Turning Fact into Fiction: The 1857 Hornet Bank Massacre, 2005

Containers:

Box 12 (MS Acc16.034)

Component identifier:

File 67

Content Summary:

Notes, material for talk and article, comparing the fictional treatment of the 1857 Hornet Bank Massacre in Rosa Praed's autobiographical and fictional works, based on her father's memoirs and her own unreliable childhood memories, with an account of a similar incident in Charles de Boos' novel, Fifty Years Ago, based on newspaper reports. Talk ISAA lunch meeting, High Court, 16 August 2005; published Margin, 65, April 2005, pp. 8-17. Congratulatory letter from Beverley Kingston (6 July 2005).

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Patricia Clarke were donated to the National Library under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme (now the Cultural Gifts Program (CGP)) in 1990, 1994 and 1997. Further donations were received via CGP in 2006 and 2011.

Subjects:

History
Literature

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