Brian Matthews
Brian Matthews reviews 'Literary Links: Celebrating the literary relationship between Australia and Britain' by Roslyn Russell
Brian Matthews
Sunday, 01 February 1987
I’ve always wanted to begin by declaring an interest. Roslyn Russell’s Literary Links gives me at last the opportunity I’ve been waiting for: so, I declare an interest – and only some very stern editing will prevent me from saying why!
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Published in
February–March 1987, no. 88
Brian Matthews reviews 'Cutting Green Hay: Friendships, movements and cultural conflicts in Australia's great decades' by Vincent Buckley
Brian Matthews
Monday, 01 August 1983
On his first day at St Patrick’s, East Melbourne, Vincent Buckley was ‘flogged and flogged’ by a Jesuit priest in ‘an incompetent fury’. It is an experience that many of his readers will easily recognise, though their remembered lambastings were more likely to have been incurred at the hands of the Brothers and, unlike Buckley’s, would have been a continuing feature of school life.
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Published in
August 1983, no. 53