Account Rendered at Ringarra

Account Rendered at Ringarra is a 1962 Australian radio play by Coral Lansbury. It was one of her final radio plays.[1] It was repeated later that year.[2]

Lansbury adapted it into a 1985 novel Ringarra. It was her third novel to be written but the first to be published.[3] It was called a "pastiche of Jane Eyre".[4] Lansbury called it a straight gothic novel which commented on the form.[5]

"You may laugh or shudder at will" wrote the Sun Herald.[6]

Premise

An accountant heads to an outback station to do the books and finds himself plunged into a dangerous situation.

References

  1. ^ "Nine radio plays in ABC festival". The Age. 3 May 1962. p. 25.
  2. ^ "Radio plays". The Age. 22 November 1962. p. 28.
  3. ^ "The dean who writes novels". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 29 April 1986. p. 19.
  4. ^ "First Person". The Guardian. 12 November 1986. p. 10.
  5. ^ "Features". The Canberra Times. Vol. 60, no. 18, 368. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 15 January 1986. p. 14. Retrieved 14 May 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Prose with strict economy". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 November 1985. p. 114.
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