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dc.contributor.authorFisher, Jeremyen
local.source.editorEditor(s): Peter Kirkpatrick and Robert Dixonen
dc.date.accessioned2012-07-09T12:00:00Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.citationRepublics of Letters: Literary Communities in Australia, p. 249-256en
dc.identifier.isbn9781920899783en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/10635-
dc.description.abstractGerry Glaskin was quite a guy, and quite a writer. With a prodigious output across a range of genres, he wrote nine novels, a number of dramatic works, children's fiction, science fiction, romance and short stories. He was not a writer parsimonious with words. Even at school, Glaskin was known for his long essays. In his memoir 'One way to Wonderland' (1984) he writes: 'How often, when telling us the subject of an essay we must write, did Mr Constantine [the English teacher] insist that we should fill at least two pages of the ruled foolscap paper we used. "But you, Glaskin," he would inevitably add, "must confine yourself to no more than ten!"'. Glaskin's writing owed much to his life's experiences. Even in fictional form, the majority of his works are closely modelled on events that happened to him. And, as we shall see, his was not an inconsequential life. Gerry Glaskin was born in Perth on 16 December 1923. His parents struggled to make ends meet, even though, or perhaps because, they managed to have seven children, of whom Gerry was the eldest by some years. The boy was academically gifted and selected for a scholarship to study at the prestigious Perth Modern School, the alma mater of such prominent West Australians as H.C. Coombs, Kim Beazley Senior, Bob Hawke, Sir Paul Hasluck, playwright Alan Seymour, entertainer Rolf Harris, economist Ross Garnaut and businesswoman Janet Holmes a Court. The school was opened in 1911 as Western Australia's first public senior secondary school, and it remains Western Australia's only academically selective school today. Glaskin began his writing there. As his confidence in his own abilities grew, he communicated with local writers in his first attempts at becoming a published author.en
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dc.publisherSydney University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofRepublics of Letters: Literary Communities in Australiaen
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dc.title'He Lacks Almost All the Qualities of the Novelist': G.M. Glaskin and His Australian Contemporariesen
dc.typeBook Chapteren
dc.subject.keywordsAustralian Literature (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature)en
local.contributor.firstnameJeremyen
local.subject.for2008200502 Australian Literature (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature)en
local.subject.seo2008950203 Languages and Literatureen
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local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailjfishe23@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20120604-110419en
local.publisher.placeSydney, Australiaen
local.identifier.totalchapters23en
local.format.startpage249en
local.format.endpage256en
local.title.subtitleG.M. Glaskin and His Australian Contemporariesen
local.contributor.lastnameFisheren
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:10830en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitle'He Lacks Almost All the Qualities of the Novelist'en
local.output.categorydescriptionB1 Chapter in a Scholarly Booken
local.relation.urlhttp://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/sup/9781920899783en
local.relation.urlhttp://trove.nla.gov.au/work/165469417en
local.search.authorFisher, Jeremyen
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local.year.published2012en
local.subject.for2020470502 Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature)en
local.subject.seo2020130203 Literatureen
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