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Pauline Barratt’s Around the Channon. The Channon: 1999, which appeared after I had written ‘The Clover Chain’, is a public rather than a private account of the area.

  Erich Maria Remarque. All Quiet on the Western Front. London: Putnam, 1980.

  C. E. W. Bean. The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, 12 th Edition. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1941.

  The anonymous The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk. Philadelphia: Peterson, 1836, purports to be a narrative of [Maria’s] sufferings during her residence of five years as a novice, and two years as a black nun, in the ‘hotel du nunnery’, at Montreal.

  Barbara Baynton’s Human Toll (originally published in London in 1907), is available in S. Krimmer and A. Lawson, eds. Barbara Baynton. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1980.

  2਀਀I Always Was Lucky

  The quotation from the Sydney Morning Herald on the first page of this chapter refers to the research of one Professor McGuffin and a team of medical experts at the University of Cardiff.

  My mother’s copy of Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure (leather-bound) is the London: Macmillan, 1922 edition.

  Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles. London: Macmillan, 1974 (first published 1891).

  Nathanial Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter. New York: Penguin, 1970 (first published 1850).

  The Henry Kendall quotations in this and the next chapter are from his ‘The Great Clarence River Flood of 1862’ which first appeared in ‘The Sketcher’ column of The Australasian on 2 April 1870. It is reproduced in R. McDougall ed. Henry Kendall: The Muse of Australia. Armidale: CALLS, 1992, pp. 117–21.

  3਀਀Maps of Memory

  May Gibbs. The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1982 (first published 1918).

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, a well-known illustrator of children’s books, populated the Australian bush with fanciful European fairies and elves.

  Ethel Pedley. Dot and the Kangaroo. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1980 (first published 1899).

  Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows. London: Methuen, 1971 (first published 1908).

  Humphrey Carpenter ed. The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

  Maurice Ryan’s Time and Tide: A History of Byron Bay. Lismore: Northern Star, 1984, has added to my knowledge and refreshed my memory on a number of historical points. The quotation concerning the opening of the jetty is from p. 33 of Time and Tide.

  Mary Gilmore’s statement that the Clarence River ran red with [Aboriginal] blood is from her More Recollections. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1935, p. 243.

  4਀਀Night Thoughts

  For an account of the crash of the Airacobra on 8 September 1942 see A. Schafer. ‘Anniversary of U.S. Fighter’s Crash Landing’ in the Daily Examiner (Grafton). 8 September 1992.

  The quotation is from T. Heinz, ‘Crash Memories’ (letter in reply to the above). Daily Examiner (Grafton). 15 September 1992.

  A. Schafer and F. Mack eds. Bombers over Grafton. Grafton: Clarence River Historical Society, 1992. Schafer and Mack’s account, which includes eye-witness testimonies, corresponds with my own memories.

  David Horner. Blamey: The Commander-in-Chief Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1998, and David Day. John Curtin: a life. Sydney: HarperCollins, 1999, have added to my understanding of the events of the 1939-45 war.

  Mikhail Sholokhov. And Quiet Flows the Don. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1941.

  Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (trans. Edward FitzGerald). London: A. & C. Black, 1912.

  The radio serial ‘Dad and Dave’ was based on Steele Rudd (Arthur Hoey Davis). On Our Selection. Sydney: The Bulletin, 1899.

  F. T. Palgrave. The Golden Treasury. London: Collins, 1899 (first published 1860).

  Edgar Allan Poe. The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination. London: Octopus, 1981.

  5਀਀The Flame

  Rosemary Dobson. In a Convex Mirror. Sydney: Dymocks, 1944.

  Hugh McCrae. Forests of Pan. Brisbane: Meanjin, 1944.

  Judith Wright. The Moving Image. Brisbane: Meanjin, 1946. ‘Nigger’s Leap, New England’ is from The Moving Image.

  R. B. Walker. Old New England. Sydney: University of Sydney Press, 1966.

  My memories of Armidale Teachers’ College and S. H. Smith House have been refreshed and augmented by:

  E. S. Elphick and L. A. Gilbert. A Short Illustrated History of the First Fifty Years of Teacher Education in Armidale. Armidale: ACAE Publications, 1978.

  L. A. Gilbert. Mr Smith, Mr Jones and a Time of Bliss: An outline History of S. H. Smith House. Armidale: ACAE Publications, 1987.

  The account of the electrocution of Dr Barnet appears on p. 95 of Mr Smith, Mr Jones and a Time of Bliss.

  The Shakespearian quotations on the subject of love are from Othello. London: Methuen, 1963, Act I. Sc. 3. 11. 335–36; Act I. Sc. 3. 11. 67–68.

  6਀਀An Island Too Far

  Anecdotes concerning Kincumber orphanage at the turn of the century were supplied by my late father-in-law Edward Walker. Bill McLeod, who was in the orphanage at the same time, was also interviewed by my husband and verified the story of the punishment for bed-wetting.

  Paul Gardiner. An Extraordinary Australian: Mary MacKillop. Sydney: E. J. Dwyer, 1993.

  Grantley Dick Read. The Revelation of Childbirth. London: 1942.

  7਀਀Peninsula

  Brenda Walker. ‘Over Mountains and Black Water’ in Carmel Bird, ed. Daughters & Fathers. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1997, pp. 19–20.

  ‘Down by the Salley Gardens’ and ‘A Prayer for my Daughter’ in W. B. Yeats. Collected Poems. London: Macmillan, 1965, pp. 22 and 211.

  Bewoulf and the Fight at Finsburg (trans. M. Alexander). The Earliest English Poems. London: Penguin, 1966, pp. 45–56.

  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (trans. B. Stone). London: Penguin, 1964.

  An account of Dr Bailey’s deep sleep therapy and its consequences can be found in B. Bromberger and J. Fife-Yeomans. Deep Sleep: Harry Bailey and the Scandal of Chelmsford. Sydney: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

  I am indebted to the Clarence Flood Mitigation Authority for the Clarence River flood-heights.

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  Roundabout at Bangalow: An Intimate Chronicle

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