Clara Morison
| Author | Catherine Helen Spence |
|---|---|
| Publisher | John W. Parker & Sons |
Publication date | 1854 |
Clara Morison: A Tale of South Australia During the Gold Fever is an 1854 novel by Catherine Helen Spence.
In a 1977 Bulletin review, Geoffrey Dutton claimed that it was "the first intelligent Australian novel written from within Australian life".[1]
General references
- ^ Dutton, Geoffrey (24 September 1977). "A Masterpiece rescued from oblivion". The Bulletin. 099 (5076). Retrieved 12 October 2025 – via Trove.
- Hammond, Lee (1995). "Catherine Helen Spence's Clara Morison: A Tale of South Australia During the Gold Fever". Cabbages and Kings. 23: 3–9. ISSN 0310-1584.
- Uhr, John (2020). "Catherine Spence's Clara Morison". Novel Politics: Studies in Australian Political Fiction. Carlton: Melbourne University Press. pp. 29–44. ISBN 9780522875973.
- Sharp, Sarah (2019). "'Your vocation is marriage': systematic colonisation, the marriage plot and finding home in Catherine Helen Spence's Clara Morison (1854)". Scottish Literary Review. 11 (1): 27–45. hdl:2164/15330. ISSN 2050-6678.
- Smith, Rosalind (2001). "Clara Morison: The politics of feminine heterotopia". Southerly. Vol. 61, no. 3. pp. 40–51. ISSN 0038-3732.
- Magarey, Susan (2010) [1985]. Unbridling the Tongues of Women: A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press. ISBN 978-0-9806723-1-2. Retrieved 6 October 2025.