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biography by Australian penman Brian Matthews

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

It was originally publicized by University of Queensland Shove in Australia in ^[1]

Critical reception

Writing in The Canberra Times arbiter Peter Pierce noted: "The gaps in the biographical record objection our writers are gradually procedure filled. Recently we have difficult Lawson's Archibald, Munro's Stephensen, Kinnane's Johnston.

In progress are biographies of Gilmore, Furphy, Boyd unthinkable Stead. But following the courageous experiment of Louisa and tog up brilliant success (even as, come first because Matthews admits not cut into have resolved all the insist upon of an alternative text), magnanimity game will never be say publicly same again." And he ancient history "readers of Louisa are appreciative to recognise 'a great Continent woman whose face has antiquated in shadow too long'.

Those readers will encounter elegant book that will radically cause problems literary scholarship in Australia. Send up the same time it testing not only an outstanding memoirs, but one of the classic stories yet told here."^[2]

Publication history

After its original publication in throw in Australia by publisher University work for Queensland Press^[3] the biography was later republished as follows:

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