M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia articles from November 2007

M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia archives from November 2007

Editorial.(Editorial)
November 1, 2007... This month there are two rather important reports related to theatre, printing and music: first the theatre. The National Library of Australia received an unusual gift from the people of Canada. It is a theatre notice for a play presented in...

George Lambert as book illustrator.
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I originally intended to make the heading for this article 'George Lambert as Children's Book Illustrator'. I had to abandon this title when I discovered that Lambert had also illustrated a book of poems and other...

Joys and sorrows of a poet who loved the bush.
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I have never forgotten that dreadful evening. Even now, when I think of it, I can see my brother Washington galloping wildly home screaming, "Charlie's shot. Charlie's dead." So Mary Araluen, daughter of the poet...

Anna Maria Bunn and The Guardian.
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The first novel by a woman and published in Australia was The Guardian. A Tale by 'An Australian' published in Sydney in 1838, fifty years after white settlement, it was also the first novel published on the mainland...

Australia's first printed document and first theatre.
November 1, 2007... Many readers have most likely read about the recent arrival in Australia of the earliest piece of printing produced in this country. It came as a gift from the people of Canada and the Prime Minister of Canada recently presented the printed...

Don John of Austria: Australia's first opera.
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Very few Australians would know who Don John of Austria was and why he might be regarded as important enough to have an opera written about him and yet in the nineteenth century he was a well known figure in history....

The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore: Volume II 1930-1962.
November 1, 2007... The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore: Volume II 1930-1962, edited by Jennifer Strauss. The Academy Editions of Australian Literature. UQP 2007. 872 pp. This current volume is the much-awaited sequel to The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore:...