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3Andrew Riemer,"Elizabeth Jolley:New Worlds and Old",in Rossi Robert L.ed.,International Literature in English:Essays on the Major Writers,New York:Garland,1991,p.376,p.382.
4Laurie Clancy,"Love,Longing and Lonelinessthe Fiction of Elizabeth Jolley",in Australian Book Review,No.56 (November 1983),p.10.
5Helen Daniel,"Riddles of mortality",in The Age,Saturday Extra,(Feb 3,1983),p.10,p.10.
6C.K.Stead,"No One Ever Manages to Break out of This Old Folks' Home",in The Sydney Morning Herald,(January29,1983),p.33.
7Paul Salzman,Helplessly Tangled in Women's Arms and Legs:Elizabeth Jolley's Fictions,Queensland:University of Queensland Press,1993,p.48.
8Constance Rooke,"Mr Scobie's Riddle and the Contemporary Vollendungsroman," in Delys Bird,Brenda Walker eds.,New Critical Essays,North Ryde,New South Wales:Collins/Angus &.Roberson and Centre for Studies in Australian Literature,The University of Western Australian,1991,pp.180-190.
9Harry Wilmer,Quest for Silence,Switzerland:Daimon,2000,p.36.
10Adam Jaworski,ed.,Silence:Interdisplinary Perspectives,Berlin:Mouton de Gruyter,1997