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Title: | An Irresistible Temptation: The true story of Jane New and a colonial scandal | Contributor(s): | Baxter, Carol (author) | Publication Date: | 2006 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/8515 | Abstract: | In literature as in life there are true stories and there are "true" stories. A current trend is the style known as "faction": creating a vivid story by interweaving fictionalised dialogue and description into a story about real people and events. The drawback for the reader is the uncertainty as to where fact ends and fiction begins; depending upon the author this can be anywhere along a wide spectrum. 'An Irresistible Temptation' is neither fiction nor faction; the characters, events and dialogue are all drawn from the wealth of records relating to the Jane New scandal. To generate a sense of immediacy, a feeling that the characters were living their own story rather than a narrator observing them, I used information from court testimonies, affidavits, letters, reports and newspaper articles to describe events as they happened, and I converted recollections into speech. Conversions were not always straightforward: words, phrases, sentences and even paragraphs sometimes had to be omitted, or words added, or the arrangement tweaked slightly for ease of comprehension. | Publication Type: | Book | Publisher: | Allen & Unwin | Place of Publication: | Sydney, Australia | ISBN: | 9781741149241 174114924X |
Fields of Research (FOR) 2008: | 210303 Australian History (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | HERDC Category Description: | A1 Authored Book - Scholarly | Publisher/associated links: | http://books.google.com.au/books?id=C_89j5Qxpr0C http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21036316 http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=94&book=9781741149241 |
Extent of Pages: | 422 |
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Appears in Collections: | Book |
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