Novels by Kay Glasson Taylor include Ginger for Pluck (published under the pseudonym "Daniel Hamline", for young readers, 1929); Pick and the Duffers (1930), called "an Australian Tom Sawyer" by more than one reviewer;[2][3] Wards of the Outer March (1932), set in "convict days in New South Wales", with a disabled Cornish central character;[4] and Bim (for young readers; serialized in 1946, published as a book in 1947).[5] Her fiction is still read as a representation of white Australian women's experiences of gender and race in the context of colonialism.[6][7]
Pick and the Duffers was adapted for an Australian film soon after publication.[8] It was awarded the second prize of £250 in The Bulletin's novel competition in 1930, beaten by Vance Palmer's The Passage.[9]
