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John Arnold John Arnold i(A13155 works by) (birth name: John Frederick Arnold)
Born: Established: 1950 Kew, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Bibliography of Australian Literature Supplement John Arnold (editor), Terence O'Neill (editor), Christopher Wood (editor), Rowan Gibbs , Clayton : Melbourne University Press , 2022 23686985 2022 single work bibliography

'The Supplement to the Bibliography of Australian Literature (BAL) completes the most comprehensive reference to Australian creative writing ever published. The four volumes of BAL recorded details of all separately published creative literature by Australian writers from 1788 to 2000. Core genres covered were poetry, fiction, drama and children’s writing. This Supplement includes some 2700 new Australian authors and over 7000 titles by them. It also provides new and updated information on many of the authors listed in the original four volumes.

'BAL and the Supplement have no canon. All books and pamphlets in the core genres published by Australian authors are included, regardless of perceived or accepted literary merit. To BAL, the self-published book of verse is as important as the prize-winning novel by an established author.

'For each work in a core genre, details of the first edition and, where applicable, the first Australian, UK, US, Canadian and New Zealand editions are listed, as well as significant new or revised editions and translations. Awards won and additional information relevant to individual authors and titles are also included. Where an author has also published in other fields (e.g. biography), titles are selectively listed under ‘Other Works’ or mentioned in the ‘Comment/s’ section. Indexes of titles and pseudonyms and various writing names enhance the extensive alphabetical author listing.

'This Supplement, like its predecessors, is an essential source for the study of Australian literature to the end of the twentieth century.' (Publication summary)

1 A Harbinger for Eric Partridge : The Scholaris Press Edition of Francis Grose's A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue John Arnold , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 45 no. 2 2021; (p. 89-104)
1 Addenda to 'Worthwhile Rarities? The Fiction of Eric Partridge John Arnold , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 45 no. 1 2021; (p. 29-41)
1 Shared Interests : Russell and Mabel Grimwade’s Legacy John Arnold , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 434 2021; (p. 62)

— Review of Pride of Place : Exploring the Grimwade Collection 2020 multi chapter work criticism art work

'Pride of Place describes in detail a selection of the outstanding collection of Australian books, paintings, photographs, and prints that Russell and Mabel Grimwade donated to the University of Melbourne. The main focus is on Russell, but they were clearly a team with shared interests in Australian native trees and plants and the European history of Australia.' (Introduction)

1 Reminiscences of Melbourne Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookshops John Arnold , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes & Queries , March no. 401 2019; (p. 3-19)
1 Peter Pierce (1950–2018) John Arnold , 2018 single work
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , vol. 43 no. 4 2018; (p. 403-405)

'The sudden death of Peter Pierce at the relatively young age of 68 has robbed Australian Studies of one of its ablest practitioners. On Tuesday 4 September Peter collapsed in the foyer of the apartment complex in inner city Melbourne where he and wife Rae lived, and died shortly afterwards.' (Introduction)

1 Editorial John Arnold , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: The La Trobe Journal , March no. 101 2018; (p. 4-5)

'Through the memoirs of former Library staff, this issue of the journal focuses on the history of State Library Victoria. The period covered by these memoirs is around two-thirds of the Library’s history of more than 160 years.' (Introduction)

1 La Trobe's Legacy : A Sympathetic Biography of Victoria's First Governor John Arnold , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January–February no. 398 2018; (p. 34)

'Victorians know the name La Trobe through the eponymous university, La Trobe Street in the city of Melbourne, and the Latrobe Valley in Gippsland. Tasmanians are familiar with the town of Latrobe in the north-west of their state. But how many are aware that all the above were named after Charles Joseph La Trobe, the first superintendent of the European settlement of Port Phillip, one-time acting governor of Tasmania, and the first lieutenant-governor of the new British colony of Victoria?' (Introduction)

1 [Review] La Trobe: Traveller, Writer, Governor John Arnold , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 397 2017; (p. Online only)

— Review of La Trobe: Traveller, Writer, Governor John Barnes , 2017 single work biography

'Victorians know the name La Trobe through the eponymous university, La Trobe Street in the city of Melbourne, and the Latrobe Valley in Gippsland. Tasmanians are familiar with the town of Latrobe in the north-west of their state. But how many are aware that all the above were named after Charles Joseph La Trobe, the first superintendent of the European settlement of Port Phillip, one-time acting governor of Tasmania, and the first lieutenant-governor of the new British colony of Victoria?' (Introduction)

1 John G. Brandon and ‘Coutts Brisbane’ : Two Australian Contributors to Sexton Blake and Inter-war Popular Fiction John Arnold , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Popular Culture , March vol. 6 no. 1 2017; (p. 117-133)

