Joseph Furphy
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Joseph Furphy was an Australian author and poet. He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins and is best known for his novel Such Is Life, regarded as an Australian classic.
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Kate Baker
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Catherine Baker was an Irish-born Australian teacher best known for championing the work of her friend Joseph Furphy, whose novel Such Is Life had received an indifferent reception upon its initial pu
Joseph Furphy
…lacked "creative originality". A full biography of Furphy was written through a collaboration of Australian author Miles Franklin and Furphy's friend Kate Baker, titled Joseph Furphy: The Legend of a Man and His Book, in 1944. To honour Furphy, in 1992 his and his brother's descendants established the Furphy…
Joseph Furphy wrote under the pen-name "Tom Collins"
Miles Franklin had a tense collaboration with Kate Baker over a biography of Joseph Furphy