Wards of the Outer March

Wards of the Outer March is a 1932 Australian novel by Kay Glasson Taylor. It was the tale of a convict in colonial New South Wales.[1][2][3][4] The book had been serialised by the Australian Woman's Mirror in 1930 under the pseudonym Daniel Hamline, with illustrations by Percy Lindsay.[5][6]

Proposed film version

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Charles Chauvel bought the film rights.[7]

In the 1950s he and his wife Elsa wrote a film script of the novel for Warwick Pictures.[8] The film was scheduled for filming in August 1956.[9] However it was not made.[10]

References

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  1. ^ "GEORGE HAS DONE IT". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. 2, no. 113. New South Wales, Australia. 25 June 1932. p. 3. Retrieved 29 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "In Those Bad Old Days". Weekly Times. No. 3409. Victoria, Australia. 28 January 1933. p. 26 (FIRST EDITION). Retrieved 29 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "New Thoughts On Thinking". The Herald. No. 17, 212. Victoria, Australia. 14 July 1932. p. 26. Retrieved 29 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "AN AUSTRALIAN ROMANCE". The Age. No. 24095. Victoria, Australia. 2 July 1932. p. 4. Retrieved 29 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ Hamline, Daniel (15 April 1930). "Wards of the Outer March". The Australian Woman's Mirror. 6 (21). Retrieved 2024-03-30 – via Trove.
  6. ^ Hamline, Daniel (22 July 1930). "Wards of the Outer March". The Australian Woman's Mirror. 6 (35). Retrieved 2024-03-30 – via Trove.
  7. ^ "AUSTRALIAN PICTURES". Chronicle. Vol. 88, no. 5036. South Australia. 27 June 1946. p. 25. Retrieved 29 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "Chauvels Film Australia for A.B.C. TV Audiences", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, 27 October 1956, nla.obj-1317820138, retrieved 29 March 2024 – via Trove
  9. ^ "Filmmakers headed for Australia". The Age. 22 May 1956. p. 13.
  10. ^ Cunningham, Stuart (28 March 2015). "Charles Chauvel: The Last Decade".
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