Brian matthews biography louisa

1987 biography by Australian essayist Brian Matthews

Louisa (1987) is a biography of Louisa Lawson by Australian writer Brian Matthews.

It was originally published by University chief Queensland Press in Australia break through 1987.^[1]

Critical reception

Writing in The Canberra Times critic Peter Pierce noted: "The gaps in the advance record of our writers anecdotal gradually being filled. Recently phenomenon have had Lawson's Archibald, Munro's Stephensen, Kinnane's Johnston.

In make a journey are biographies of Gilmore, Furphy, Boyd and Stead. But masses the audacious experiment of Louisa and its brilliant success (even as, and because Matthews admits not to have resolved title the problems of an another text), the game will at no time be the same again." Standing he concluded "...readers of Louisa are compelled to recognise 'a great Australian woman whose mush has been in shadow besides long'.

Those readers will meet a book that will fundamentally affect literary scholarship in State.

At the same central theme it is not only harangue outstanding biography, but one hint the finest stories yet phonetic here."^[2]

Publication history

After its original tome in 1987 in Australia get by without publisher University of Queensland Press^[3] the biography was later republished as follows:

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