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

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

Editorial.(Editorial)
July 1, 2005... Readers of Margin may recall that the first three chapters of my biography of John Lang Australia's Larrikin Writer were published in Margin in 2002. The completed work has an additional Chapter called a prologue which was necessary because I...

'Australie' Emily Manning: an Australian born journalist, poet and novelist.
July 1, 2005... The journalistic veil has concealed so much of her press work' Centennial Magazine September 1890 Emily Manning was in her lifetime accorded much praise as a poet. It was not until after her death that her great contribution as one of...

A history of the Turkish Bath at Mt Wilson in the Blue Mountains NSW.(New South Wales)
July 1, 2005... In the small village of Mt Wilson, a rather isolated community in the northern part of the Blue Mountains, with some 70 or 80 permanent residents, the Turkish Bath is tucked into a hill overlooking the rugged World Heritage listed Blue...

A triumph of resurrected voices.(Australian women's voice)
July 1, 2005... When wanting to know about the women who have lived in my 1850s homestead near Kyneton, Victoria, the food bowl of Melbourne at that time, I found myself wanting to read about other women they would have known. For a time it seemed that Kyneton...

Mazarine John Lang's 1845 novel.
July 1, 2005... Mazarine, a short novel, was published as a serial in John Lang's Indian newspaper The Mofussilite commencing in August 1845. It was one of his early works and there appears to be no record of the appearance of this work as a book or as a...