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From dust jacket: Vision is the story of an Australian girl, of middle-class family, who to share in a fortune, marries an Englishman who is the owner of large impoverished estates in England. They hate each other cordially at the opening of the story, but six months’ enforced companionship on a lonely station in Eastern Gippsland transforms their hatred into love. They discover a beautiful valley back in the hills which fires the imagination of Valmai who sees in it an ideal place for a settlement. Then Richard’s mother arrives from England accompanied by Cynthia to whom Dick has been practically engaged. Valmai forestalls the inevitable result by running away from the man and the home she loves ; but Dick discovers after she has fled how much she means to him and he sets out to make her vision settlement come true. The rest of the story tells of his efforts to do this, of how he moves an entire village from England to Vision, of the failure of the settlement and of its re-birth."
The novel was submitted to the Bulletin novel competition in 1928 or 1929. See 'The Australian Bookman' The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1950) 9 July 1932: 13. It didn't win but did receive publication.
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Author's name appears as Anne on the title-page and as Ann on the cover.
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AustLit has scanned this novel with the permission of Dorothy Blewett's estate holders.
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Australia Through Her Books
1933
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— Appears in: The Daily News , 7 January 1933; (p. 12) -
Mostly Personal
1931
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— Appears in: The Western Mail , 2 April 1931; (p. 5) -
A Brilliant First Novel
1931
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— Appears in: The Land , 27 March 1931; (p. 2) -
New Novels
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— Appears in: The Australasian , 11 April vol. 130 no. 4292 1931; (p. 5) -
Notes in Passing
1931
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— Appears in: The West Australian , 28 Mar 1931; (p. 4)
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A Reader's Notebook
1931
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— Appears in: All About Books , 17 April vol. 3 no. 4 1931; (p. 85-87)
— Review of Tybal Men 1931 single work novel ; Vision : A Novel 1931 single work novel -
This Year's Australian Literature
1931
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— Appears in: All About Books , 1 December vol. 3 no. 12 1931; (p. 227)
— Review of Songs and Poems : With an Introductory Essay on Poetry in Australia 1931 selected work poetry ; The Poor Poet and the Beautiful Lady 1931 selected work poetry ; Saturday Mornings 1931 single work prose ; Tybal Men 1931 single work novel ; Trinity 1931 single work novel ; Vision : A Novel 1931 single work novel ; Bracken 1928 single work novel ; Macleod of 'The Bulletin' : The Life and Work of William Macleod 1931 single work biography Palmer reviews some new Australian novels and gives an overview of those published throughout 1931. Also includes comment on Australian Authors' Week in London. -
Untitled
1931
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— Appears in: The Bulletin , 6 May vol. 52 no. 2673 1931; (p. 5)
— Review of Vision : A Novel 1931 single work novel -
Recent Books Reviewed
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— Appears in: The Herald , 11 April no. 16817 1931; (p. 21)
— Review of Vision : A Novel 1931 single work novelIncludes reviews of other works outside of AustLit's scope.
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People and Places in the Books of '31
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— Appears in: Northern Affairs , 4 December vol. 1 no. 8 1931; (p. 18) Kennedy identifies what he considers to be the best Australian literature published in 1931. -
New Books
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— Appears in: The Age , 18 April 1931; (p. 6) -
Australia Through Her Books
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— Appears in: The Daily News , 7 January 1933; (p. 12) -
Fiction
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— Appears in: The Australasian , 18 April vol. 130 no. 4293 1931; (p. 5) -
A First Novel
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— Appears in: The Cairns Post , 31 March no. 9101 1931; (p. 3)A First Novel. News has been received from London of the publishing of a first novel of a Melbourne girl. Under the pen name of Anne Praize, Miss Dorothy Blewett of this city has written a novel highly praised by a publisher's reader in London, who predicts that Anne Praize is an authoress with an assured future. Educated in Melbourne at the Methodist Ladies' College, Miss Blewett was in her Iast year of school life editress of the school magazine. She has called her book "Vision," and it is described as a book truthfully representing the freedom and space of Australia. For some time past people have been asking with emphasis when is there to appear the hitherto unwritten Australian masterpiece. Perhaps "Vision" may prove the answer to this question.
- Gippsland, Victoria,
- 1910-1930