• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE3679

Dark, Eleanor

  • Maiden name O'Reilly, Eleanor
    Pseudonym O'Reilly, Pixie
    Pseudonym O'Rane, Patricia
(1901 – 1985)
  • Born 26 August 1901, Burwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • Died 1 September 1985
  • Occupation Novelist

Summary

Eleanor Dark wrote for the Australian Women’s Mirror and the Bulletin under the pseudonym of ‘P.O’R’: Pixie O’Reilly or Patricia O’Rane. Under her married name, she published Slow Dawning (1932), Prelude to Christopher (1934), Return to Coolami (1936), Sun Across the Sky (1937), Waterway (1938), The Timeless Land (1941), The Little Company (1945), Storm of Time (1948) and No Barrier (1953).

Archival resources

  • National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
    • Papers of Eleanor Dark, 1910-1974 [manuscript]
    • Papers of Hazel de Berg, 1959-1963 [manuscript]
  • Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection
    • [Collection of pamphlets containing souvenir concert programmes and Australian biographies.]
  • State Library of New South Wales
    • Eleanor Dark - papers, 1849-1980

Published resources

  • Resource
  • Edited Book
    • 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988
  • Journal Article
    • Eleanor Dark: Retrospective, Modjeska, Drusilla, 1986
  • Book
    • No Barrier, Dark, Eleanor, 1953
    • Lantana Lane, Dark, Eleanor, 1959
    • The Little Company, Dark, Eleanor, 1945
    • Prelude to Christopher, Dark, Eleanor, 1936
    • Return to Coolami, Dark, Eleanor, 1935
    • Slow Dawning, Dark, Eleanor, 1932
    • Storm of Time, Dark, Eleanor, 1948
    • Sun Across the Sky, Dark, Eleanor, 1937
    • The Timeless Land, Dark, Eleanor, 1946
    • Waterway, Dark, Eleanor, 1938
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