Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 03:03:51 EDT
From: gane-AT-umbsky.cc.umb.edu
Subject: Australia, Dickens, and John Edward Eyre


Chris, Thanks for an informative posting on Dickens in Australia.  As for 
Edward John Eyre as inspiration for Voss, I checked my source, and what it 
actually says--without documentation or further discussion--is "The 
intensity of the experience recorded in Eyre's journals gave Patrick White 
the impetus to write the novel _Voss_"  (Geoffrey Dutton, _The Hero as 
Murderer:  The Life of Edward John Eyre_ 15).

Gill Gane     English Department, UMass-Boston     gane-AT-umbsky.cc.umb.edu


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