M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia articles from November 2006

M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia archives from November 2006

Watkin Tench, La Perouse and Lost Horizon.(Critical essay)
November 1, 2006... What an odd title you may observe but it came about because I recently read or reread four books and they set me off thinking about the subject of Utopias. The first was Watkin Tench's Letters from Revolutionary France. Tench was held a...

Fisher's Ghost: a legend of Campbelltown.
November 1, 2006... The incidents related in the following tale must be familiar to many of our readers, especially those in Campbelltown and its neighbourhood. We have trusted solely to memory in drawing up the statements, the inaccuracies (if there are any) can...

Miles Franklin and her 'Brindabella' childhood.
November 1, 2006... I will start with one or two bare facts. "Miles" is one of several pen-names adopted by a female writer who was born in 1879 at Talbingo station and given the names of Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin. I use the name "Stella" which the...

Music in nineteenth century Sydney.(NOTES)(Sydney's International Exhibition, 1879)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Some time ago I wrote asking if there was any music composed and performed in Australia in the nineteenth century. One of our readers has drawn my attention to a recent book called Colonial City. Global City. Sydney's International Exhibition,...

Australia Imagined: Views from the British Periodical Press.
November 1, 2006... AUSTRALIA IMAGINED Views from the British Periodical Press 1800-1900 Perth, University of Western Australia Press, 7005 You could not be more nineteenth century Australia than this book. Periodicals or Magazines were a most important part...

A Biography of Tom Inglis Moore: A Love Affair with Australian Literature.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... A Biography of Tom Inglis Moore A Love Affair with Australian Literature. by Pacita Alexander and Elizabeth Perkins Canberra, Ginninderra Press, 2004 Tom Inglis Moore was a fourth generation Australian. The family was descended from a...

Australian Writers in London: London was full of Rooms.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Australian Writers in London London was full of Rooms edited by Tulley Barnett, Nena Bierbaum, Syd Harrex, Rick Hosking and Graham Tulloch Adelaide, Lythrum Press, 2006 Of course my interest in this new book is because it contains an...

Man of Honour, John Macarthur--Duellist, Rebel, Founding Father.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Man of Honour, John Macarthur--Duellist, Rebel, Founding Father by Michael Duffy Sydney, Macmillan, 2003 It was time that a new biography of John Macarthur should appear. Australian's have passed out of the world of emphasis of convicts...

Edna Walling. An extraordinary Life.
November 1, 2006... EDNA WALLING. An extraordinary Life by Sara Hardy Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 2005 As Trisha Dixon writes 'This celebration of Edna Walling's life is long overdue. Hardy has a refreshingly original approach to Biography, giving us a fitting...

Landscape Gardening in Australia.
November 1, 2006... LANDSCAPE GARDENING IN AUSTRALIA by Thomas Shepherd Canberra, Mulini Press, 2006 Here is another gardening book. It was first published in 1836 in Sydney by the Scottish Landscape Gardener Thomas Shepherd who established the first...