M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia articles from April 2007

M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia archives from April 2007

Editorial.(Editorial)
April 1, 2007... I want to mention a few Honours relating to Australian Literature. First is the award of the Order of Australia to Professor Elizabeth Webby. She has been the Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney for many years and has...

The five ghost of John Lang.
April 1, 2007... I should have called this article The Five Texts of Fisher's Ghost and allowed the identity of the author, John Lang, to emerge from the discussion of the five ghosts. I want to examine and discuss the five texts of the story of Fisher's Ghost...

Pioneer woman journalist's career spanned two countries: Stella Allan in Wellington and Melbourne.
April 1, 2007... Author's Note: I first researched New Zealand-born journalist, Stella Allan, for my book, Pen Portraits: Women Writers and Journalists in Nineteenth Century Australia, published by Allen & Unwin in 1988. Nearly twenty years later, when I had...

What's in a label?
April 1, 2007... Collecting book labels is clearly an eccentric occupation. A cursory glance at the inside the cover of an old book, then on to the next until a label is spotted. Other customers may wonder about the object of the search. Enthusiasm, however,...

Australian plays for the Colonial stage.
April 1, 2007... UQP 2006 Australian Academy Editions The Theatre was one of the most popular forms of entertainment in Australia during the nineteenth century. The plays presented were for the most part plays that had been previously performed on the British...

Some recent books on Colonial landscapes.
April 1, 2007... Gardenesque. A Celebration of Australian Gardening by Richard Aitken Published by The Miegunyah Press and The State Library of Victoria in 2004 Richard Aitken is well known as the joint editor of The Oxford Companion to Australian...

The Association for the Study of Australian Literature: Conference in Honour of Professor Elizabeth Webby.(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... In early February a Conference was held at the University of Sydney to Honour the retiring Professor of Australian Literature, Elizabeth Webby. It was attended by a very large number of her past students, colleagues and friends of Australian...

What's in a label?
April 1, 2007... Collecting book labels is clearly an eccentric occupation. A cursory glance inside the cover of an old book, then on to the next, until a label is spotted. Other customers may wonder about the object of the search. Enthusiasm, however, makes...