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Q&A with Paul Eggert and Chris Vening, editors of The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle
Chris Vening is an independent researcher in Australian colonial culture and a major contributor to the Charles Harpur Critical Archive.
Paul Eggert FAHA is Professor Emeritus at Loyola University Chicago and the University of New South Wales. He is a scholarly editor, book historian and editorial theorist.
Q & A with Denise Varney, author of Patrick White’s Theatre
Denise Varney is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches Australian theatre and performance, and modern and contemporary drama. Her new book, Patrick White’s Theatre: Australian Modernism on Stage, 1960–2018, explores how White’s plays have been staged and received over a period of 60 years, and offers a new analysis of his place in wider Australian modernist and theatrical traditions.
Image: a production of The Ham Funeral by Patrick White, State Theatre Company of South Australia.
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop, rediscovered
By Cherie Baird
I must admit that before I started interning at Sydney University Press, I had never heard of Eliza Hamilton Dunlop. Even being so...