| For an overview of Rosa's life see her entry in either {{http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/praed-rosa-caroline-8095|The Australian Dictionary of Biography}} or Wikipedia [[wp>Rosa_Campbell_Praed|Rosa Praed]] or the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. For a definitive biography, see Patricia Clarke, //Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, novelist and spiritualist//, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999. There are many articles about Rosa Praed and her writing: a search in the database AustLit yields 393 hits.((https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/search/page?query=Rosa+Praed&scope=all&facetSampleSize=0&facetValuesSize=0&blendMax=y&count=50)) Most anthologies of 19th and early 20th century Australian writers include her, especially those on female authors. She was extensively reported in the newspapers of her day; when she died leading Australian newspapers acknowledged her as, for example, 'The first Australian-born novelist of any importance.'((//SMH//, 20 November 1936)) and 'the first Australian-born novelist worthy of consideration in Australian literature'.((//The Courier-Mail//, 27 April 1935.)) More recently her writings have been explored for the impact of indigenous dispossession. ((McKay, Belinda. 'A Lovely Land ... by Shadows Dark Untainted'?: Whiteness and Early Queensland Women's Writing [online]. In: Moreton-Robinson, Aileen (Editor). Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2004: 148-163. Availability: <https://search-informit-com-au.ezproxy.sl.nsw.gov.au/documentSummary;dn=413912230742820;res=IELIND> ISBN: 0855754656; Jennifer Rutherford, 'Melancholy Secrets: Rosa Praed’s Encrypted Father', Double Dialogues, no. 8, summer 2007-06. Both accessed September 2018; Patrica Grimshaw and Julie Evans, 'Colonial women on intercultural frontiers: Rosa Campbell Praed, Mary Bundock and Katie Langloh Parker', //Australian Historical Studies//, 27:106, April 1996.pp.79-96.)) \\ | For an overview of Rosa's life see her entry in either {{http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/praed-rosa-caroline-8095|The Australian Dictionary of Biography}} or Wikipedia [[wp>Rosa_Campbell_Praed|Rosa Praed]] or the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. For a definitive biography, see Patricia Clarke, //Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, novelist and spiritualist//, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999. There are many articles about Rosa Praed and her writing: a search in the database AustLit yields 393 hits.((https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/search/page?query=Rosa+Praed&scope=all&facetSampleSize=0&facetValuesSize=0&blendMax=y&count=50)) Most anthologies of 19th and early 20th century Australian writers include her, especially those on female authors. She was extensively reported in the newspapers of her day; when she died leading Australian newspapers acknowledged her as, for example, 'The first Australian-born novelist of any importance.'((//SMH//, 20 November 1936)) and 'the first Australian-born novelist worthy of consideration in Australian literature'.((//The Courier-Mail//, 27 April 1935.)) More recently her writings have been explored for the impact of indigenous dispossession. ((McKay, Belinda. 'A Lovely Land ... by Shadows Dark Untainted'?: Whiteness and Early Queensland Women's Writing [online]. In: Moreton-Robinson, Aileen (Editor). Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2004: 148-163. Availability: <https://search-informit-com-au.ezproxy.sl.nsw.gov.au/documentSummary;dn=413912230742820;res=IELIND> ISBN: 0855754656; Jennifer Rutherford, 'Melancholy Secrets: Rosa Praed’s Encrypted Father', Double Dialogues, no. 8, summer 2007-06. Both accessed September 2018; Patrica Grimshaw and Julie Evans, 'Colonial women on intercultural frontiers: Rosa Campbell Praed, Mary Bundock and Katie Langloh Parker', //Australian Historical Studies//, 27:106, April 1996.pp.79-96.)) \\ |