Dark, Eleanor (1901-1985)

Also known as
Dark, Eleanor O'Reilly, (Mrs) (1901-1985)
O'Reilly, Eleanor (1901-1985)
Field of activity
Novelist
Libraries Australia
http://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an35104187
NLA Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-472530

Biographies

Eleanor Dark wrote for the Australian Women's Mirror and the Bulletin under the pseudonym of 'P.O'R': Pixie O'Reilly or Patricia O'Rane. Under her married name, she published Slow Dawning (1932), Prelude to Christopher (1934), Return to Coolami (1936), Sun Across the Sky (1937), Waterway (1938), The Timeless Land (1941), The Little Company (1945), Storm of Time (1948) and No Barrier (1953).

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Resources for Eleanor Dark

Selected resources (13)

Australian Women's Register

  1. Dark, Eleanor (1901 - 1985)Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Australian National University : Dark, Eleanor (1901 - 1985)
    Wyndham, Marivic
    [2006]
    Series: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170295b.htm
  2. Waterway
    Dark, Eleanor
    [1938]
    Published: Collins
  3. The Timeless Land
    Dark, Eleanor
    [1946]
    Published: Collins
  4. Sun Across the Sky
    Dark, Eleanor
    [1937]
    Published: Macmillan
  5. Storm of Time
    Dark, Eleanor
    [1948]
    Published: Collins
  6. Slow Dawning
    Dark, Eleanor
    [1932]
    Published: J. Long
  7. Return to Coolami
    Dark, Eleanor
    [1935]
    Published: Collins
  8. Prelude to Christopher
    Dark, Eleanor
    [1936]
    Published: Collins
  9. The Little Company
    Dark, Eleanor
    [1945]
    Published: Collins
  10. Lantana Lane
    Dark, Eleanor
    [1959]
    Published: Collins
  11. No Barrier
    Dark, Eleanor
    [1953]
    Published: Collins
  12. Eleanor Dark: RetrospectiveRefractory Girl 29 : Eleanor Dark: Retrospective
    Modjeska, Drusilla
    [1986]
  13. 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology
    Radi, Heather
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press

Resources by Eleanor Dark (21)

  1. No barrier / Eleanor Dark
    Dark, Eleanor, 1901-1985
    [ Book, Audio book : 1953-2002 ]
    At 90 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 57.423)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 57.423)

  2. The timeless land / Eleanor Dark
    Dark, Eleanor, 1901-1985
    [ Book, Audio book : 1941-2011 ]
    Languages: English, Japanese, Swedish, German
    read online at Open Library/Internet Archive
    View online
    At 138 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 31.127)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 31.127)

  3. Waterway / Eleanor Dark
    Dark, Eleanor, 1901-1985
    [ Book, Audio book : 1938-1990 ]
    At 66 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 30.653)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 30.653)

  4. The little company / by Eleanor Dark
    Dark, Eleanor, 1901-1985
    [ Book : 1945-2003 ]
    At 62 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 30.226)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 30.226)

  5. Storm of time / Eleanor Dark
    Dark, Eleanor, 1901-1985
    [ Book, Audio book : 1946-2002 ]
    At 96 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 27.025)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 27.025)

  6. Prelude to Christopher / Eleanor Dark
    Dark, Eleanor, 1901-1985
    [ Book : 1934-1999 ]
    At 60 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 26.309)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 26.309)

  7. Papers of Eleanor Dark
    Dark, Eleanor, 1901-1985
    [ Unpublished : 1923-1974 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 26.221)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 26.221)

  8. Lantana lane / Eleanor Dark
    Dark, Eleanor, 1901-1985
    [ Book, Audio book : 1959-2003 ]
    At 67 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 22.116)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 22.116)

  9. Return to Coolami / by Eleanor Dark ; introduced by Barbara Brooks with Judith Clark
    Dark, Eleanor, 1901-1985
    [ Book : 1936-1991 ]
    At 44 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.797)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.797)

  10. Papers of Eleanor Dark
    Dark, Eleanor, 1901-1985
    [ Unpublished : 1910-1974 ]
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.42)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.42)

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Resources about Eleanor Dark (34)

  1. No barrier / Eleanor Dark
    Dark, Eleanor, 1901-1985
    [ Book, Audio book : 1953-2002 ]
    At 90 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 55.575)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 55.575)

  2. Eleanor Dark : a writer's life / by Barbara Brooks with Judith Clark
    Brooks, Barbara
    [ Book : 1998 ]
    At 97 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 35.451)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 35.451)

  3. Papers of Eleanor Dark
    Dark, Eleanor, 1901-1985
    [ Unpublished : 1923-1974 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 25.911)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 25.911)

