Colonial literature & writers
Articles
- ‘Oh, Vaunted Queensland!’: A Literary Interpretation, 1862-69
About the year 1862 there 'stranded somehow on the shore of Queensland' an ex-student of King's College, Aberdeen, who had been sent down six or…
1 October 1973 - The Historical Basis of ‘Robbery Under Arms’
Walker identifies people and events on which the characters and action of Robbery Under Arms was probably based. Walker demonstrates how Browne adapted the characters…
1 June 1965 - Primary Sources for the Study of the Vocabulary of Nineteenth Century Australian English
Ramson examines and assesses a range of colonial non-fiction sources for their use and representation of Australian English vocabulary.
1 December 1964 - Geoffry Hamlyn Through Contemporary Eyes
Hergenhan reads and compares contemporary reviews of Geoffry Hamlin, noting differences in the novel's reception between Australian and English reviews.
1 December 1966 - The Author of The Hibernian Father: An Early Colonial Playwright
He haunts the books on early Australian theatre and drama His play is lost. We know its gloomy and involved plot from newspaper reports and…
1 December 1966 - Romantic Attitudes in Geoffry Hamlyn
Scheuerle argues that the romantic attitudes found in Geoffry Hamlyn reflect Kingsley’s “boyish joviality” which enabled him to create characters and a story of “vigorous…
1 December 1965 - The Surrender to Truth in The Early Australian Novel
Hamer provides a survey of early Australian novels by writers including Henry Kingsley, Rosa Praed, Ada Cambridge, and Charles de Boos. The essay tracks the…
1 December 1965 - ‘Colonial Literature for Colonial Readers!’
Any research worker who requests the back files of one of the nineteenth century magazines or journals, other than perhaps the Bulletin, will soon…
1 October 1971 - What Created, What Perceived?: Early Responses to New South Wales
How, then, should we view the recent historiography of our imaginative evolution—as we have to date, as a valid description of what has occurred Or,…
1 October 1975 - Urban Influence on Australian Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century
Undoubtedly during the last half of the nineteenth century Australian cities and urban life generally had become vitally important in determining the nature of economic…
1 October 1975 - Australia’s ‘First’ Dramatists
Discusses early Australian theatre and drama in examining the question: Who wrote the first Australian play?
1 May 1969 - Charles Rowcroft: An Unpublished Memoir
In a recent article1 Mr Cecil Hadgraft (Australian Literary Studies, vol. 2, no. 3) uses the nineteenth century novelist Charles Rowcroft to exemplify…
1 October 1967 - James Lester Burke, Author of Martin Cash
James Lester Burke is the most neglected Tasmanian author. Paradoxically he is also a best seller. His Martin Cash—The Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land has…
1 June 1965 - The Treatment of the Aborigine in Early Australian Fiction, 1840-70
The novels which we will look at belong almost to different universes of discourse. Rowcroft's Tales of the Colonies (1843) deals with the aborigine in…
1 May 1972 - Anna Maria Murray, Authoress of The Guardian
Wilson discovers and provides a biographical sketch of Anna Maria Murray (1808-1889), the heretofore unknown author of The Guardian: A Tale, the first novel…
1 October 1967 - Review of The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn, Maurice Guest, and The Journal of Annie Baxter Dawbin: July 1858 - May 1868
The Academy editions of Australian literature announce themselves as 'the first series of critical editions of major works' (Foreword to each volume). Each volume 'has…
1 May 1999 - Shrouded Histories: Outlaw and Lawmaker, Republican Politics and Women’s Interests
This essay reads the novel of expatriate colonial writer Rosa Praed, Outlaw and Lawmaker (1893), as an intervention in the public debate about the Irish…
1 May 2003 - ‘Does all Melbourne smell like this?’: The Colonial Metropolis in Marvellous Melbourne
A few years after George Augustus Sala had coined the term ‘Marvellous Melbourne’ in 1885, a play with that title was written and performed with…
1 May 2003 - The Support of Literature in Colonial Australia
Stewart discusses the economic condition and patronage of writers and the literary marketplace in colonial Australia, focusing particularly on the tropes of the 'Neglected Writer'…
1 October 1980 - Charles Rowcroft: Information, Corrections, Additions
Charles Rowcroft (1798-1856) is probably best known for Tales of the Colonies; or the Adventures of an Emigrant. Edited by a Late Colonial Magistrate (1843)…
1 October 1983
Contributors
- Alan Frost
- Kay Ferres
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Clive Hamer
- Wilhelm Hiener
- J. E. Hiener
- J. J. Healy
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Eric Irvin
- Pauline Kirk
- Lorna L. McDonald
- Helen Oppenheim
- W. S. Ramson
- Delyse Ryan
- William H. Scheuerle
- John B. Shipley
- Ken A. Stewart
- Robin Berwick Walker
- Judith M. Woodward
- Gwendoline Wilson
- Elaine J Zinkhan