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Dr Gillian Dooley is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of English, as well as Special Collections Librarian, at Flinders University in South Australia. See her staff business page for more information.
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Adelaide Review
Book reviews by Gillian Dooley for the Adelaide Review. -
Austen Music Transcripts
transcripts of a selection of items from the Austen family music collections owned by the Jane Austen’s House Museum and descendants of the Austen family, and held at the Hampshire Records Office, Winchester, and at Chawton ... -
Australian Book Review
Book reviews by Gillian Dooley for the Australian Book Review -
Literary Essays
Literary Essays by Gillian Dooley -
Writers Radio
Book reviews and interviews for Writers Radio on Radio Adelaide
Recent Submissions
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MARIANNE AND WILLOUGHBY, LUCY AND COLIN: BETRAYAL, SUFFERING, DEATH AND THE POETIC IMAGE
(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 ... -
Jessy, or the happy pair
(London Magazine, 1747)Song from Austen music collections, CHWJA/19/1:20. Transcribed from manuscript for performance. MS available online at https://archive.org/stream/austen1671414-2001#page/n41/mode/2up. Words found in 'The Poetical Works of ... -
Colin and Lucy: a ballad in seven parts for high voice and piano
(J. Dale, 1783)Colin and Lucy (1783), A ballad in seven parts for high voice and piano; Music by Tommaso Giordani (c1730-1806), Words by Thomas Tickell (1685-1740), Transcribed and arranged for vocal duet by Gillian Dooley (2017) from ... -
Jane Austen's Songs of the Sea [Concert program]
(South Australian Maritime Museum, 2017-11-04)Among the music in Jane Austen’s personal music collection are many songs about sailors and the sea. Britain was at war for most of Austen’s lifetime and two of her brothers were naval officers. The program includes songs ... -
Dirges and Sad Ditties from Jane Austen's Music Collection [concert program]
(Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities, 2017-07-16)Program for closing concert of Immortal Austen conference (Adelaide: July 2017) presented by Flinders University. Performers were Gillian Dooley, Nicola Hardie Beveridge, Chris Rawlinson, Kirstine Moffat and Alistair Knight. ... -
Review of 'Whaddaya Know?' Writings for Syd Harrex
(2016-06)Review of 'Whaddaya Know?' Writings for Syd Harrex edited by Ron Blaber. -
Matthew Flinders: the Man Behind the Map of Australia
(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.
(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.
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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.
(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.
(Writers Radio, Radio Adelaide, 2014-11-29)Review of Merciless Gods, short stories by Christos Tsiolkas. -
Review of 'The Twelfth Raven' by Doris Brett.
(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
(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
(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
(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.
(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 ...
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