  4. Eleanor Dark / by A. Grove Day
    Day, A. Grove (Arthur Grove), 1904-1994
    [ Book : 1976 ]
    At 39 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 23.632)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 23.632)

  5. Papers of Eleanor Dark
    Dark, Eleanor, 1901-1985
    [ Unpublished : 1910-1974 ]
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.303)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.303)

  6. Papers
    Dark, Eleanor, 1901-1985
    [ Unpublished : 1923-1980 ]
    At State Library of NSW
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 17.925)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 17.925)

  7. Eleanor Dark interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection
    Dark, Eleanor, 1901-1985
    [ Sound : 1960-1961 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 17.078)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 17.078)

  8. The timeless land : the early days of British settlement in Australia
    Australian Broadcasting Commission
    [ Video : 2006 ]
    At 17 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 16.31)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 16.31)

  9. Newsletter (Friends of Varuna Committee)
    Friends of Varuna Committee
    [ Periodical : 1988-2011 ]
    At ADFA Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 15.56)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 15.56)

  10. A world-proof life : Eleanor Dark, a writer in her times / Marivic Wyndham
    Wyndham, Marivic
    [ Book : 1900-2007 ]
    Possibly online
    At 5 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 13.519)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 13.519)

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  1. Website: National Library of Australia staff papers
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  1. A World Proof Life: Eleanor Dark, a writer in her times, 1901-1985
    Wyndham, Marivic
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    Languages: en, English
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  2. Eleanor Dark papers: family history of the O'Reilly and Dark families
    Dark, Eleanor, 1901-
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  3. Representations of the mother-figure in the novels of Katharine Susannah Prichard and Eleanor Dark
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  4. Representations of the mother-figure in the novels of Katherine Susannah Prichard and Eleanor Dark / Jenny Austin Noble
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    Shapiro, Karl
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  3. Papers of Tom Inglis Moore
    Moore, T. Inglis (Tom Inglis), 1901-1978
    [ Unpublished : 1918-1978 ]
    At National Library
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    Languages: English, German, Italian, [10 others]
    read online at Open Library/Internet Archive
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    At 124 libraries
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  2. Among the Deep Sea Fishers, Volume 38, Issue 4 (January 1941)
    [ Map, Periodical : 1941 ]
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  1. 'A World-Proof Life': Eleanor Dark, a Writer in Her Times, 1901-1985.(Book review)
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    Australian Historical Studies
    [ Article : 2009 ]
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  2. Dark, Eleanor: A World-Proof Life': Eleanor Dark, a Writer in Her Times, 1901-1985.(Brief article)(Book review)
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  3. The Novels of Eleanor Bark
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  4. Newsletter (Varuna, a Writers' Centre)
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  1. Pollyanna / Eleanor H. Porter
    Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman), 1868-1920
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    At 84 libraries
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  2. Pollyanna grows up / Eleanor H. Porter
    Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman), 1868-1920
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    At 49 libraries
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    Atkinson, Eleanor, 1863-1942
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  4. The thief taker / Janet Gleeson
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  1. ELEANOR DARK'S NEW BOOK
    The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Thursday 10 May 1945 p 4 Article
    ... ELEANOR DARK'S NEW BOOK NEW NKW YORK, May 9 (A.A.P.).- P ) - William McFee, reviewing; Eleanor Dark's "The Little Company" in the New York "Sun," says it is evidence of the great creative vitality of Aus- tralia. 4 ... 39 words
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  2. NEW NOVELS... ELEANOR DARK AND RUTH PARK AGAIN
    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956) Saturday 27 June 1953 p 8 Article
    ... NEW NOVELS . . . ELEANOR DARK AND RUTH PARK AGAIN reviewed by GEOFFREY HUTTON A CASUAL reader of ... Timeless Land," Eleanor Dark' has now reached the days of Mac- quarie when our history, in ... subjects for novels lying around which our writers seem shy of touching. No Barrier, by Eleanor Dark. ... 832 words
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    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 1.045)

  3. LITERARY GOLD MEDAL. Awarded to Eleanor Dark. MELBOURNE, October 22.
    Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1885 - 1954) Wednesday 23 October 1935 p 8 Article
    ... LITERARY GOLD MEDAL. Awarded to Eleanor Dark. MELBOURNE. October 22. The Australian Literature Society announced last night that the sub-committee committee appointed to select the best Australian novel published In 1934 had chosen 'A Prelude to Christopher,' by Mrs. Eleanor Dark, daughter of the ... 57 words
    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.846)

    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.846)