Most Recent Articles from MARGIN: Life & Letters in Early Australia

• John Lang's play 'The Actor's Triumph' 

  John Lang had a great ambition to write for the stage. In his attempts to fulfil this desire he was never successful. He made a number of attempts...

  07/01/09 by Victor Crittenden · More from publication

• The celebrated George Barrington a spurious author; the book trade and Botany Bay 

  In his book Botany Bay, John Lang wrote a story about George Barrington in New South Wales. It is about the legendary George Barrington the...

  07/01/09 by Nathan Garvey · More from publication

• Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter 

  Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Many of you know about Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous Bushranger. Some of you may not...

  07/01/09 · More from publication

• Editorial 

  I had intended that for this issue I would report on two Conferences. First the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand held in...

  07/01/09 by Victor Crittenden · More from publication

• Rosa Praed's lifelines to her Australian past 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This article is based on a paper published as 'A Paradox of Exile' in Landscapes of Exile: Once Perilous, Now Safe, edited...

  07/01/09 by Patricia Clarke · More from publication

• A currency lad as playwright 

  Theatre was one of the major forms of entertainment in Colonial Australia. From the very earliest days of the new colonies plays were produced to...

  07/01/09 by Will Correy · More from publication

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