely reinstate conventional gender identities. The fourth chapter examines the authors' different problems representing the criminal. It reveals how Braddon struggles to control the conflicting impulses of melodrama and realism while the adapters try to erase the stigma of criminality from the theater itself. Chapter 5 then shows how the dramatists' anxieties over theatrical ""character"" produce the phenomenon of theatrical self-erasure. It traces how the theater reconfigures Braddon's representations of theatrical work and thus writes itself out of the picture. The conclusion then argues for further study of adaptation as a way of understanding hegemonic processes."Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:03:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Papers found in a trunk: a descriptive assessment of the Braddon Family manuscript archive
Get PDFMary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) left a substantial number of unpublished manuscripts, letters, and notebooks at her death. These were inherited in the mid- 1990s by some of her descendents. They form what is known in this thesis as the Braddon Family Collection (BFC). The descriptive assessment of these manuscripts and papers is intended to shed light on the working methods of this prominent Victorian author. She also had a career as an actress in the 1850s, and as editor, critic, serial writer and hack journalist throughout the mid to late-nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century. These other facets of her life and work are borne out by the papers in the collection, and this assessment takes these aspects into consideration.
This thesis is formed in two parts. First, the evaluation of some of her published and unpublished writing, which seeks to represent her within the context of Victorian literary and theatrical culture. Then, the Appendices with critical and editorial notes and introductions to the text in each section, which offer a full transcript of the unpublished BFC material, including two of the late Notebooks and a transcript of a published article by Braddon that appeared in the #$%&( magazine in 1893.
Access to this collection has provided an opportunity for a valuable and timely appraisal of this important Victorian writer. This thesis attempts to offer an initial critical assessment and contextual study of the material in the BFC and an appraisal of Braddon’s work in the light of recent scholarship. The evidence in the collection accompanied by the critical evaluation of her work in this thesis will allow for a shift in focus away from how her career is typically defined, as a writer of sensation fiction. Grateful acknowledgement goes to the descendents of the Braddon and Maxwell families, without whose generosity this work would not have been possible
Thomas Hardy and sensationalism
Get PDFThomas Hardy launched his career as a novelist by writing a sensation story in Desperate Remedies. Although he abandoned sensationalism in the next novel, he returned to sensation elements in A Pair of Blue Eyes; and after this, he continually exploited these elements in fiction. In this thesis, seven novels covering almost the whole of his career are analysed in order to show his progress and the sensation elements which contributed to this development. Chapter 1 discusses the sensation tradition in English fiction, the sensation novel and sensationalism. Chapter 2: moves into Desperate Remedies; it examines the influence of sensation fiction on this novel. It also shows Hardy’s personal interests—his concerns for marital and sexual problems and taste for striking stories—which had much to do with his persistent employment of sensationalism. In Chapter 3: A Pair of Blue Eyes and A Laodicean are discussed. While he made good use of sensation elements in the former, he failed to do so in the latter. Chapter 4 deals with Far from the Madding Crowd and The Return of the Native. This chapter illustrates his advance: he came to develop sensation elements into useful narrative devices contributing to plot, theme or character. It also demonstrates that by means of these elements he could tackle marital problems, a theme which he expounded upon with more intensity in his later fiction. The final chapter is devoted to Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. It shows that he explored fully the marital and sexual issues he had treated with increasing fervour. He was able to do this, for by the 1890s he was extremely adept at handling sensation devices
Residential blocks for lease, division of O'Connor, Canberra [cartographic material] ; Residential & flat sites for lease, divisions of Ainslie, Braddon Reid & Turner Canberra, ACT ; Flat sites for lease, division of Forrest, Canberra, A.C.T. : offered by public auction at the Albert Hall Canberra Saturday 8th December 1951.
No full textSales plans of inner Canberra areas show streets, and size of blocks, with inset locality plans.; Auctioneers in conjunction: Woodgers & Calthorpe Ltd., R.A. McKillop & Co.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn423964; Buyers names and prices have been added to Ainslie map, Plan E. Plan D. Residential blocks ... O'Connor. [Sections 12, 13, 30, 29, 31 and locality plan -- Plan E. Residential & flat sites ...Ainslie, Braddon, Reid & Turner [including Sections 1,5,25 etc. Ainslie, 38 & 39 etc Turner, 15 Braddon, 2 Reid, and locality plan] -- Plan F. Flat sites ... Forrest [Section 33 and locality plan.Residential & flat sites for lease divisions of Ainslie, Braddon, Reid & Turner, Canberra, A.C.TFlat sites for lease, division of Forrest, Canberra A.C.
Double the Novels, Half the Recognition: Mary Elizabeth Braddon\u27s Contribution to the Evolution of the Victorian Novel.
Get PDFWhy do we read what we read? Janice Radway examines works that were not popular in an author\u27s time period, but now are affecting the construction of the canon. In her own words, Radway seeks to establish [popular literature] as something other than a watered-down version of a more authentic high culture [and] to present the middlebrow positively as a culture with its own particular substance and intellectual coherence (208). Mary Elizabeth Braddon\u27s novels were considered middlebrow and were very popular in Victorian England. Along with this facet, her heroines were considered controversial because they were not portrayed as what would be labeled a proper female in Victorian society. The popularity of her novels, her heroines, along with facets of her personal life, keep her from being recognized as one of the foremost authors in the Victorian period
ANU houses and flats: 64 Elimatta St, Braddon
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Borderlands Of Insanity In Dickens, Trollope, And Braddon.
No full textIn 1874 Henry Maudsley described "a borderland between crime and insanity, near one boundary of which we meet something of madness but more of sin, and near the other boundary of which something of sin but more of madness" (RMD 36). This interdisciplinary study links fictional representations of madness to professional discussions of melancholia, monomania, and puerperal insanity. Focusing on Tom Tiddler\u27s Ground, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, He Knew He Was Right, The Last Chronicle of Barset, and Lady Audley\u27s Secret, I investigate the boundaries each author imposes on the borderland, the position each novelist assigns his or her characters within the borderland, and the ways these representations participate in contemporary debates about the nature of insanity and its problematic relationship to moral and legal views of culpability.;Mr. Mopes, Miss Havisham, Mrs. Clennam, Louis Trevelyan, Josiah Crawley, and Lady Audley inhabit the borderland between insanity and culpability because their behavior resists simplistic categories. Their sins and crimes are mitigated by the presence of mad impulses and obsessive delusions, but their madness is called into question by their ability to act rationally and strategically. Thus, judgments of their behavior require not only medical distinctions between sanity and insanity but also political distinctions between legal and illegal acts and philosophical distinctions between moral and immoral acts.;My study also explores the individual interests and priorities of each author. Dickens examines several ways that excessive pride and self-imposed isolation prompt self-justifying obsessions that destroy mental and physical health. Like Dickens, Trollope is interested in the relationship between pride and depression, but his narratives include a more complex view of madness as relatives and neighbors are called upon to negotiate definitions of insanity and culpability. Braddon also asks her readers to consider the criteria for distinguishing acceptable and unacceptable behavior, specifically challenging alienist assumptions regarding female physiology and misogynist attitudes embedded in Victorian culture.;The study concludes with a discussion of the ways these fictional borderlands convey the subjective experience of madness and serve as catalysts for discussion of borderland issues regarding insanity and culpability
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