Recently added articles from M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia:
The three editors of The Atlas, a Sydney Journal 1844-1849.
Jul 01, 2008; ... The Atlas was a weekly newspaper or periodical. It was established in November 1844 and was entitled The Atlas, Sydney Weekly, Journal of Politics, Commerce and Literature. It continued publication until early 1849. Richard Thompson was noted as the first editor. The funds to establish the ...
John Lammonie: an early Australian composer.
Jul 01, 2008 ... Readers of recent issues of Margin will know that I have been 'carrying on' about the lack of information about early Australian music especially details about Australian composers. Imagine my surprise when listening to National Radio ABC Classic FM to hear the announcer introduce a ...
The Anthology of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction.
Jul 01, 2008 ... THE ANTHOLOGY OF COLONIAL AUSTRALIAN CRIME FICTION edited by Ken Gelder and Rachel Weaver. MUP 2008 Here is another collection of early Australian stories published by Melbourne University Press. It includes one of John Lang's stories, 'Barrington'. We already have The Oxford ...
John Lang Page.
Jul 01, 2008 ... During May this year I went to London to do some research on various aspects of the writings of John Lang for the New Mofussilite and the John Lang Project. I spent a considerable time in the British Library working on the papers of the East India Company. They are an enormous ...
The pick-handle election: when the miners took over Araluen.
Jul 01, 2008; ... On Polling Day December 14 1869, in the mining boom town of Araluen there were ominous signs that there was going to be trouble. It marked the beginning of two days of rioting when the mob took over the town and the democratic process was reduced to a farce. In 1869 the ...
Tales of the Bushman.(NEW BOOK)(Brief article)(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; ... This is a group of stories set in outback New South Wales in the 1840s. John Sydney came the Australia in the early 1840s and went out back to try his luck as a grazier. He had various adventures with bushrangers and Aboriginals and when he went back to England after ten years in the ...
Donald Cameron: another neglected Australian born novelist.
Jul 01, 2008; ... I first came across the name Donald Cameron in Toni Johnson Woods' Index to Serials for Australian Periodicals and Newspapers. Nineteenth Century. This is a treasure house of early Australian novels published as serials. There are well over a hundred of them and most were never published ...
Dickens's versions of Australia's story (i).(Charles Dickens)
Jul 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Australia appears only occasionally in Dickens's fiction. This is somewhat astonishing, because there is plenty of evidence that Australia had a fascination for him. In the journals that he edited, "Household Words" and "All the Year Round", we find some ...
The Shortland Family of the Royal Navy and Australasia with reference to the First Fleet'.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The Shortland Family of the Royal Navy and Australasia with reference to the First Fleet' by John Willoughby Shortland. Available: John Willoughby Shortland 23 Meldrum Ave., Miranda NSW 2228 This is a family history of the Shortland Family with particular reference to the three ...
Editorial.(Editorial)
Apr 01, 2008 ... This month I have written a short article about editing Margin because this is the fortieth issue of the magazine that I have edited over the last twelve years--not that I am giving up not until I reach fifty issues at least. I thought that some newer readers might be interested in the ...
Editing forty issues of Margin.(Editorial)
Apr 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I almost called this short article Marginal Editing because the magazine 'Margin' could be described as marginalia: it deals with nineteenth century life and literature and our early literature has been pushed to the very margin of our consciousness. Even ...
Literary links to a nineteenth-century murder.
Apr 01, 2008; ... This article explores an intriguing problem in research for my biography of Australian-born pioneer writer and naturalist, Louisa Atkinson--the tracing of her ostensibly missing step-father, George Bruce Barton. It is based on a paper I gave at the Australian Media Traditions Conference, ...
The home furnishing the house in early Australia.
Apr 01, 2008; ... In wandering through some of the houses owned by the National Trust of Australia with their pretty restored interiors I often wonder if that was actually how the rooms really looked or was it just a dream concept? Is it how we like to think the house appeared after it was built? An even ...
Jane Barker's letters from Canberra.
Apr 01, 2008; ... In October 1855, Jane Barker wrote from the Church of England parsonage on the Limestone Plains to her sister in England. She was a good horsewoman, and she described the 30 mile ride that she enjoyed that day. 'It was a pretty sight, the nine riders abreast, cantering briskly over miles ...
Adventures on the First Fleet of an American Sailor.
Apr 01, 2008; ... There is quite a collection of original Journals and accounts of the Voyage of the First Fleet which came to New South Wales in 1788 to establish the first colony in Australia. Most of these have been published and they were usually written by the Naval Officers and Officers of the Marines ...
Under the Spell of Ages. Australian Country Gardens.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Under the Spell of Ages. Australian Country Gardens by Trisha Dixon Canberra, National Library of Australia, 2007. This is a superb book a must have for those who love old gardens and those who love early Australian literature. Trisha Dixon is without doubt a great ...
A Note on Watkin Tench.
Apr 01, 2008; ... Readers may remember the first chapter of my biography of Watkin Tench about my work in tracing his family in Chester, England. There I took him back to his grandfather in Nantwich and his mother a Tarleton from Liverpool. I have since located Tench's will in which he left everything to ...
Editorial.(Editorial)
Nov 01, 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 Sydney in 1796 making it the first notice of a ...
George Lambert as book illustrator.
Nov 01, 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 works published by Angus and Robertson of ...
Joys and sorrows of a poet who loved the bush.
Nov 01, 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 Charles Harpur, remembered as ...