this novel. Youth with all its charm and all its faults: warmth and abandon, egotism and garrulousness ... Miss Langley has an excellent sense of humour." From Melbourne's Argus: "The descriptive background is too vivid and the character sketching too firm and sure for any other source than real life." Notes References Adelaide, Debra (1988) Australian women writers: a bibliographic guide, London, Pandora Arkin, Marian (1981) "Literary Transvestism in Eve Langley's The Pea-Pickers", Modern Fiction Studies, 27(1): 108-116 Ellis, Cath (2001) "Review: The Pea-Pickers (1942) by Eve Langley" (online) in Network Review of Books, Perth, Australian Public Intellectual Network, October 2001. Accessed: 2008-01-23 Falkiner, Suzanne (1992) Wilderness (Series: Writers' Landscape), East Roseville, Simon and Schuster Langley, Eve (1958) The Pea-Pickers, Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 2nd ed. Maxwell, Joan, "The Pea Pickers" by Eve Langley: teaching Guide, HarperCollins Publishers McLeod, Aorewa (1999) "Alternative eyes", Hecate, October 1999, pp. 164–179 Makowiecka, Kate (2002) "'One long tumultuous inky shout': Reconsidering Eve Langley", Antipodes, 1 December 2002, pp. 181–182 Maxwell, Joan The Pea Pickers: Teaching Guide Accessed: 2007-10-04 Porter, Hal (1965) "Melbourne in the thirties", London Magazine, 5 (6): 31-47, September 1965 Spender, Dale (1988) Writing a New World: Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers, London: Pandora State Library of New South Wales, Eve Langley (1908–1974), Papers, c. 1920–1974 (ZML MSS 4188/1) Accessed: 2007-09-09 Thwaite, Joy (2000) "Langley, Eve (1904-1974)", Australian Dictionary of Biography On-line Accessed: 2007-09-09 White, Patrick (1981) Flaws in the Glass, London, Vintage Wilde, William H., Hooton, Joy and Andrews, Barry (1994) The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature 2nd ed., Melbourne, Oxford University Press Further reading 1942 Australian novels Australian autobiographical novels Picaresque novels Novels set in Victoria (Australia) Fiction set in the 1920s 1942 debut novels Angus & Robertson books