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Ballarat 2013 Pty Douglas Stewart Fine Books Ltd Melbourne • Australia # 4074
BALLARAT 2013 PTY DOUGLAS STEWART FINE BOOKS LTD MELBOURNE • AUSTRALIA # 4074 Print Post Approved 342086/0034 Add your details to our email list for monthly New Acquisitions, visit www.DouglasStewart.com.au Ballarat Antique Fair 9-11 March 2013 # 4076 PTY DOUGLAS STEWART FINE BOOKS LTD PO Box 272 • Prahran • Melbourne • VIC 3181 • Australia • +61 3 9510 8484 [email protected] • www.DouglasStewart.com.au Some account of my doings in Australia from 1855 to 1862. REYNOLDS, Frederick AN APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF LIFE ON THE VICTORIAN GOLDFIELDS DURING THE 1850s. Circa 1870. Manuscript written in ink on [27] pp, being one gathering from a contemporary quarto size notebook, the text complete in itself, titled on first page Some account of my doings in Australia from 1855 to 1862; written in one hand throughout and signed by the author Frederick Reynolds at the foot of the final page; beneath this signature is written in pencil in a slightly later hand (probably that of a family member) Husband of Guglielma Melford; the handwriting throughout the manuscript is bold, neat and entirely legible, and Reynolds’ expression is that of a literate, reasonably well-educated person; the thickish notepaper, of a type consistent with an 1870s dating, is toned around the edges but is extremely well preserved and shows no signs of brittleness; the black ink displays a higher level of oxidisation (ie. is slightly browner) on the exposed first page than on the inner pages of the manuscript, as should be expected. The narrative reveals that Frederick Reynolds was an English miner from Bridgewater in Somerset. -
The Scottish Background of the Sydney Publishing and Bookselling
NOT MUCH ORIGINALITY ABOUT US: SCOTTISH INFLUENCES ON THE ANGUS & ROBERTSON BACKLIST Caroline Viera Jones he Scottish background of the Sydney publishing and bookselling firm of TAngus & Robertson influenced the choice of books sold in their bookshops, the kind of manuscripts commissioned and the way in which these texts were edited. David Angus and George Robertson brought fi'om Scotland an emphasis on recognising and fostering a quality homegrown product whilst keeping abreast of the London tradition. This prompted them to publish Australian authors as well as to appreciate a British literary canon and to supply titles from it. Indeed, whilst embracing his new homeland, George Robertson's backlist of sentimental nationalistic texts was partly grounded in the novels and verse written and compiled by Sir Walter Scott, Robert Bums and the border balladists. Although their backlist was eclectic, the strong Scottish tradition of publishing literary journals, encyclopaedias and religious titles led Angus & Robertson, 'as a Scotch firm' to produce numerous titles for the Presbyterian Church, two volumes of the Australian Encyclopaedia and to commission writers from journals such as the Bulletin. 1 As agent to the public and university libraries, bookseller, publisher and Book Club owner, the firm was influential in selecting primary sources for the colony of New South Wales, supplying reading material for its Public Library and fulfilling the public's educational and literary needs. 2 The books which the firm published for the See Rebecca Wiley, 'Reminiscences of George Robertson and Angus & Robertson Ltd., 1894-1938' ( 1945), unpublished manuscript, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, ML MSS 5238. -
Australian Poems You NEED to KNOW
1OO Australian Poems You NEED TO KNOW Edited by Jamie Grant Foreword by Phillip Adams hardiegrant books MELBOURNE-LONDON Convict and Stockrider A Convict's Tour to Hell Francis Macnamara ('Frank the Poet') 16 The Beautiful Squatter Charles Harpur 22 Taking the Census Charles R Thatcher 23 The Sick Stockrider Adam Lindsay Gordon 25 The Red Page My Other Chinee Cook James Brunton Stephens 30 Bell-birds Henry Kendall 32 Are You the Cove? Joseph Furphy ('Tom Collins') 34 How McDougal Topped the Score Thomas E Spencer 35 The Wail of the Waiter Marcus Clarke 38 Where the Pelican Builds Mary Hannay Foott 40 Catching the Coach Alfred T Chandler ('Spinifex') 41 Narcissus and Some Tadpoles Victor J Daley 44 6 i Contents Gundagai to Ironbark Nine Miles from Gundagai Jack Moses 48 The Duke of Buccleuch JA Philp 49 How We Drove the Trotter WTGoodge 50 Our Ancient Ruin 'Crupper D' 52 The Brucedale Scandal Mary Gilmore 53 Since the Country Carried Sheep Harry Morant ('The Breaker') 56 The Man from Ironbark AB Paterson (The Banjo') 58 The Old Whimrhorse Edward Dyson 60 Where the Dead Men Lie Barcroft Boake 62 Australia Bernard O'Dowd , 64 The Stockman's Cheque EW Hornung 65 The Bullocky's Love-episode AF York 67 Bastard and Bushranger «<§!> The Bastard from the Bush Anonymous 70 When your Pants Begin to Go Henry Lawson 72 The Fisher Roderic Quinn 74 The Mystery Man 'NQ' 75 Emus Mary Fullerton 76 The Death of Ben Hall Will H Ogilvie 77 The Coachman's Yarn EJ Brady 80 Fire in the Heavens, and Fire Along the Hills Christopher Brennan 83 The Orange Tree -
Guide to the Christopher Brennan Collection
RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS University Library GUIDE TO THE CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN COLLECTION DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY Collection Number: RB017 Collection Dates: 1887 - 1976 Title: Christopher Brennan Collection Creator: E.L. Hadley and M. Delmer Languages Represented: English, French, Latin Extent: 2 boxes Repository: University of Sydney Library, Rare Books and Special Collections Abstract: Christopher Brennan (1870-1932) was an Australian poet and scholar. He was a graduate of the University of Sydney (philosophy and classics) and studied at the University of Berlin from 1892-94. After discovering the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé he returned to Australia to devote the next ten years of his life to poetry, in which he explored the theme of the search for Eden. He worked at the Public Library of New South Wales from 1895 to 1907. He was appointed lecturer in French and German at the University of Sydney in 1909. From 1920 to 1925 he was associate professor in German and Comparative Literature. The Christopher Brennan Collection contains correspondence, part of a proof copy of Brennan's poems (1913), lecture notes, books, newspaper cuttings and etchings. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Provenance Purchased from and donated by Miss E.L. Hadley and Miss M. Delmer. Miss Esme Hadley (died 1970) studied at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1914 with a BA Honours in French and German. It was during her time at the university that she met Christopher Brennan. During the 1930s she studied in Germany where she saw Hitler's first rally and attended the Berlin Olympic Games. She taught at Sydney Girls High from 1933 - 37 and from 1945 to her retirement in 1956. -
Artistic Identity in the Published Writings of Margaret Thomas (C1840-1929)
University of Wollongong Research Online University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016 University of Wollongong Thesis Collections 1993 Artistic identity in the published writings of Margaret Thomas (c1840-1929) Lynn Patricia Brunet University of Wollongong Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses University of Wollongong Copyright Warning You may print or download ONE copy of this document for the purpose of your own research or study. The University does not authorise you to copy, communicate or otherwise make available electronically to any other person any copyright material contained on this site. You are reminded of the following: This work is copyright. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this work may be reproduced by any process, nor may any other exclusive right be exercised, without the permission of the author. Copyright owners are entitled to take legal action against persons who infringe their copyright. A reproduction of material that is protected by copyright may be a copyright infringement. A court may impose penalties and award damages in relation to offences and infringements relating to copyright material. Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements involving the conversion of material into digital or electronic form. Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong. Recommended Citation Brunet, Lynn Patricia, Artistic identity in the published writings of Margaret Thomas (c1840-1929), Master of Creative Arts (Hons.) thesis, School of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, 1993. -
1 Cathy Perkins. the Shelf Life of Zora Cross. Clayton
Cathy Perkins. The Shelf Life of Zora Cross. Clayton: Monash University Publishing, 2020. 285 pp. A$29.95. ISBN: 978-1-925835-53-3 Once a week for two years, I caught the bus from West End to Teneriffe in Brisbane for French classes, stepping off at Skyring Terrace near the new Gasworks Plaza. I was terrible at French and never did my homework, but I persisted out of a lifelong dream of writing in Paris. When I picked up Cathy Perkins’s The Shelf Life of Zora Cross, I realised that I was walking a street with a literary connection: Skyring was the surname of writer Zora Cross’s grandfather. Chance encounters bring us to poetry. In the basement of the Mitchell Library in NSW, a collection of letters led researcher Cathy Perkins to the author of the enormously popular Songs of Love and Life, published in 1917. Although this work sold four thousand copies via three reprints, by the time of Cross’s death in 1964 the author was slipping into obscurity. Two efforts had been made to draw attention to her importance in Australia’s literary history: Dorothy Green’s Australian Dictionary of Biography entry (1981) and an attempted biography by Michael Sharkey which was abandoned in favour of a biography of Cross’s partner, writer David McKee Wright. By the mid-1980s, Perkins writes, Cross had ‘fallen so far from literary consciousness that poets Judith Wright and Rosemary Dobson felt safe in recommending that the Australian Jockey Club name a horserace after her’ (86–87). By contrast Perkins, when she found a reference to Songs of Love and Life in the basement among the letters of George Robertson, publisher at Angus and Robertson, she was captivated. -
Historians, Tasmania
