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Issue Details:
First known date:
1839...
vol.
7
no.
340
13 July
1839
of
The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal
est. 1833
Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal
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Notes
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.
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Other material in this issue includes: A review, 'Amateur Theatricals' of the 'first theatrical representation in this colony ... Perth on Tuesday evening last, [9 July, 1839] before a crowded audience-principally the friends of the gentlemen and ladies who favored us with this amusing novelty. The place selected for the performance was Leeder's large room...' The play performed was Love a la Militaire (1834). The program was printed 'on stone-coloured silk by Charles Macfaull at the Perth Gazette office'. (Source: Treasures of the Battye Library exhibition catalogue record.) Letters and columns for and against theatrical performance in the Colony were published in subsequent issues of the Gazette.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1839 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- The Death of the Egyptian's First-Borni"Night's sablest mantle hung deeply around,", single work poetry (p. 112)
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