M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia articles from April 2005

M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia archives from April 2005

Editorial.
April 1, 2005... This issue of Margin marks ten years since I took over the editorship of Margin from Dennis Davison. I have enjoyed my immersion into nineteenth century Australia and looking back I am surprised at the range of subjects covered. This range has...

Major George Bruce.(Australian novelist)
April 1, 2005... A pall hung over our Christmas and New Year holiday season this year with news of the appalling loss of life caused by the tsunami. Places of which we had barely heard featured prominently in the news, among them the province of Aceh on the...

Turning fact into fiction: the 1857 Hornet Bank massacre.
April 1, 2005... In November 2004 I was driving back to Canberra with Victor Crittenden after both of us had given papers at a commemoration of the noted naturalist and pioneer novelist, Louisa Atkinson (1834-1872), at the Mt Tomah Botanic Gardens in the Blue...

The evolution of Australian cricket literature: with emphasis on the period up until 1900.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2005... Sir Robert Menzies, the former Australian Prime Minister and avid cricket enthusiast once said 'cricket is a summer game for the player and the observer, but a winter game for the reader and thinker who sits by his fireside and evokes...

George Caley's Blue Mountains expedition revisited 200 years on.
April 1, 2005... George Caley may not be a household name but in November 2004, Mount Tomah Botanic Garden (MTBG) and National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) planned for that to change. The two organisations, in collaboration with several modern day...

The reception of Robbery under Arms in Albury in 1888/89.
April 1, 2005... The 1889 publication of Robbery under Arms by Macmillan & Co. catapulted Thomas Alexander Browne, under his nom de plume 'Rolf Boldrewood,' from a minor author of novels serialised in newspapers, to an established author of colonial, and to a...

A Black Sheep.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... A BLACK SHEEP--Some Episodes From His Life by Ada Cambridge Elizabeth Morrison Australian Scholarly Editions Centre The difficulty of accessing literary works from 19th Century Australia has meant that the tapestry of artistic output...

Victor J. Daley--An Australian Nineteenth Century Poet.
April 1, 2005... When I published for the Mulini Press Frank Molloy's Bibliography of the poetry of Victor J. Daley, Frank informed me that he must be identified as Victor J. Daley. The J. was important to him. I wondered at this at the time because people...