A Tennant Bibliography

Compiled by Ross Burnet
Burnet's Books, Uralla, NSW, 2358

Kylie Tennant was born in Manly, NSW, in 1912, and educated at Brighton College and Sydney University. She married L.C. Rodd in 1933 and had a daughter Benison in 1946 and a son John Laurence in 1951. She worked as a publicity officer for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and as a journalist, union organiser, reviewer for The Sydney Morning Herald, publisher's literary adviser and editor, and Commonwealth Literary Fund lecturer. Her literary work covered a broad spectrum and included novels, plays, short stories, children's books, literary criticsim, biography, and history.

1. Tiburon. Sydney: Endeavour Press, 1935. First published in serial form in The Bulletin, 1935. (Fiction, the depression)

2. Foveaux. London: Gollancz, 1939. Sydney: Sirius, 1946. (Fiction, Sydney slums)

3. The Battlers. London: Gollancz, 1941. New York: Macmillan, 1941. Sydney: Sirius, 1945. Awarded the Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal, and S.H. prior Prize. (Fiction, the depression)

4. Ride on Stranger. New York: Macmillan, 1941. London: Gollancz, 1941. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1941 (withdrawn from circulation). (Humourous fiction)

5. Time Enough Later. New York: Macmillan, 1943. London: Macmillan, 1945. (Fiction)

6. Lost Haven. NY: Macmillan, 1946. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1946. London: Macmillan, 1947. (Fiction)

7. Modern Plays for Schools 3. John o' the Forest, Lady Dorothy and the Pirates, The Willow Pattern Plate, The Laughing Girl, Christmas at the Old Shamrock Hotel. London/NY: Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 1950.

8. Tether a Dragon. Sydney: Associated General Publications, 1952. Awarded the Commonwealth Jubilee Stage Play Prize. (Drama, about Alfred Deakin)

9. The Joyful Condemned. London/NY: Macmillan/St Martin's Press 1953. (Fiction)

10. Australia: Her Story. London/NY: Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 1953. (History)

11. Long John Silver. Sydney: Associated General Publications, 1954. Adapted from the screenplay by Martin Rackin. (For children)

12. Modern Plays for Schools 15. The Bells of the City, The Magic Fat Baby, The Prince Who Met a Dragon, The Ghost Tiger, Hamaguchi Goh Ei. London/NY: Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 1955

13. The Honey Flow. London/NY: Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 1956. (Fiction)

14. The Development of the Australian Novel. Canberra: CLF, 1958.

15. Speak You So Gently. London: Gollancz, 1959 (Aborigines)

16. The Bushrangers' Christmas Eve and other plays (The Tribe of the Honey Tree, The Ladies of the Guard, A Nativity Play, The Play of the Younger Son, The Emperor and the Nightingale). London/NY: Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 1959

17. All the Proud Tribesmen. London/NY: Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 1959. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1960. Illustrated by Clem Seale. Children's Book Award 1960. Also published in Swedish, German, and Danish.

18. Come and See: social studies for Third Grade. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1960

19. We Find the Way: social studies for Fourth Grade. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1960

20. Trail Blazers of the Air. Melbourne/NY: Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 1965. Illustrated by Roderick Shaw. (Australia's pioneer aviators, for children.)

21. Tell Morning This. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1967. (Complete version of The Joyful Condemned)

22. Ma Jones and Little White Cannibals. London, 1967. (Short stories)

23. The Australian Essay (with L.C. Rodd). Melbourne: Cheshire, 1968.

24. Evatt: politics and justice. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1970. (Biography)

25. The Man on the Headland. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1971.

26. Tantavallon. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1983

27. The Missing Heir. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1986. (Autobiography)

 

Kylie Tennant also contributed stories to a number of literary magazines, journals, and anthologies.

"Security". In Southerly, Vol.1, No.1, 1939, pp15-24.

"The Miracle". In The Bulletin, 18 December 1940, pp6-7.

"Action Sale in Stanley Street". In Southerly, Vol.2, No.3, 1941, pp14-18.

"A Bargain". In Coast to Coast 1941, pp40-45.

"Jim". In The Bulletin, 2 December 1942, p4.

"The Face of Despair". In The Bulletin, 8 October 1952, p24.

"All the Trimmings". In The Bulletin, 1 July 1953, p20.

"Transfer of Mr Trace". In The Bulletin, 20 January 1954, p30.

"The Graves of Rich Men". In The Bulletin, 18 January 1956, p24.

"Such a Long Way Home". In Over the Horizon, 1960, pp19-32.

"Murder in a Taxi - a true story". In The Bulletin, 15 March 1961, p30.

"Ma Jones and the Bend Sinister". In Australian Letters, 5,4, 1963, pp18-25.

"The Antagonists". In Westerly, No 4, December 1963, pp6-14.

"No Family". In Australian Pavements, 1964, pp44-47.

"Lo, the Poor Yogi". In Southerly, Vol.33, No.3, 1973, pp276-282.

"The Cool Man". In The Cool Man, 1973, pp33-39