Welcome back to yet another Friday Book Giveaway Traces readers! This week's spotlight book is Pendragon - The life of George Issacs, colonial wordsmith written by Anne Black, all thanks to our friends at Wakefield Press.
When the colonial writer George Isaacs died in Adelaide on Valentine's Day 1876, he was quickly dispatched to the West Terrace Cemetery and buried without pomp. His grave was unmarked by a stone, his memory damned for posterity by the obituary soon published in the South Australian Register labelling him 'a thorough Bohemian'. Such was the end of the overlooked author of the first novel published in South Australia.
Despite the availability of rich primary sources, his significance has been overlooked until now. As an inaugural study, Pendragon: The life of George Isaacs, colonial wordsmith contributes a valuable strand to the knowledge of Australian colonial literature. On a more intimate level, it is a paradigm of a colonial scribe - a case study of one immigrant's struggles to live as a writer in colonial Australia.
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