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Issue Details: First known date: 1845... 1845 The Devil and the Editor
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'Lowe despairs after triumph of Gipps - Devil advises assassination - Lowe determines to do it with the pen. Parody of William Forster's 'The Devil and the Governor', Atlas, 17 May 1845.' (WebbY)

Notes

  • Epigraph: Declare. Who is his master! Is he too a slave? / All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil. - P. B. Shelly [sic]
  • At foot of text: 5th July, 1845.

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First known date: 1845
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The Devil and the Governor : A Dramatic Sketch 'Sylvanus' , 1845 single work drama satire
— Appears in: The Atlas , 17 May vol. 1 no. 25 1845; (p. 291-292) The Empire , 16 August 1858; (p. 4) The Penguin Book of Australian Satirical Verse 1986; (p. 39-44) The Poet's Discovery : Nineteenth Century Australia in Verse 1990; (p. 55-59) An Anthology of Australian Poetry to 1920 2007; (p. 229-233)
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Subjects:
  • New South Wales,
  • 1845
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