The country of lost children: an Australian anxiety

Abstract

Part I. In the Nineteenth Century: Discovering the Lost Child: 1. The lost child introduced: Henry Kingsley's The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn 2. 'Come let us sing of this fair child heroic': Jane Duff and her brothers 3. Alfred Boulter A Monument at Daylesford 4. Marcus Clarke's Lost Children 5. The case of Clara Crosbie 6. Frederick McCubbin's Images of the Lost Child 7. Fairytales of the 1890s 8. The bush balladists' turn 9. Mrs Praed and the punishment of Mrs Tregaskiss 10. Henry Lawson and 'The Babies in the Bush' 11. Joseph Furphy's 'Perfect Young-Australian' Part II. In the Twentieth Century: The Child Abandoned: 1. In the theatre 2. In fiction 3. Book into film 4. True stories Works consulted Index.