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Martyn Lyons Martyn Lyons i(A8872 works by) (a.k.a. Martyn Andrew Lyons)
Born: Established: 1946
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Male
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1 4 y separately published work icon Dear Prime Minister : Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949-1966 Martyn Lyons , Kensington : University of New South Wales Press , 2021 23069482 2021 selected work correspondence

‘I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean’, wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance.

'Robert Menzies received 22,000 letters during his record-breaking 1949-1966 second term as Australian Prime Minister. From war veterans, widows and political leaders to school students and homespun philosophers. Ordinary citizens sent their congratulations and grievances and commented on speeches they had heard on radio. They lectured him, quoted Shakespeare and the Bible at him and sent advice on how to eliminate the rabbit problem. In Dear Prime Minister, Menzies’ fabled ‘Forgotten People’ write back. 

'Revealed here for the first time, the letters respond to the royal visit of 1954, Communism, Australia’s British connection and the dire poverty of aged pensioners. For many writers, these were not post-war boom years, but a time of anxiety and conflict, punctuated by fears of war, another Great Depression, or a nuclear Armageddon. Dear Prime Minister is a fascinating insight into the concerns, assumptions and political beliefs of 1950s and 1960s Australians.'

Source : publisher's blurb
1 Literary Anniversaries : Commemorating Skakespeare and Others, 1900-1940 Martyn Lyons , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: A History of the Book in Australia, 1891-1945 : A National Culture in a Colonised Market 2001; (p. 389-400)
1 Britain's Largest Export Market Martyn Lyons , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: A History of the Book in Australia, 1891-1945 : A National Culture in a Colonised Market 2001; (p. 19-26)
1 15 y separately published work icon A History of the Book in Australia, 1891-1945 : A National Culture in a Colonised Market Martyn Lyons (editor), John Arnold (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2001 Z921361 2001 anthology criticism (taught in 1 units) The first of a series of studies of Australian book production and consumption. The work is organised into four sections: 'Publishing and Printing', 'Bookshops and Libraries' (including histories of small and specialised libraries), 'Genres and Their Place in the Market' and 'Reading' (including accounts of reading groups and societies). Within each grouping are chapters on related subjects, in some cases accompanied by illustrative case studies.
1 Reading Practices, Writing Practices: Love Letter and Ecritures Intimes in Nineteenth-Century France and Australia Martyn Lyons , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Culture of the Book : Essays from Two Hemispheres in Honour of Wallace Kirsop 1999; (p. 356-365)
1 Bush Readers, Factory Readers, Home Readers - Expanding the Australian Reading Public c. 1890-1930 Martyn Lyons , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Publishing Studies , Spring no. 5 1997; (p. 17-23)

Martyn Lyons considers the attempts to 'extend and to integrate the Australian reading public' through adult education, the development of factory and workplace libraries, and voluntary schemes to bring books to isolated areas. He discusses these attempts with reference to the Australasian Home Reading Union, the New South Wales Railway and Tramway Institute Library, and the Bush Book Club of New South Wales.
1 Untitled Martyn Lyons , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin , Third Quarter vol. 20 no. 3 1996; (p. 226-227)
— Review of Books for Colonial Readers -- The Nineteenth-Century Australian Experience Wallace Kirsop , 1995 selected work criticism
1 8 y separately published work icon Australian Readers Remember : An Oral History of Reading 1890-1930 Martyn Lyons , Lucy Taksa , South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1992 Z206153 1992 single work criticism
1 1 y separately published work icon Books, Readers, Reading David Robert Walker (editor), Julia Horne (editor), Martyn Lyons (editor), Geelong : Deakin University Press , 1992 Z375691 1992 anthology prose criticism
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