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Clara Morison
novel by Spence
Also known as: “Clara Morison: A Tale of South Australia During the Gold Fever”
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Australian literature
- In Australian literature: The century after settlement
Catherine Helen Spence’s Clara Morison (1854) details with a nice sense of irony the social preoccupations of Adelaide in the mid-19th century, but it was not a well-known novel.
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discussed in biography
- In Catherine Helen Spence: Novelist, journalist, and social critic
Her first novel was Clara Morison: A Tale of South Australia During the Gold Fever, which was published anonymously in two volumes in 1854. It is generally considered the first novel written by a woman of European descent about, and in, Australia, although it was not well known at…
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