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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Marjorie Faith Barnard
The writing partnership of Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw, who published together under the pseudonym of M. Barnard Eldershaw, is recognized as one of the most successful and enduring collaborations in Australian literary history. In a shared career spanning nearly twenty years, Barnard and Eldershaw cowrote five novels in addition to writing short stories, critical articles, volumes of history, and a significant collection of literary criticism. While their first novel, A House Is Built, which appeared in 1929, enjoyed enormous popular success, recent critical attention has focused primarily upon their controversial final novel, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, an ambitious dystopian novel that was subjected to wartime censorship prior to publication as Tomorrow and Tomorrow in 1947 and, as a result, was not published in full until 1983. The two authors made few public statements about their shared writing routine; the scarcity of information has led to substantial curiosity and speculation...
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