Henrietta Drake-Brockman
Henrietta Drake-Brockman | |
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Born | 27 July 1901 |
Died | 8 March 1968 |
Alma mater | University of Western Australia |
Henrietta Drake-Brockman (27 July 1901 – 8 March 1968) was an Australian journalist and novelist.[1]
Early life
Henrietta Frances York Jull
Writing career
Both Henrietta and her husband wrote about their travels in articles for
Drake-Brockman edited and selected some Aboriginal tales, those collected and translated by K. Langloh Parker, for a new edition of Australian Legendary Tales in 1953. The illustrations were provided by Elizabeth Durack. This edition was chosen by the Children's Book Council of Australia as "Book of the Year" for 1954.[7] She was also co-editor with Walter Murdoch of Australian Short Stories.[8]
Playwriting career
Drake-Brockman also wrote for the theatre in Perth during the 1930s and '40s. Claiming that she would rather have been a playwright than a novelist, and that there were almost no opportunities for Australian plays when she had begun to write, Henrietta did manage to have some of her plays staged. The Man from the Bush was produced in Perth in 1932 (and later in Melbourne), Dampier's Ghost was performed in 1934 and The Blister in 1937. In her best-known play, Men Without Wives, she extended her work beyond the one-act genre and won a sesquicentenary drama prize in 1938. Men Without Wives and Other Plays was published in 1955. Her plays, for the most part, depicted the people and isolated places of her earlier fiction. She admired and wrote on the work of Katharine Susannah Prichard.
Later life
Drake-Brockman joined the Sydney branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers in 1939. She was one of the founders of the West Australian Branch, being the president in 1941 and also 1956–1957. She edited several collections of short stories and her own were compiled in Sydney or the Bush. She received an O.B.E in 1967, one year before her death in 1968.
Bibliography
Novels
- Drake-Brockman, Henrietta (c. 1930). The Disquieting Sex. Sydney: Consolidated Press. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- —— (1934). Blue North. Sydney: The Endeavour Press. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- —— (1936). Sheba Lane. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- —— (1937). Younger Sons. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- —— (1947). The Fatal Days. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- —— (1957). The Wicked and the Fair. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ——; Pelsaert, Francisco; Drok, E. D. (1995) [1963]. Voyage to Disaster: The Life of Francisco Pelsaert (New ed.). University of Western Australia Press. ISBN 978-1-875560-32-5.
Short stories
- Drake-Brockman, Henrietta (1948). Sydney or the Bush. Angus & Robertson, Sydney.
Essays
- Drake-Brockman, Henrietta (1967). Katharine Susannah Prichard (Australian writers and their work). Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Plays
- Drake-Brockman, Henrietta (1955). Men Without Wives and Other Plays. Angus & Robertson, Sydney.
Sources
- ^ Henrietta Drake-Brockman – biographical articles and obituaries on her death in 1968. The West Australian, 9 March 1968, (notice of death); 11 March 1968, (obituary)
- ^ see http://trove.nla.gov.au/picture/result?q=Henrietta+Drake+Brockman for family portraits of Jull family
- ^ "Jull, Martin Edward (1862–1917)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
- ^ Holmes, O.B.E.. M.C.., F.R.G.S., Charles (1 November 195). "How Walkabout Began". Walkabout. 25 (11): 9.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Drake-Brockman, Henrietta (1 January 1955). "The Wreck of the Batavia". Walkabout. 21 (1): 33–39.
- ^ Cowan, Peter, 'Drake-Brockman, Henrietta Frances York (1901–1968)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 14, Melbourne University Press, 1996, pp 34–35.
- ^ "S.A. Woman's Book of the Year". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 11 August 1954. p. 16. Retrieved 22 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ISBN 0-19-550619-7(First published as: Australian Short Stories, Oxford University Press, London, 1951.)
Further reading
- Adelaide, Debra Australian Women Writers: A Bibliographic Guide . London. Pandora. ISBN 0-86358-149-8
- Hetherington, John, (1962) Forty-two faces Melbourne : F.W. Cheshire: Profile of Western Australian author, with bibliography. pp. 60–65