M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia articles from April 2008

M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia archives from April 2008

Editorial.(Editorial)
April 1, 2008... This month I have written a short article about editing Margin because this is the fortieth issue of the magazine that I have edited over the last twelve years--not that I am giving up not until I reach fifty issues at least. I thought that...

Editing forty issues of Margin.(Editorial)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I almost called this short article Marginal Editing because the magazine 'Margin' could be described as marginalia: it deals with nineteenth century life and literature and our early literature has been pushed to the...

Literary links to a nineteenth-century murder.
April 1, 2008... This article explores an intriguing problem in research for my biography of Australian-born pioneer writer and naturalist, Louisa Atkinson--the tracing of her ostensibly missing step-father, George Bruce Barton. It is based on a paper I gave at...

The home furnishing the house in early Australia.
April 1, 2008... In wandering through some of the houses owned by the National Trust of Australia with their pretty restored interiors I often wonder if that was actually how the rooms really looked or was it just a dream concept? Is it how we like to think the...

Jane Barker's letters from Canberra.
April 1, 2008... In October 1855, Jane Barker wrote from the Church of England parsonage on the Limestone Plains to her sister in England. She was a good horsewoman, and she described the 30 mile ride that she enjoyed that day. 'It was a pretty sight, the nine...

Adventures on the First Fleet of an American Sailor.
April 1, 2008... There is quite a collection of original Journals and accounts of the Voyage of the First Fleet which came to New South Wales in 1788 to establish the first colony in Australia. Most of these have been published and they were usually written by...

Under the Spell of Ages. Australian Country Gardens.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Under the Spell of Ages. Australian Country Gardens by Trisha Dixon Canberra, National Library of Australia, 2007. This is a superb book a must have for those who love old gardens and those who love early Australian literature. Trisha...

A Note on Watkin Tench.
April 1, 2008... Readers may remember the first chapter of my biography of Watkin Tench about my work in tracing his family in Chester, England. There I took him back to his grandfather in Nantwich and his mother a Tarleton from Liverpool. I have since located...