• The Library at Soho Square: Matthew Flinders, Sir Joseph Banks and the Publication of A Voyage to Terra Australis. 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (Bibliographical Society of ANZ, 2017)

  An account of Matthew Flinders' research and writing of the introduction to his Voyage to Terra Australis, including his use of London libraries like that of Sir Joseph Banks.

• MARIANNE AND WILLOUGHBY, LUCY AND COLIN: BETRAYAL, SUFFERING, DEATH AND THE POETIC IMAGE 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (Mimesis, 2018)

  Many of the song lyrics in Jane Austen’s personal music books (some collected or transcribed by her, some inherited or passed on from family members) are couched in the sentimental poetic diction prevalent in the eighteenth ...

• Review of 'Whaddaya Know?' Writings for Syd Harrex 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (2016-06)

  Review of 'Whaddaya Know?' Writings for Syd Harrex edited by Ron Blaber.

• Matthew Flinders: the Man Behind the Map of Australia 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (Royal Society of Victoria, 2015)

  In 1925, W.H. Langham wrote of Matthew Flinders that he possessed ‘a personality of singular strength and charm.’ In this lecture, Gillian Dooley will look to the primary sources to build up a portrait of this man who was ...

• 'No family, no wife, no friends, no infidelities': Wives Present and Absent in Naipaul's Autobiographical Fiction. 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (South Asian Review, 2015)

  V.S. Naipaul’s 1987 novel The Enigma of Arrival is set in the 1970s in the Wiltshire countryside where Naipaul lived with his wife for 10 years. In this novel, Naipaul has explicitly identified the narrator with his own ...

• Review of 'The Profilist: the notebooks of Ethan Dibble' by Adrian Mitchell. 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (Historical Society of South Australia, 2015)

  Review of 'The Profilist: the notebooks of Ethan Dibble' by Adrian Mitchell. This is a novel based loosely on the life of colonial artist Samuel Thomas Gill.

• Review of 'An Unsentimental Bloke: the life and work of C.J. Dennis' by Philip Butterss 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (Historical Society of South Australia, 2015)

  Review of 'An Unsentimental Bloke: The lIfe and work of C.J. Dennis' by Philip Butterss (Wakefield Press, 2014).

• Of Men and Music 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (Jane Austen's Regency World, 2015-09)

  A discussion of the relationship between music and Jane Austen's male characters.

• 'No moral effect on the mind': Music and education in Mansfield Park 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (Jane Austen Society (UK), 2014)

  A discussion of the way Austen uses music and musicianship in Mansfield Park to illuminate her characters, and the place of music in women's education.

• Feste Ansichten in his own person: J.M. Coetzee speaks 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (Media Tropes, 2014)

  Three recent books by J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello (2003), Diary of a Bad Year (2007), and Here and Now (2013), have included extensive expressions of opinion. The wide-ranging discussions in these books cover topics ...

• Review of 'Letters to the End of Love' by Yvette Walker. 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (Writers Radio, Radio Adelaide, 2014-12-13)

  Review of 'Letters to the End of Love' by Yvette Walker.

• Review of Merciless Gods by Christos Tsiolkas. 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (Writers Radio, Radio Adelaide, 2014-11-29)

  Review of Merciless Gods, short stories by Christos Tsiolkas.

• Review of 'The Twelfth Raven' by Doris Brett. 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (Writers Radio, Radio Adelaide., 2014-11-01)

  Review of 'The Twelfth Raven: a memoir of stroke, love and recovery' by Doris Brett.

• Review of 'Infidelity' by Hugh Mackay 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (Writers Radio, Radio Adelaide., 2014-11-01)

  Review of 'Infidelity', a novel by Hugh Mackay.

• 'A Dozy City': Adelaide in J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man and Amy T. Matthews's End of the Night Girl 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (Adelaide University Press, 2013)

  Since Salman Rushdie’s comments about Adelaide at Writers’ Week in 1984, the city has become notorious for being a place of bizarre murders and unexplained disappearances, and this impression has been encouraged by a number ...

• Every Reader is a Stranger: The Novels of Tabish Khair 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (Roman Books, 2013)

  A study of Tabish Khair's first two novels, 'The Bus Stopped' and 'Filming'

• Looking Back in Anger: The Transformation of Childhood Memories in Two West Indian Novels. 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (Pencraft International, 2013)

  Anger, for all its negative aspects, can provide creative urges which produce works of art of great power. The anger of the adult writer is often directed against the forces which tried to control and repress that writer ...

• 'You are my Australia': Brian Medlin's contribution to Iris Murdoch’s concept of Australia in The Green Knight 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (American Association of Australasian Literary Studies, 2011-12)

  Australian radical and philosopher Brian Medlin met Iris Murdoch at Oxford in the early 1960s, and the correspondence between them, now held at Flinders University in South Australia, covers a period of more than twenty ...

• 'Naipaul's Women Revisited' 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (South Asian Review, 2012-12)

  This article is a reconsideration of V.S. Naipaul’s attitude toward women, following from the author’s 2005 article “Naipaul’s Women.” Various recent statements Naipaul has made about female authors, including Diana Athill ...

• Getting to Know Matthew: A Personal Account of Editing Flinders' Private Journal. 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (L'Harmattan, 2006)

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