QUEEN VICTORIA MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY CHS 72 THE VON STIEGLITZ COLLECTION Historians, Tasmania INTRODUCTION THE RECORDS 1.von Stieglitz Family Papers 2.Correspondence 3.Financial Records 4.Typescripts 5.Miscellaneous Records 6.Newspaper Cuttings 7.Historical Documents 8.Historical Files 9.Miscellaneous Items 10.Ephemera 11.Photographs OTHER SOURCES INTRODUCTION Karl Rawdon von Stieglitz was born on 19 August 1893 at Evandale, the son of John Charles and Lillian Brooke Vere (nee Stead) von Stieglitz. The first members of his family to come to Van Diemen’s Land were Frederick Lewis von Stieglitz and two of his brothers who arrived in 1829. Henry Lewis, another brother, and the father of John Charles and grandfather of Karl, arrived the following year. John Charles von Stieglitz, after qualifying as a surveyor in Tasmania, moved to Northern Queensland in 1868, where he worked as a surveyor with the Queensland Government, later acquiring properties near Townsville. In 1883, at Townsville he married Mary Mackenzie, who died in 1883. Later he went to England where he married Lillian Stead in London in 1886. On his return to Tasmania he purchased “Andora”, Evandale: the impressive house on the property was built for him in 1888. He was the MHA for Evandale from 1891 to 1903. Karl von Stieglitz visited England with his father during 1913-1914. After his father’s death in 1916, he took possession of “Andora”. He enlisted in the First World War in 1916, but after nearly a year in the AIF (AMC branch) was unable to proceed overseas due to rheumatic fever. -
A STUDY GUIDE by Katy Marriner
© ATOM 2012 A STUDY GUIDE BY KATY MARRINER http://www.metromagazine.com.au ISBN 978-1-74295-267-3 http://www.theeducationshop.com.au Raising the Curtain is a three-part television series celebrating the history of Australian theatre. ANDREW SAW, DIRECTOR ANDREW UPTON Commissioned by Studio, the series tells the story of how Australia has entertained and been entertained. From the entrepreneurial risk-takers that brought the first Australian plays to life, to the struggle to define an Australian voice on the worldwide stage, Raising the Curtain is an in-depth exploration of all that has JULIA PETERS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ALINE JACQUES, SERIES PRODUCER made Australian theatre what it is today. students undertaking Drama, English, » NEIL ARMFIELD is a director of Curriculum links History, Media and Theatre Studies. theatre, film and opera. He was appointed an Officer of the Order Studying theatre history and current In completing the tasks, students will of Australia for service to the arts, trends, allows students to engage have demonstrated the ability to: nationally and internationally, as a with theatre culture and develop an - discuss the historical, social and director of theatre, opera and film, appreciation for theatre as an art form. cultural significance of Australian and as a promoter of innovative Raising the Curtain offers students theatre; Australian productions including an opportunity to study: the nature, - observe, experience and write Australian Indigenous drama. diversity and characteristics of theatre about Australian theatre in an » MICHELLE ARROW is a historian, as an art form; how a country’s theatre analytical, critical and reflective writer, teacher and television pre- reflects and shape a sense of na- manner; senter. -
The Bulletin Story Book a Selection of Stories and Literary Sketches from “The Bulletin”
The Bulletin Story Book A Selection of Stories and Literary Sketches from “The Bulletin” A digital text sponsored by Australian Literature Gateway University of Sydney Library Sydney http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/bulstor © University of Sydney Library. The texts and images are not to be used for commercial purposes without permission 2003 Source Text: Prepared from the print edition published by The Bulletin Newspaper Company Sydney 1902 303pp Extensive efforts have been made to track rights holders Please let us know if you have information on this. All quotation marks are retained as data. First Published: 1901 A823.8909/1 Australian Etext Collections at short stories 1890-1909 The Bulletin Story Book A Selection of Stories and Literary Sketches from “The Bulletin” Sydney The Bulletin Newspaper Company 1902 2nd Edition Prefatory THE files of The Bulletin for twenty years offer so much material for a book such as this, that it was not possible to include more than a small number of the stories and literary sketches judged worthy of republication. Consequently many excellent Australian writers are here unrepresented, their work being perforce held over for The Second Bulletin Story Book, although it is work of a quality equal to that which is now given. The risk and expense of this publication are undertaken by The Bulletin Newspaper Company, Limited. Should any profits accrue, a share of forty per cent, will be credited to the writers represented. Owing to the length of time which, in some cases, has elapsed since the original publication in The Bulletin, the names and addresses of some of the writers have been lost sight of; and their work appears over pen-names, The editor will be glad if these writers will communicate with him and assist in completing the Biographical Index at the end of the book. -
