M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia articles from November 2003

M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia archives from November 2003

Editorial.(Editorial)
November 1, 2003... It is flattering to have so many readers telling me how much they enjoyed my last piece 'On the Track of Watkin Tench'. Seldom do readers let me know what they have enjoyed in Margin. You do not even tell me what you did not like, which is...

The Bent Street Public Library, Sydney.
November 1, 2003... It is universally and enthusiastically agreed that the Bent Street Public Library was a disgrace to Sydney. It was dark, mean and cramped, with the readers all jammed together around the tables. Yet this was all that could be said against it....

The fiction reading habits of the Tichborne claimant.(Tom Castro)(Biography)
November 1, 2003... In the Margin issue of April 2003, Associate Professor Dirk Spennemann documents the serial publication of many of Mary Braddon's novels in the Albury Banner from the 1870s onwards. Her two most popular novels Lady Audley's Secret (1862) and...

A Sydney girl's school in the 1830s.(Annabella Boswell's Journal An Account of Early Port Macquarie)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Schools for girls were very occasionally mentioned in records of the early days of the settlement in Sydney. There were in the colony of New South Wales a number of 'private' schools for boys. There was the Cape's School in King Street and then...

Tracking A.B. Triggs and his collections.(Arthur Bryant Triggs)(Biography)
November 1, 2003... Arthur Bryant Triggs was born in 1868 at Chelsea, London, England. His family included his younger brother H. Inigo Triggs (1876-1923) the well known English landscape garden designer, architect and author; and the architect Inigo Triggs was...

Dancing with Strangers.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... This important book by Inga Clendinnen has a subject that is hidden by the title Dancing with Strangers. The book is actually about the Aboriginal contact with the early explorers and settlers especially those who came on the First Fleet. The...

A Sailor's Story.(The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Robert Holden is an author who cannot resist a good yarn and his latest book The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, certainly falls into that category. It is an extremely entertaining book which weaves fact and fiction. However, from an historical...

John Lang and Sadi of Shiraz.(General Notes)
November 1, 2003... A few years ago the Mulini Published a small group of poems translated from the Persian written in the 13th century by Sadi of Shiraz. They were called the Rose Garden and were translated by John Lang who was a superb linguist fluent in Hindi...

Book notes.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Photographs of Boom Town Melbourne in the 1880s This is a new book just published and I have not yet received a copy for review but it sounds quite spectacular. A professional photographer, Charles B. Walker has recorded the splendour of...