The Pathway of the Sun
{{short description|1949 novel by E.V. Timms}}
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| name = The Pathway of the Sun
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| image = File:ThePathwayOfTheSun.jpg
| caption = First edition
| author = E. V. Timms
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| country = Australia
| language = English
| series = Great South Land Saga
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| publisher = Angus and Robertson
| release_date = 1949
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| preceded_by =Forever to Remain
| followed_by =The Beckoning Shore
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The Pathway to the Sun is a 1949 novel by Australian author E. V. Timms.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59863123 |title=TH PATHWAY OF THE SUN. |newspaper=Centralian Advocate (Alice Springs, NT : 1947–1954) |location=Alice Springs, NT |date=2 December 1949 |accessdate=16 October 2014 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} It was the second in his Great South Land Saga of historical novels.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22807432 |title=New interpreters of Australasian scene. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=28 January 1950 |accessdate=16 October 2014 |page=12 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
The working title of the book was Wilderness. Timms evisioned from the beginning that the books would be part of a twelve volume saga. "I don't want this to be just a series of cheap little love stories in costume," he said. "I want it to tell, the historical and social progress of this country, the transition from the British way of life to the Australian way of life, the great efforts we have made."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228998913 |title=SYDNEY DIARY |newspaper=The Sun |issue=11,916 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=6 April 1948 |accessdate=11 March 2024 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Premise
A woman escapes from Hobart Town to Fremantle.
Radio adaptations
=1950 version=
The 1950 version the novel was adapted by Colin Roderick and read out by Kevin Brennan in fifteen minute episodes.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article142866469 |title=NEW MORNING SERIAL— 'PATHWAY OF THE SUN' |newspaper=South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus |volume=L |issue=44 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=5 June 1950 |accessdate=11 March 2024 |page=3 (South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus feature section) |via=National Library of Australia}}{{Citation
| title=FRIDAY, June 9
| journal=ABC Weekly
| volume=12| issue=22 (3 June 1950)
| location=Sydney
| publisher=ABC
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1692574959
| id=nla.obj-1692574959
| access-date=11 March 2024
| via=Trove
}}
=1952 version=
The 1952 version was adapted by Kathleen Carroll and was broadcast in 60 minute episodes. Unlike the 1952 radio adaptation of Forever to Remain which had been done by the ABC, this version of Pathway to the Sun was done by a commercial organisation, Grace Gibson Productions.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230209894 |title=Author to have 2 serials running |newspaper=The Sun |issue=13,193 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=13 May 1952 |accessdate=10 March 2024 |page=20 (LATE FINAL EXTRA) |via=National Library of Australia}}{{Citation
| title=Two E. V. Timms Novels for Radio
| journal=ABC Weekly
| volume=14| issue=20 (17 May 1952)
| location=Sydney
| publisher=ABC
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1663808466
| id=nla.obj-1663808466
| access-date=10 March 2024
| via=Trove
The Brisbane Truth thought the first episode "was not very encouraging" in part because actor Sheila Ewell "sounds too hysterical to live. Maybe in future episodes serial will improve but having knowledge of the book, this writer would say it will have to calm down a lot to produce the true interpretation of the characters as intended by Timms."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201349592 |title=HEAR HERE! |newspaper=Truth |issue=2723 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=1 June 1952 |accessdate=11 March 2024 |page=37 |via=National Library of Australia}}
The serial was well received and Grace Gibson Productions would adapt Timms' next novel, The Beckoning Shore.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230728102 |title=Australian novel to be dramatised as serial |newspaper=The Sun |issue=13,528 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=19 June 1953 |accessdate=11 March 2024 |page=12 (LATE FINAL EXTRA) |via=National Library of Australia}}
The serial was repeated again in 1954.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23451199 |title=PICK OF THE DAY |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |location=Victoria, Australia |date=16 September 1954 |accessdate=11 March 2024 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}
=Cast of 1952 production=
- Leonard Thiele as Simon Challinor
- Lynne Murphy as Penelope Challinor
- Sheila Sewell as Ginny Lockey
References
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External links
- [http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C129517?mainTabTemplate=workDefault The Pathway of the Sun] at AustLit
{{E. V. Timms}}
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Category:1949 Australian novels
Category:Novels by E. V. Timms
Category:Angus & Robertson books
Category:1950 Australian radio dramas