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

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

Editorial.(Editorial)
November 1, 2008... This has been a difficult year for me partly because I took a month off in May to fly to London to do some work on the John Lang Project in the British Library. I am still trying to catch up. The publication of Legends of India was completed...

Women poets of the Victorian forests.
November 1, 2008... In the nineteenth century a distinctive group of seven women poets flourished in eastern Victoria. All spent their early years in forested hill country similar to that of the Dandenongs near Melbourne. They were in the main from families of...

More on Donald Cameron.(Biography)
November 1, 2008... Donald Cameron was born in Armidale in 1845; his father was John Cameron and mother Ann. They were Presbyterians. according to the NSW Biographical index. I thought I had discovered Donald's father, John Cameron, as one of the earliest...

The green ticket.(Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh's travel to Australia)(Essay)
November 1, 2008... An Invitation to a Ball, Hyde Park, Sydney February 5, 1868 The then Duke of Edinburgh, Alfred--in fact the last Duke of that title before the present Duke--was in the Australian Colonies in late 1867 and early 1868. He travelled on board...

An early Australian born cabinet maker: William James Packer (known as James).(Biography)
November 1, 2008... We are often given the impression that the first settlement of Sydney was a make shift camp and was often referred to as a 'penal settlement'. That was the name given by those in England who in 1787 were opposed to the settlement of New South...

A Sydney Pantomime.(Sydney, Australia)(Essay)
November 1, 2008... The House that Jack Built. or Harlequin Jack Sydney Little Australia & The Gnome of the Golden Mine And the Australian Fernery in the Golden Conservatory The Home of Diamantina A Pantomime. Pantomimes were a...

John Lang page.
November 1, 2008... In October I attended the Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand (BSANZ). During the Conference I gave a paper on John Lang's novel The Secret Police or Plot and Passion. This novel was published in three...

Early works by Louisa Anne Meredith.
November 1, 2008... I wonder how many of the readers of Margin have visited Tasmania. Did they go to the East Coast of the island? If they did they might have visited the house of one of Tasmania's most famous writers. Louise Anne Meredith lived in the house...

A note on the Henry Handel Richardson Society tour.
November 1, 2008... The recently formed Henry Handel Richardson Society undertook a very successful tour of houses and places associated with the author's childhood in Victoria over the period from 9 to 11 October 2008. The bus tour began and ended in Chiltern...

The Dark Mountain.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... The Dark Mountain by Catherine Jinks. Allen and Unwin, 2008 at $32.95 Catherine is a well known Children's author but she also writes adult novels. This is one of the latter. I must say I was not impressed with the cover. It does...

Australian Short Fiction: A History.(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Australian Short Fiction: A History by Bruce Bennett University of Queensland Press, 2002. $30.00 Short Stories receive very little study except for the introductions in Anthologies. They have been and still are an important part of...