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

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

The three editors of The Atlas, a Sydney Journal 1844-1849.
July 1, 2008... The Atlas was a weekly newspaper or periodical. It was established in November 1844 and was entitled The Atlas, Sydney Weekly, Journal of Politics, Commerce and Literature. It continued publication until early 1849. Richard Thompson was noted...

John Lammonie: an early Australian composer.
July 1, 2008... Readers of recent issues of Margin will know that I have been 'carrying on' about the lack of information about early Australian music especially details about Australian composers. Imagine my surprise when listening to National Radio ABC...

The Anthology of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction.
July 1, 2008... THE ANTHOLOGY OF COLONIAL AUSTRALIAN CRIME FICTION edited by Ken Gelder and Rachel Weaver. MUP 2008 Here is another collection of early Australian stories published by Melbourne University Press. It includes one of John Lang's stories,...

John Lang Page.
July 1, 2008... During May this year I went to London to do some research on various aspects of the writings of John Lang for the New Mofussilite and the John Lang Project. I spent a considerable time in the British Library working on the papers of the...

The pick-handle election: when the miners took over Araluen.
July 1, 2008... On Polling Day December 14 1869, in the mining boom town of Araluen there were ominous signs that there was going to be trouble. It marked the beginning of two days of rioting when the mob took over the town and the democratic process was...

Tales of the Bushman.(NEW BOOK)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... This is a group of stories set in outback New South Wales in the 1840s. John Sydney came the Australia in the early 1840s and went out back to try his luck as a grazier. He had various adventures with bushrangers and Aboriginals and when he...

Donald Cameron: another neglected Australian born novelist.
July 1, 2008... I first came across the name Donald Cameron in Toni Johnson Woods' Index to Serials for Australian Periodicals and Newspapers. Nineteenth Century. This is a treasure house of early Australian novels published as serials. There are well over a...

Dickens's versions of Australia's story (i).(Charles Dickens)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Australia appears only occasionally in Dickens's fiction. This is somewhat astonishing, because there is plenty of evidence that Australia had a fascination for him. In the journals that he edited, "Household Words"...

The Shortland Family of the Royal Navy and Australasia with reference to the First Fleet'.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Shortland Family of the Royal Navy and Australasia with reference to the First Fleet' by John Willoughby Shortland. Available: John Willoughby Shortland 23 Meldrum Ave., Miranda NSW 2228 This is a family history of the Shortland Family...