10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUZZLEHEADED»
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puzzleheaded in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The puzzleheaded girl of the title novella, Honor Lawrence, is a young New York filing clerk whose motives her mentor, Augustus Debrett, finds impossible to understand.
Barby, the professional adventuress, and Linda, the professional victim, both land
on their feet, but for all their frenzied searching each remains essentially a '
puzzleheaded girl', unhappy with her lot yet unable to change it. Although much
like ...
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Christina Stead: A Biography
... 268, 314, 408, 444,520 publishing history205,543 critical response2056, 219 (
original titles:The Young Man Witt Go Far, TheTravelling Scholar) 'The Captain's
House' (Ocean)373 'The Dianas' (Puzzleheaded)454 'The Gentle Supervisor'47 ...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
... puzzle-headedness conduced to celebrity, and who, by the way, defended his
opinions with singular skill. He had once maintained at a dinner party that most
men who have attained suddenly and rapidly to fame have been puzzleheaded.
He had once maintained at a dinner party that most men who have attained
suddenly and rapidly to fame have been puzzleheaded. " What do you say,"
objected one of the company, “to Mr. Pitt? He was an admired statesman at the
age of ...
John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, 1877
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The Magic Phrase: Critical Essays on Christina Stead
The Puzzleheaded Girl Samuels, Charles Thomas. "The Puzzling Miss Stead".
New Republic, 9 September 1967, pp.30- 1. Sokolov, Raymond. "Not-So-
lnnocents Abroad". Newsweek, 11 September 1967, pp. 55-6. MacManus,
Patricia.
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature
... puzzle-headedness conduced to celebrity, and who, by the way, defended his
opinions with singular skill. He had once maintained at a dinner party that most
men who have attained suddenly and rapidly to fame have been puzzleheaded.
John Holmes Agnew, Henry T. Steele, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, 1877
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The Bibliography of Australian Literature: P-Z
... Rightangled Creek: a sort of ghost story] Rome, Italy: Theoria, 1992. In Italian.
Translated by Paola Frandini. Original title: The Rightangled Creek. First
published in The Puzzleheaded Girl (see above). Biblioteca di Letteratura
Fantastica; 16.
John Arnold, John Hay, 2009
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The Memsahibs: The Women of Victorian India
But it wasvery quiet. There were two other white menin Nepal: an Assistant
Resident who was 'bullyingand overbearing with azigzag notion oftruth', in
Honoria's view, and adoctor whowas 'ignorant and puzzleheaded'. Sometimes
the isolation ...
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Real Relations: The Feminist Politics of Form in Australian ...
9-35; Diana Brydon, Christina Stead (London: Macmillan, 1985); Michael Wilding
, "Christina Stead's The Puzzleheaded Girl: the Political Context" in Words and
Wordsmiths: a Volume for H.L. Rogers edited by Geraldine Barnes et al, (Sydney:
...
