M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia articles from April 2006

M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia archives from April 2006

Editorial.(Editorial)
April 1, 2006... I have long wondered if there were any examples of paintings indicating the influence in Australia of the famous English group known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The artist Burne Jones was a leading light in this group in Britain and I...

An Australian pre-Raphaelite tale.
April 1, 2006... The Pre-Raphaelite movement or as it was called The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was essentially an affair for artists. A group of painters in England had become disillusioned with the rather stilted classical style of painting which had evolved...

Lucinda Gullett: the mother of Australian women journalists.
April 1, 2006... In 1872 at Williamstown, Victoria Lucinda (Lucy) Willie had married her cousin, Henry Gullett, recently appointed editor of the Australasian. She probably began writing for the paper soon after the her marriage and she later adopted the name...

The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore: 1887-1929, vol. 1.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore: Volume I 1887-1929, edited by Jennifer Strauss. The Academy Editions of Australian Literature. UQP 2004. 741 pp. Under the General Editorship of Paul Eggert of the Scholarly Editions Centre at the...

First Fleet paintings return to Australia.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Many readers may have seen the published collection of works of art in the newspapers which the National Library acquired from England at the end of 1005. These were a collection of paintings by the First Fleet artist George Raper who was on...

Aged convict on the first fleet.(NOTES)
April 1, 2006... In my book The Voyage of the First Fleet which describes the voyage, taken from the journals of the members of the ships of the Fleet. I comment on an old lady convict and wondered why the authorities had included such an old person to send out...

Andrew Barton ("Banjo") Paterson, bush poet, lawyer and journalist.
April 1, 2006... There is no shortage of Internet biographical coverage of "Banjo", eldest child of Scottish immigrants who arrived in Sydney during the early 1850s and with Banjo's uncle took up the squatting run of "Illalong" to breed Indian Army remounts...

A new biography of Governor Bourke.
April 1, 2006... Called Forgotten Hero by Max Waugh this is a new look at the important Richard Bourke who was the Governor of New South Wales from 1831 until 1837. I am particularly interested in Bourke because his term as Governor covers the period of John...