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Editorial.(Editorial)
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 and work on Lang's novel Plot and Passion or The Secret Police has also been completed. All the other things I intended to do in 2008 will have to be done in 2009.
In spite of the claims that 'everything' is now available on the Internet I had to go to London's British Library, to consult the huge mountain of papers of the East India Company. They are not on the Internet. They have not been digitised and there are no plans to do that. Many newspapers are available now but the Indian ones which have John Lang material in them have not been dealt with. I am fortunate that The Mofussilite has been microfilmed and the National Library of Australia has a copy which means that I can certainly use that source for material.
There is an increasing republication of many Australian nineteenth century novels by a digitised process especially in the United States. I have just been looking at ...
- John Lang Page.
- Magazine article from: M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia July 1, 2008 700+ words
...Mofussilite and the John Lang Project. I spent a considerable time in the British Library working on the papers...look at the novels by John Lang held in the British Library, the most complete collection of John Lang books. Many of them...
- The death of Imam Hussein.(JOHN LANG PAGE)
- Magazine article from: M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia Lang, John April 1, 2009 700+ words
...Imam Hussein is buried elsewhere. John Lang's poem The Death of Imam Hussien...There is a copy of the book in the British Library and I was able to make a copy when...different groups of believers. John Lang's poem is a dramatic telling...
- John Lang's first book signed by him.(John Lang Page)
- Magazine article from: M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia July 1, 2006 700+ words
John Lang's first novel Violet or the Danseuse...discovery of this book in my biography, John Lang Australia's Larrikin Writer. However...Horace and was a free translation with John Lang using his facility in verse writing to...
- The John Lang page.
- Magazine article from: M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia August 1, 2007 700+ words
The John Lang Project continues to flourish with the...New Mofussilite, the Journal of the John Lang Project for the mid year edition 2007...in The Mofussilite is claimed to be by John Lang. An interesting aspect of the publication...
- The five ghost of John Lang.
- Magazine article from: M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia Crittenden, Victor April 1, 2007 700+ words
...allowed the identity of the author, John Lang, to emerge from the discussion of the...The Ghost upon the Rail published in John Lang's book Botany Bay or True Tales of...begin I should say a few words about John Lang the novelist Lang was the first Australian...
- John Lang page.
- Magazine article from: M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia November 1, 2008 700+ words
...During the Conference I gave a paper on John Lang's novel The Secret Police or Plot and...was published in three versions during John Lang's lifetime. It appeared first in Lang...London from the story given to him by John Lang. There are close connections between...
- John Lang: Australia's Larrikin Writer, Barrister, Novelist, Journalist and...
- Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies Johnson-Woods, Toni April 1, 2007 700+ words
John Lang: Australia's Larrikin Writer, Barrister, Novelist, Journalist...Press, 2005. Paperback, $38.95. In the first book of the John Lang Project, John Lang: Australia's Larrikin Writer, Barrister, Novelist, Journalist...
- Mazarine John Lang's 1845 novel.
- Magazine article from: M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia Crittenden, Victor July 1, 2005 700+ words
...novel, was published as a serial in John Lang's Indian newspaper The Mofussilite...We know that the work was written by John Lang because he republished the novel again...specifically noted in the text. At this time John Lang was in England and was still or had been...