M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia articles from April 1 2004

M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia archives from April 1 2004

Confessions of a cannibal.
April 1, 2004... On 20 September 1822 Alexander Pearce and seven comrades escaped from the penal settlement of Sarah Island in Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania's remote south west. Over 100 days later, Alexander Pearce was recaptured in the bush land around...

Two Louisa Atkinson events.
April 1, 2004... There have been two events celebrating Louisa Atkinson as Novelist Writer of Journal Articles, as an Artist and perhaps most importantly as a Botanist. The MOUNT TOMAH EVENT The first event was held at the Mount Tomah Botanic Gardens...

Scandal in the Colonies.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... A number of Australian writers have taken up the 'scandals' of Sydney Town in the past but here we are given some of them in contrast with some even more scandalous tales of the sister colony of Cape Town. Cape Town was an integral part of...

Thomas McCombie 1819-1869 An Early Melbourne Writer.
April 1, 2004... Thomas McCombie was a Scotsman who came to Australia in the very early days of the Colonies and made a substantial contribution to Australian Literature. He was born in Tillyfour in Aberdeenshire in Scotland in 1819 and so he was only 22 years...

John Oxley's Sydney town house.
April 1, 2004... John Oxley, third Surveyor General of New South Wales, occupied the house at the corner of King and Macquarie Streets Sydney from about 1820 till his death in 1828. It was on the 12 June 1811 that Thomas Clarkson, a ticket of leave man,...

The missing 1846 copies of The Mofussilite was it censored?
April 1, 2004... John Lang started The Mofussilite newspaper in Calcutta (India) in 1845. The issues for this year survive with the copies of The Mofussilite held in the India Office Library (now in the British Library in London). The copies for 1847 follow in...

The quest for Australia's oldest surviving printed document.
April 1, 2004... Some of the oldest surviving printed documents in the world are types of printed ephemera. These treasured examples emphasise the potential of printed ephemera as artefact, not just documents that complement recorded history, but documents with...

Editorial.(Editorial)
April 1, 2004... I would like to thank all those readers who kindly sent comments to me about the contents of Margin. I do appreciate receiving such comments especially as most of them were expressing their enjoyment of the various articles. One or two were...