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- About Mavis Thorpe Clark
- Inspiration
- Recurrent Themes - setting, characters, identity, conservation
- Harold Darwin, Library Man - who introduced Mavis Thorpe Clark to "the red earth"
- South Australian Outback - 1960, 1963 and 1966
- Pastoral properties of the South Australian outback
- Map showing pastoral properties of the South Australian outback
- Inspiration for The Min-Min
- Railway siding - small community in the desert
- Outback school - one of the toughest in South Australia
- Sylvie - main character
- Min-min lights - mysterious and evocative natural phenomenon
- Knobby - Aboriginal character
- Tucker family - living in an isolated out-station
- Kingoonya - "capital of the north-west" with just 14 houses
- Inspiration for Spark of Opal
- Coober Pedy - an opal-gouging town in the South Australian desert
- Inspiration for Blue Above the Trees
- Gippsland - cleared of native forests during the 1850s
- Inspiration for Pony from Tarella
- Bungle Boori - a farm in Victoria's Western district
- Inspiration for Iron Mountain
- Western Australia - a bogged vehicle and the ladies who stopped the iron-ore train
- Inspiration for Pastor Doug: The Story of an Aboriginal Leader
- Books
- Books authored by Mavis Thorpe Clark
- Publishing information for each book authored by Mavis Thorpe Clark
- Teenage Fiction
- Hatherly's First Fifteen - published in 1930
- Dark Pool Island - published in 1949
- The Twins from Timber Creek - published in 1949
- Home Again at Timber Creek - published in 1950
- Jingaroo - published in 1950
- Missing Gold - published in 1951
- The Brown Land was Green / Kamoora - first published in 1956
- Gully of Gold - first published in 1958
- Pony from Tarella - first published in 1959
- They Came South - first published in 1963
- The Min-Min - first published in 1966
- Blue Above the Trees - first published in 1967
- Spark of Opal - first published in 1968
- Nowhere to Hide - published in 1969
- Iron Mountain - first published in 1970
- New Golden Mountain - first published in 1973
- Wildfire - first published in 1973
- The Sky is Free - first published in 1974
- The Hundred Islands - first published in 1976
- A Stranger Came to the Mine - first published in 1980
- Solomon's Child - first published in 1981
- Young and Brave: Stories of Nine Steadfast Young Australians - published in 1984
- Biography
- Pastor Doug: The Story of an Aboriginal Leader - first published 1965
- Joan and Betty Rayner: Strolling Players - published 1972
- The Boy from Cumeroogunga: The Story of Sir Douglas Ralph Nicholls, Aboriginal Leader - first published 1979
- No Mean Destiny: The Story
of the War Widow's Guild of Australia 1945-85 - published 1986
- 3LO's Derryn Hinch interviews MTC - Jessie Vasey's role in establishing the War Widows' Guild (5 minute audio file)
- 3LO's Derryn Hinch interviews MTC - Post-WWII support by the War Widows' Guild (4 minute audio file)
- Trust the Dream: The Autobiography of Mavis Thorpe Clark, Author of 'The Min-Min' - published 1999
- Other Non-Fiction
- Reference booklets written for the Life in Australia and Great Australians series between 1962 and 1971
- Readers for Primary School Students
- The Lilly-Pilly, 1979
- Short stories written for reading series including Eureka Treasure Chest, Mount Gravatt, Bookshelf and Young Australia during the 1980s
- Articles, Short Stories and Scripts
- Sugar from the Ground - The Saturday Evening Herald, 27 May 1933
- Women and War - Mufti, 1 July 1935
- Masterpiece in Marble - The Age, 21 October 1939
- A Commonsense Laundry - Australian Home Beautiful, June 1946
- Phillip Island Penguins - The Age, 11 February 1950
- The Bullock Team - Walkabout, 1 July 1954
- Books in the Outback - People, 15 March 1961
- Why Write? - Australian Book Review, August 1983
- Fair Exchange - The Kookaburra, 11 March 1932
- The Cycle - The Age, 18 February 1933
- The Lost Ration Book - The Age, 16 December 1944
- The Pink Dress - The Sun, 1 May 1948
- The Weight of the Earth - Post, 3 February 1949
- Island in the River - The Sunday Herald, Sydney - "Playtime", 20 February 1949
- Why Dilly Dallied - Argus Week-end Magazine, 4 February 1950
- New Cousins - February 1950
- The Hunter - The Holy Name Monthly, 1 July 1959
- Christmas with a Difference - 1960
- Arachne - 1934
- New Cousins - 1950
- Untitled Poem - 1925
- Books for Sale from the Family
- Links
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