Today I feel like Margaret Mitchell with her draft of 'Gone With The Wind', a suitcase full of unfinished chapters, multiple drafts of chapters and about six months of revision ahead of me to complete a first 'complete' 'First Draft'. Looking through the folders of drafts and re-drafts and mergers I feel quite amazed that I have written so much and quite daunted at the task of making sure this tome is grammatically error free with no errant full stops or semi-colons and follows a line of logical arguments paragraph by paragraph through eighty thousand words. There is no holiday from a PhD. It is always there lurking: looking for connections, seeking the undiscovered and reminding of the need to write, write, write.
A new connection today delighted me. Ernst mentioned again.The Librarian opened The Age and there was a two page article on Sister Agnes and her fairy tales (October 24, p. 18-19). Interestingly, the full article Told in the Bush: Sister Agnes and her tales in the Griffith Review which I downloaded last night in e-form mentions that the title Fairy Tales Told in the Bush is very similar to Ernst's title Fairy Tales from the Land of the Wattle. I have been looking for a connection between Ernst and Sister Agnes as I also noticed some similarities in content.
Sister Agnes was an Anglican nun in Healesville and during the time that Ernst was probably attending St. Bartholomew's Anglican church in Ferntree Gully. I wonder if they met? The Monash Fairy Tale Salon and Griffin Review has an event to celebrate the publication of this Griffin Review: Once Upon a Time in Oz on Thursday 7th November at 6.30. To book email: griffithreview@griffith.edu.au
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