The Scarlet Frontier

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| 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 = 1953

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| preceded_by = The Challenge

| followed_by = The Fury

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The Scarlet Frontier is a 1953 Australian novel by E. V. Timms. It was the sixth in his Great South Land Saga of novels.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article212227858 |title=BOOK REVIEW |newspaper=The Evening Advocate |location=Queensland, Australia |date=24 November 1953 |accessdate=12 March 2024 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}

It was set in Southern Queensland and concerns three sisters.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article147162679 |title=BOOKS. |newspaper=The Catholic Weekly |location=Sydney |date=11 March 1954 |accessdate=19 October 2014 |page=15 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

Reception

The Argus said "The romance (some of It seamy), mystery, drama, suspense, is there. There are three sisters behaving in a most unsisteriy way and having a good-and honest tooth-and-nail fight over a couple of rugged early Australians. It is entertaining reading."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23306390 |title=NOVELS |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=33,465 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=5 December 1953 |accessdate=12 March 2024 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}}

The Newcastle Herald said "The measure of one's liking for this book must'be how

much one can come to care for the Leighton sisters and their associates. This reviewer, for instance, nourished a forlorn hope against all acluarial probability that success might crown the efforts of the aborigines who attempt to liquidate the homestead and all its occupants in the closing stage of the book."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140289876 |title=Pilgrimage Half Completed |newspaper=Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate |issue=24,082 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=12 December 1953 |accessdate=12 March 2024 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}

The Canberra Times said "The story is a promising one, and its.telling"shows a pleasant prose coupled with a firm grasp of Australian society in the period covered."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2903106 |title=A Romance In Old Queensland |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=28 |issue=8,203 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=12 December 1953 |accessdate=12 March 2024 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206909260 |title=A ROMANCE IN OLD QUEENSLAND |newspaper=The Age |issue=30,770 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=12 December 1953 |accessdate=12 March 2024 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}}