Fairyland (Elliott novel)

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Fairyland Author| Sumner Locke Elliott

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Language| English
Set in| Australia
Publication place| USA

Fairyland is a 1990 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott. It was his final novel published in his lifetime and was a semi-autobiographical account of his homosexuality. The novel has come to be regarded as one of Elliott's best known.[1][2][3]

## Premise

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An aspiring writer comes to terms with his homosexuality in 1940s Sydney.

## References

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1. ^ Fairyland at AustLit
2. ^ Jill Roe, 'Elliott, Sumner Locke (1917–1991)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/elliott-sumner-locke-14903/text26094, published online 2014, accessed online 21 September 2024.
3. ^ "BOOKS". The Canberra Times. Vol. 68, no. 21, 368. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 16 October 1993. p. 10 (Saturday MAGAZINE). Retrieved 21 September 2024 - via National Library of Australia.

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Works of Sumner Locke Elliott

Novels|

* Careful, He Might Hear You (1963)
* Some Doves and Pythons (1966)
* Edens Lost (1969)
* The Man Who Got Away (1972)
* Going (1975)
* Water Under the Bridge (1977)
* Signs of Life (1981)
* About Tilly Beamis (1984)
* Waiting for Childhood (1987)
* Fairyland (1990)
* Radio Days (1993)

Plays|

* The Cow Jumped Over the Moon (1937)
* The Folly of It (1938)
* Interval (1939)
* The Little Sheep Run Fast (1940)
* Goodbye to the Music (1942)
* Your Obedient Servant (1943)
* The Invisible Circus (1946)
* Wicked Is the Vine (1948)
* Rusty Bugles (1948)
* Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1951)
* John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953)

TV scripts|

* Wicked Is the Vine (1949)
* The Crater (1949)
* Pengallen's Bell (1949)
* Of Human Bondage (1949)
* Jane Eyre (1949)
* The Willow Cabin (1950)
* The Passionate Pilgrim (1950)
* The Shadow of a Man (1950)
* Little Women (1950)
* The Rose Garden (1951)
* The Devil in Velvet (1952)
* The Thin Air (1952)
* Dusty Portrait (1952)
* Miss Hargreaves (1952)
* We Were Children (1952)
* Elegy (1953)
* Wish on the Moon (1953)
* Before I Wake (1953)
* The Shadow of a Man (1953)
* The Girl with the Stop Watch (1953)
* Moment of Panic (1954)
* Friday the 13th (1954)
* Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1954)
* The King and Mrs. Candle (1954)
* Time Bomb (1954)
* Run Girl Run (1954)
* The Women (1955)
* Beloved Stranger (1955)
* The King and Mrs. Candle (1955)
* Peter Pan (1955)
* Daisy, Daisy (1955)
* You and Me and the Gatepost (1956)
* Keyhole (1956)
* Company Manners (1956)
* Peter Pan (1956)
* Love at Fourth Sight (1957)
* Whereabouts Unknown (1957)
* Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper (1957)
* Babe in the Woods (1957)
* The Count of Monte Cristo (1958)
* The Winslow Boy (1958)
* We Haven't Seen Her Lately (1958)
* The Laughing Willow (1958)
* The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1959) (US)
* Peter Pan (1960)
* The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1960) (Aust)
* The Prisoner of Zenda (1961)
* Notorious (1961)
* Spellbound (1962)

Adaptations|

* Rusty Bugles (1965)
* Water Under the Bridge (1980)
* Rusty Bugles (1981)
* Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)
* Edens Lost (1989 TV mini series)

Radio|

* Crazy Family (1939)
* Tradesman's Entrance (1941)
* Jezebel's Daughter (1941)
* Grand City (1942)
* Girl of the Ballet (1942)
* The Man in the Dark (1944)
* The Army Hour (1944)
* Lily Parker (1947)
* Scarlet Rhapsody (1947)
* Wicked Is the Vine (1947)
* Ride a Cock Horse (1948)
* The Crater (1948)
* The Rose Garden (1950)
* Dusty Portrait (1953)
* The Thin Air (1954)
* We Were Children (1954)
* Friday the 13th (1955)

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