![]() One of the few works by Prichard written in the first person, it is presented as a series of letters from “Kit” (one of Prichard’s nicknames) to her mother. The focus of this paper is an earlier, obscure serial, “A City Girl in Central Australia” (1906), which is not simply a work of fiction which can be read autobiographically, but rather a work playfully positioned on the boundary of fiction and autobiography. Notably, Prichard invited an autobiographical interpretation of her children’s novel, The Wild Oats of Han (1928), while discouraging it for her novel Intimate Strangers (1937). As a biographer of the Australian novelist Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969), I have found different relationships between her fiction and her life. ![]() Literary biographers often interpret their subjects’ fiction autobiographically, an approach which has been condemned by some critics. ![]()
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