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'This article looks at the relatively short and colourful life of Sydney's Cosmos: An Illustrated Australian Magazine—one of the many ephemeral literary magazines that flourished briefly during the colonial era in Australia, and which have been largely forgotten today. From its beginning in September 1894, Cosmos published poetry, short fiction, book reviews, and literary criticism, aiming to offer readers something 'that was purely Australian' as well as providing an important venue for the writings of popular colonial authors such as Louise Mack, Edward Dyson, Ernest Favenc, and many others. This article argues the Cosmos magazine was deeply invested in the development of a distinctively Australian literary culture and that an important focus for accomplishing this was its exploration of metropolitan modes of colonial femininity.'
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Cosmos Magazine and Colonial Femininity
JASAL
Subjects:
- Cosmos Magazine 1894-1899 periodical (53 issues)
- A Yellow Aster 1894 single work novel
- Too Far Everywhere : The Romantic Heroine in Nineteenth-Century Australia 1998 multi chapter work criticism
- A Parcel of Books 1894 single work criticism
- The Romance of a Woman of Thirty 1911 single work novel
- In an Australian City 1895 single work novel
- Settler Romances and the Australian Girl 2004 multi chapter work criticism
- Seven Little Australians 1894 single work children's fiction
- To Try Her Fortune in London : Australian Women, Colonialism and Modernity 2001 single work criticism
- A Bride from the Bush 1890 single work novel
- An Australian Girl 1896 single work short story
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