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R. G. Campbell compiled this anthology in 1954, hoping to publish a collection of the best short stories he had first published in the pages of the monthly story magazine, the Australian Journal. A letter accompanying the typescript anthology suggests that it was submitted to Beatrice Davis at Angus and Robertson, but the anthology was never published and Davis's response has not survived.
Contents
- The Early Victorian, R. Wenban (illustrator), single work short story historical fiction
- Mulligan Taubada, single work short story
- Collecting the Evidence, single work short story humour
- Reunion, single work short story
- The First White Man, Alex McRae (illustrator), single work short story historical fiction
- We'll All Go to See the Sea, single work short story humour
- Safe Horizon, single work short story war literature
- The Sky Stone, single work short story
- The Night I Poisoned Grandpa, single work short story
- Miss Tarleton, single work short story
- A Visit to the Dead Heart, single work short story
- The Main Road, single work short story
- The King of Lugger Town, single work short story
- Seven Emus, single work short story
- Why Did They Look at Mr. Smith, single work
- The Book, single work short story
- Art and Artifice, single work short story
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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RG Campbell’s ‘The Australian Journal Story Book’
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Fryer Folios , November vol. 11 no. 1 2017; (p. 4-7)'The Australian Journal (1865–1957) is wellknown to students of Australian literature as a publisher of Australian fiction, including the first version of Marcus Clarke’s celebrated convict novel, For the term of his natural life. Apart from the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century when it relied heavily on syndicated fiction from overseas, The Australian Journal was consistently a significant publisher of Australian fiction, issuing several thousand stories by some hundreds of Australian writers. Histories of magazines acknowledge the preeminence of the magazine in the 1870s, but then ignore or treat cursorily its next eighty years. However, not only did the journal survive for ninety years, but under the editorship of RG Campbell from 1926 to 1955 it fostered the careers of a range of freelance Australian writers, contributing to their incomes and allowing them to develop their craft.' (Introduction)
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RG Campbell’s ‘The Australian Journal Story Book’
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Fryer Folios , November vol. 11 no. 1 2017; (p. 4-7)'The Australian Journal (1865–1957) is wellknown to students of Australian literature as a publisher of Australian fiction, including the first version of Marcus Clarke’s celebrated convict novel, For the term of his natural life. Apart from the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century when it relied heavily on syndicated fiction from overseas, The Australian Journal was consistently a significant publisher of Australian fiction, issuing several thousand stories by some hundreds of Australian writers. Histories of magazines acknowledge the preeminence of the magazine in the 1870s, but then ignore or treat cursorily its next eighty years. However, not only did the journal survive for ninety years, but under the editorship of RG Campbell from 1926 to 1955 it fostered the careers of a range of freelance Australian writers, contributing to their incomes and allowing them to develop their craft.' (Introduction)
