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Notes
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Much AustLit indexing of The Australasian was completed prior to the newspaper's digitisation. Links from AustLit records to the digitised versions will be added progressively.
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Issues of the Australasian from 4 January 1868 to 29 August 1868 were indexed as part of the Colonial Newspapers and Magazines Project.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Hugh George
, 1864-1946 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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In 1854,
single work
short story
The tale opens on the Clever Gully Diggings where a group of young men are gold-mining. But when one of the men's match boxes falls into the creek, he walks to a nearby house and so begins the retelling of what happened in 1854...
Note:Published on 15 October 1881 (Saturday)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
- y Index to Serials in Australian Periodicals and Newspapers : Nineteenth Century Canberra : Mulini Press , 2001 Z971477 2001 single work index Index to serials in 15 large circulation weekly publications published in Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales between 1860 and 1899. The index also gives an overview of the publishing history of these titles and includes an author/title index.
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'A Careworn Writer for the Press': Henry Kendall in Melbourne
1992
single work
biography
— Appears in: Henry Kendall : The Muse of Australia 1992; (p. 165-205) Investigations in Australian Literature 2000; (p. 47-88) -
The Extended Edwardianism of Australian Literature
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Aspects of Australian Fiction : Essays Presented to John Colmer, Professor Emeritus of English, The University of Adelaide 1990; (p. 53-72) -
Colonial Periodicals: Patterns of Failure
1989
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin , First Quarter vol. 13 no. 1 1989; (p. 1-10) -
Retrieving Colonial Literary Culture: The Case for an Index to Serial Fiction in Australian (or Australasian?) Newspapers
1989
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin , First Quarter vol. 13 no. 1 1989; (p. 27-36) Australian Subject Bibliography After 1988 1990; (p. 35-47)
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'Half Bushman - Half Bookworm' - Furphy, Collins and Literary Culture in Victoria
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Notes & Furphies , April no. 20 1988; (p. 1-2) -
'A Careworn Writer for the Press': Henry Kendall in Melbourne
1992
single work
biography
— Appears in: Henry Kendall : The Muse of Australia 1992; (p. 165-205) Investigations in Australian Literature 2000; (p. 47-88) -
A Lady's Letter from London: 1873-1908
1984
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 11 no. 4 1984; (p. 502-507) -
Personal Reminiscences of Adam Lindsay Gordon
1884
single work
biography
— Appears in: Victorian Review , 1 May vol. 10 no. 55 1884; (p. 66-69) -
Three Old Victorian Magazines
1881
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Melbourne Review , July vol. 6 no. 23 1881; (p. 293-302)
PeriodicalNewspaper Details
Frequency:
Weekly
Range:
No. 1 (1 October 1864) - 31 March 1866 ; New series. v. 1, no. 1 (7 April 1866) - v. 160, no. 5075 (6 April 1946)
Continues:
Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle ; Australasian Sketcher With Pen and Pencil
Continued by:
Australasian Post
Size:
53cm
Note:
Formed by the merger of weekly Argus and Examiner and Melbourne Weekly News and Yeoman and Australian Acclimatiser
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Changed to tabloid format and began new series as of 7 April 1866
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Incorporates Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle as of 11 January 1868
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Incorporates Australasian Sketcher With Pen and Pencil as of 26 December 1889
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Titled Australasian National Illustrated Weekly from 5 June 1937
Has serialised
- The Boy He Was, single work novel
- Petals on the Stream, single work novel
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Jorgenson : King of Adventurers,
single work
biography
'In Ross's Van Diemen's Land Annual for 1835, appears the first part of a 'Shred of Autobiography, containing various anecdotes, personal and historical, connected with these colonies'. This autobiography is anonymous, and was written by a manumitted convict...' (71)
- Up the Murray, single work novel
- Dinah, single work novel
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