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The Imprisonment of the Member single work   poetry   "Not a cheer was heard, not a popular shout,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1851... 1851 The Imprisonment of the Member
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Notes

  • Author's note: 'After Wolfe'.
  • A poem on John Dunmore Lang, who, in April 1851, was imprisoned for four months on two charges of malicious libel. The charges related to two articles which Lang had published in the newspaper the Press, in which he attacked members of the New South Wales Legislative Council who had voted to censure him. In the articles Lang was deemed to have defamed New South Wales M.L.C. Thomas Icely.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Empire 29 April 1851 Z1711803 1851 newspaper issue 1851 pg. 375
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Argus 14 May 1851 Z1711808 1851 newspaper issue 1851 pg. 4
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