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Literary links to a nineteenth-century murder.
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M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia
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April 1, 2008
- Author:
- Clarke, Patricia
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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, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst on 22 November 2007.
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