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Issue Details: First known date: 1878... 1878 Grandmamma's Verse-Book for Young Australia : Part 1
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Notes

  • Series (Microform): Pre 1890 Australian Children's Books microfiche package. (Adelaide : Libraries Board of S.A., 1994)

Contents

* Contents derived from the London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,:Vincent Brooks, Day and Son , 1891 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Laughing Jackassesi"Three large, gray birds sit up in a tree", Louisa Anne Meredith , single work poetry children's
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,: 1878 .
      Extent: 56p.
      Note/s:
      • Printed for the author by W. Fletcher; and sold by J. Walch & Sons, Hobart Town; Walch Brothers and Birchall, Launceston; and Geo. Robertson, Melbourne and Sydney.
      • Title page : By Mrs Meredith, author of My Home in Towsmania, Some of my Bush Friends in Tasmania, etc etc
      • Dedication: To Louisa, Freda, Glendower, and David Meredith, in whom the following verses first found approving listeners and ready learners, the little book is offered as a Christmas gift, by their loving grandmother. December, 1878.
      • Includes preface discussing the need for children to experience poetry.
      • Pages 53-56 are explanatory notes for some of the poems.
Alternative title: Waratah Rhymes for Young Australia
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Works about this Work

Grandmamma's Verse Book 1879 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 4 January vol. 27 no. 966 1879; (p. 8)
— Review of Grandmamma's Verse-Book for Young Australia : Part 1 Louisa Anne Meredith , 1878 selected work poetry 'Its speciality is, that it has a pure colonial air about it. There is liveliness and a happy cheerful spirit pervading all the little poems, but the spirit smacks of the soil...Some of the poems have appeared in the Sydney Mail and they are among the best in the volume...But their [sic] is a charm about Australian scenery and surroundings which is all they own, and is felt deeply by Australian children and this charm our authoress puts forward with a sweetness that should make her verses like household words to them.'
Grandmamma's Verse Book 1879 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 4 January vol. 27 no. 966 1879; (p. 8)
— Review of Grandmamma's Verse-Book for Young Australia : Part 1 Louisa Anne Meredith , 1878 selected work poetry 'Its speciality is, that it has a pure colonial air about it. There is liveliness and a happy cheerful spirit pervading all the little poems, but the spirit smacks of the soil...Some of the poems have appeared in the Sydney Mail and they are among the best in the volume...But their [sic] is a charm about Australian scenery and surroundings which is all they own, and is felt deeply by Australian children and this charm our authoress puts forward with a sweetness that should make her verses like household words to them.'
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