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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...
MARGIN: Life & Letters in Early Australia, 07/01/09 by Victor Crittenden · 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...
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Rare Australian children's books
You all have memories of the books that you read or had read to you when you were young. I remember Blinky Bill, Peter Pan (not Australian) and Bib...
MARGIN: Life & Letters in Early Australia, 04/01/09 by Victor Crittenden · More from publication -
Editorial
In this issue of Margin been thinking about The Australian National Trust. This organisation, a private organisation (not a Government body) is...
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The Stockman's Daughter: Charles De Boos' Bushranger novel of 1856
The Stockman "s Daughter by Charles De Boos was published as a serial in The People's Advocate in Sydney in 1856. It is a bushranger novel with two...
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More on Donald Cameron
Donald Cameron was born in Armidale in 1845; his father was John Cameron and mother Ann. They were Presbyterians. according to the NSW Biographical...
MARGIN: Life & Letters in Early Australia, 11/01/08 by Victor Crittenden · More from publication -
An early Australian born cabinet maker: William James Packer
We are often given the impression that the first settlement of Sydney was a make shift camp and was often referred to as a 'penal settlement'. That...
MARGIN: Life & Letters in Early Australia, 11/01/08 by Victor Crittenden · More from publication -
The three editors of The Atlas, a Sydney Journal 1844-1849
The Atlas was a weekly newspaper or periodical. It was established in November 1844 and was entitled The Atlas, Sydney Weekly, Journal of Politics,...
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Donald Cameron: another neglected Australian born novelist
I first came across the name Donald Cameron in Toni Johnson Woods' Index to Serials for Australian Periodicals and Newspapers. Nineteenth Century....
MARGIN: Life & Letters in Early Australia, 07/01/08 by Victor Crittenden · More from publication -
Adventures on the First Fleet of an American Sailor
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...
MARGIN: Life & Letters in Early Australia, 04/01/08 by Victor Crittenden · More from publication