Adam Lindsay Gordon - Poems
Classic Poetry Series Adam Lindsay Gordon - poems - Publication Date: 2012 Publisher: Poemhunter.com - The World's Poetry Archive Adam Lindsay Gordon(19 October 1833 – 24 June 1870) Gordon was born at Fayal in the Azores, son of Captain Adam Durnford Gordon who had married his first cousin, Harriet Gordon, both of whom were descended from Adam of Gordon of the ballad. Captain Gordon, who had retired from the Bengal cavalry and taught Hindustani, was then staying at the Azores for the sake of his wife's health. After living on the island of Madeira, they went to England and lived at Cheltenham in 1840. Gordon was sent to Cheltenham College in 1841 when he was only seven, but after he had been there a year he was sent to a school kept by the Rev. Samuel Ollis Garrard in Gloucestershire. He attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in 1848, where he was a contemporary and friend of Charles George Gordon (no relation, later 'Gordon of Khartoum') and Thomas Bland Strange (later known as 'Gunner Jingo'). There Gordon appears to have been good at sports, but not studious and certainly undisciplined – and like Richard Henry Horne, he was asked to leave. Gordon was again admitted a pupil at Cheltenham College. He was not there for long – he appears to have left in the middle of 1852 – but the story that he was expelled from Cheltenham is without foundation. Then Gordon was sent to the Royal Grammar School Worcester in 1852. Gordon began to lead a wild and aimless life, contracted debts, and was a great anxiety to his father, who at last decided that his son should go to Australia and make a fresh start in 1853 to join the mounted police with a letter of introduction to the Governor. -
Australian Elegy: Landscape and Identity
Australian Elegy: Landscape and Identity by Janine Gibson BA (Hons) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of (Doctor of Philosophy) Deakin University December, 2016 Acknowledgments I am indebted to the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University (Geelong), especially to my principal supervisor Professor David McCooey whose enthusiasm, constructive criticism and encouragement has given me immeasurable support. I would like to gratefully acknowledge my associate supervisors Dr. Maria Takolander and Dr. Ann Vickery for their interest and invaluable input in the early stages of my thesis. The unfailing help of the Library staff in searching out texts, however obscure, as well as the support from Matt Freeman and his helpful staff in the IT Resources Department is very much appreciated. Sincere thanks to the Senior HDR Advisor Robyn Ficnerski for always being there when I needed support and reassurance; and to Ruth Leigh, Kate Hall, Jo Langdon, Janine Little, Murray Noonan and Liam Monagle for their help, kindness and for being so interested in my project. This thesis is possible due to my family, to my sons Luke and Ben for knowing that I could do this, and telling me often, and for Jane and Aleisha for caring so much. Finally, to my partner Jeff, the ‘thesis watcher’, who gave me support every day in more ways than I can count. Abstract With a long, illustrious history from the early Greek pastoral poetry of Theocritus, the elegy remains a prestigious, flexible Western poetic genre: a key space for negotiating individual, communal and national anxieties through memorialization of the dead. -
Ii: Mary Alice Evatt, Modern Art and the National Art Gallery of New South Wales
Cultivating the Arts Page 394 CHAPTER 9 - WAGING WAR ON THE ESTABLISHMENT? II: MARY ALICE EVATT, MODERN ART AND THE NATIONAL ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES The basic details concerning Mary Alice Evatt's patronage of modern art have been documented. While she was the first woman appointed as a member of the board of trustees of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, the rest of her story does not immediately suggest continuity between her cultural interests and those of women who displayed neither modernist nor radical inclinations; who, for example, manned charity- style committees in the name of music or the theatre. The wife of the prominent judge and Labor politician, Bert Evatt, Mary Alice studied at the modernist Sydney Crowley-Fizelle and Melbourne Bell-Shore schools during the 1930s. Later, she studied in Paris under Andre Lhote. Her husband shared her interest in art, particularly modern art, and opened the first exhibition of the Contemporary Art Society in Melbourne 1939, and an exhibition in Sydney in the same year. His brother, Clive Evatt, as the New South Wales Minister for Education, appointed Mary Alice to the Board of Trustees in 1943. As a trustee she played a role in the selection of Dobell's portrait of Joshua Smith for the 1943 Archibald Prize. Two stories thus merge to obscure further analysis of Mary Alice Evatt's contribution to the artistic life of the two cities: the artistic confrontation between modernist and anti- modernist forces; and the political career of her husband, particularly knowledge of his later role as leader of the Labor opposition to Robert Menzies' Liberal Party.