Forever to Remain

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Forever to Remain
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First edition
Author E. V. Timms
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Series Great South Land Saga
Genrehistorical
Publisher Angus & Robertson
Publication date
1948
Pages304
Followed by The Pathway of the Sun  

Forever to Remain is a 1948 novel by E. V. Timms, the first in his Great South Land Saga series of novels. He wrote it intending to be the first in a 12-part series of novels. It is set in West Australia, where Timms had spent some of his childhood. Timms had written a numner of historical novels but this was his first with an Australian setting. [1] [2]

Contents

The initial print run was 20,000 copies, which was considered "colossal" in Australian publishing at the time. [3]

It was published in Britain as The Violent Years.

Plot

In 1831, a ship London Lass sails from London to Swan River settlement in Western Australia.

Reception

The Sunday Times said "It is grand writing, the author's facile pen building array of persons full of human emotions, some of them coarse, others refined, but all so artistically portrayed that they take on the cloak of reality in the reader's mind." [4]

The Brisbane Telegraph called it "a lusty piee of Australian historical novel writing." [5] nouel writing

Radio adaptation

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ABC Weekly 10 May 1952

1949 serial

The novel was adapted for radio in 1949 as a serial where it was read out by an actor. [6]

1952 serial

The novel was adapted for radio again in 1952 as nine thirty-minute episodes for the ABC. This version was recorded in Adelaide. [7] [8] Timms himself did the adaptation. [9] Stafford Dyson directed. [10]

Cast of 1952 production

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References

  1. ↑ "NOVEL IS BASED ON EARLY PERTH". The Daily News (HOME ed.). Perth. 12 February 1948. p. 3. Retrieved 17 October 2014– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "FROM THE BOOKSHELF". Western Mail . Perth. 6 May 1948. p. 14. Retrieved 17 October 2014– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "Australian Pianist Was "Arrested As Vagrant"". The Sunday Times . Perth. 1 February 1948. p. 10 Section: Sporting Section. Retrieved 17 October 2014– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "BOOK REVIEWS". Sunday Times (Perth) . No. 2629. Western Australia. 11 July 1948. p. 3 (Sunday Times MAGAZINE). Retrieved 10 March 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "Lusty Australian Novel Writing". Brisbane Telegraph . Queensland, Australia. 17 April 1948. p. 4 (LAST RACE). Retrieved 10 March 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "HISTORICAL NOVEL WILL BE NEW MORNING SERIAL", ABC Weekly, 11 (1), Sydney, 1 January 1949, retrieved 2 October 2023– via Trove
  7. ↑ "NEW SERIAL". The Northern Standard . Darwin, NT. 16 May 1952. p. 6. Retrieved 17 October 2014– via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ "John Quinn's RADIO ROUND UP". The Mail . Adelaide. 24 May 1952. p. 24. Retrieved 17 October 2014– via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ "Author to have 2 serials running". The Sun. No. 13, 193. New South Wales, Australia. 13 May 1952. p. 20 (LATE FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 10 March 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  10. ↑ "Two E. V. Timms Novels for Radio", ABC weekly, 14 (20 (17 May 1952)), Sydney: ABC, nla.obj-1663808466, retrieved 10 March 2024– via Trove
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