'This article will look at the careers of two Australian expatriate writers, John Gordon Brandon and Robert Coutts Armour, better known as ‘Coutts Brisbane’. Both were born in Australia and both travelled to England to further their careers in their mid-to-late 20s, one in the theatre and the other as an artist. They both became, however, writers of popular fiction, especially of stories for boys, both being frequent contributors to the Sexton Blake Library. Coutts Brisbane was also a pioneer Science Fiction writer. Neither returned to Australia, but their stories and books did and it can well be argued that, despite their being known today only to collectors and a few specialists, both made interesting contributions to popular culture in England (and to Australia) in the second to fourth decades of the last century.' (Publication abstract)

1 Editorial John Arnold , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The La Trobe Journal , March no. 99 2017; (p. 4-5)

'This issue of the La Trobe Journal has a distinct biographical flavour and

includes articles on a range of notable individuals with a diversity of interests

and experience. It opens with Sandra McComb’s survey of the remarkable life

of the explorer and linguist Alfred Howitt, author of The Native Tribes of SouthEast

Australia (1904).' (Introduction)

1 Head to Foot John Arnold , 2017 single work essay review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January-February no. 388 2017; (p. 16)

'At the launch of Up Came a Squatter, Geoffrey Blainey reflected on how important the wool industry was to Australia for more than a hundred years. He noted that forty or fifty years ago you would not have bothered to mention the fact: it was as understood as the vagaries of Melbourne’s weather. Now wool is not even among Australia’s twenty top exports. Many of those present listening to Blainey and the author speak were from the Western District, descendants of Niel Black and others who established squatting runs in the 1830s and 1840s on the lands of Australia Felix ‘discovered’ by Major Mitchell during his overland expedition of 1836. An inevitable result of the land’s rapid occupation by squatters was the dispossession and near destruction of the local indigenous peoples.'

(Introduction)

1 The Beasts John Arnold , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 383 2016; (p. 73)

— Review of Passions of a Mighty Heart : The Selected Letters of G.W.L. Marshall-Hall G. W. L. Marshall-Hall , 2015 selected work correspondence
1 Wanderer John Arnold , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 384 2016; (p. 64)

— Review of The Vagabond Papers : Sketches of Melbourne Life, in Light and Shade Vagabond , 1876-1878 selected work prose biography
'In March 2016 the Royal Historical Society of Victoria hosted a function to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Michael Cannon's The Land Boomers, first issued in 1966 and several times since. The various speakers paid tribute to Cannon's work as a freelance historian and editor whose many books provided fresh and accessible insights into nineteenth-century Australian life.' (Introduction)
1 William Nicholas Willis, Père, Fils and Family and the Anglo-Eastern Publishing Company John Arnold , James Doig , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Script & Print , December vol. 39 no. 4 2015; (p. 197-220)
'William Nicholas Willis (1858-1922) is one of the more obscure Australian writers and publishers of the first half of the twentieth century. Better known in his home country as a corrupt politician, he left Australia around 1910 for Singapore before moving onto London a year later. In addition to writing a couple of racing novels, he mounted a spirited campaign against the evils of the white slave trade, producing several polemical books on the topic.' (Publication abstract)
1 1 Worthwhile Rarities? : The Fiction of Eric Partridge John Arnold , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Script & Print , September vol. 39 no. 3 2015; (p. 182-190)

'Eric Partridge is rightly known as a major lexicographer and the chronicler of slang: the American critic Edmund Wilson went so far as to describe him as “the word king” of the twentieth century. Many people would have at least one of his books such as Usage and Abusage of English, Origins, Dictionary of Catch Phrases or a version of his monumental Dictionary of Slang on their shelves. His role as a founder and proprietor of the Scholartis Press is also known, but to a lesser extent. His World War I army service—he was a genuine Anzac in that he was born in New Zealand but served in the Australian Imperial Force and saw active service at both Gallipoli and the Western Front—is just known. His outstanding war memoir, Frank Honywood, Private is hardly known although it deserves to be widely read. But very few people know that Eric Partridge also wrote and published fiction.'

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1 Potboilers John Arnold , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 374 2015; (p. 71)

— Review of Blockbuster! : Fergus Hume and the Mystery of a Hansom Cab Lucy Sussex , 2015 single work biography
1 Newsletters John Arnold , 2014 single work companion entry
— Appears in: A Companion to the Australian Media : N 2014; (p. 305-306)
1 Readers John Arnold , 2014 single work companion entry
— Appears in: A Companion to the Australian Media : R 2014; (p. 401-402)
1 James, John Stanley ('The Vagabond') John Arnold , 2014 single work companion entry
— Appears in: A Companion to the Australian Media : J 2014; (p. 224)
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