A House is Built

A House is Built (1929) is the first novel of M. Barnard Eldershaw, the joint pseudonym of Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw. It was written as a result of their seeing an advertisement for The Bulletin prize. The novel won this prize in 1928, shared with Katharine Susannah Prichard's Coonardoo. It was originally serialised in The Bulletin under the title, The Quartermaster.[1]

A House is Built
Harrap 1965 reprint
AuthorM. Barnard Eldershaw
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherGeorge G. Harrap and Co.
Publication date
1929
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages359pp
ISBN0-7270-0970-2
OCLC27538444

Plot introduction

The novel centres on James Hyde and his family. A former Royal Navy quartermaster, in 1837 Hyde sets up a business in early Sydney. He brings his family to Australia and would have his sons and grandsons continue his business. They are either disinclined to take up the business or more interested in the Australian gold-fields. His daughter Fanny has all the qualities needed to continue the family business. Constricted by gender stereotypes, Hyde, his business, and his family fall into tragedy.

gollark: Awful internet infrastructure, though.
gollark: In the UK we have a relatively reliable power grid even out here in the middle of Nowhere (Nowhere is otherwise known as the north east).
gollark: This is PHP, not sanity.
gollark: Ah, but it will.
gollark: They're doing it later.

References
  1. Goodwin, Ken (1986) A history of Australian literature ("Macmillan history of literature" series), Basingstoke, Macmillan, p. 79


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.