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J. F. ARCHIBALD (A.K.A. JULES FRANÇOIS ARCHIBALD)
Selected Articles:
- “The Wantabadgery Bushrangers” The Bulletin, 31 January,1880.
- “The Blackfellow Executed”, Evening News 10 June,1879.
Bibliography:
- Lawson Sylvia (2006) The Archibald Paradox, Melbourne University Publishing (MUP), Melbourne.
THEODORE EMILE ARGLES (A.K.A. HAROLD GREY)
Selected Articles:
- “Poverty Point”, Scenes in Sydney by Day and Night, 1878.
- “Aspasia and Co”, Scenes in Sydney by Day and Night, 1878.
- “A Heavy Wet“, The Bulletin, January 31, 1880 (unconfirmed).
- “Vortex of Vice”, Scenes in Sydney by Day and Night, 1878.
Bibliography:
- “Death of ‘The Pilgrim‘”, Freeman’s Journal 16 October, 1886.
- Lawson, Sylvia (2006) The Archibald Paradox, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne
- Wantrup, Jonathon (2012) Catalogue 50: No.16 The Pilgrim Series 1877 -1879, New Century Antiquarian Books.
- “Harold Gray (sic), alias The Pilgrim, in Trouble Again” The Newcastle Morning Herald and Miner’s Advocate, 24 Jan, 1879.
LOUISA ATKINSON (A.K.A. CAROLINE CALVERT)
Selected Articles
- “A Voice from the Country – November”, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 December,1859
- “A Voice from the Country – December”, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 January,1860
- “A Voice from the Country – January”, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 March,1860
Bibliography
- Clarke, Patricia (1988) Pen Portraits: Women Writers and Journalists in Nineteenth Century Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
RANDOLPH BEDFORD (A.K.A. GEORGE RANDOLPH BEDFORD)
Selected Articles:
- The Retail Brand of Gentleman“, The Bulletin, 30 September,1893.
- “The Ringwood Mystery Close of the Inquest”, Age, 12 Sept, 1889.
- “Explorations of Civilisation“, The Bulletin, 11 October, 1902.
- “Explorations of Civilisation“, The Bulletin, July 2, 1903.
Bibliography:
- Bedford, Randolph (1944 / 1976), Nought to Thirty-Three, Currawong Publishing Company, Melbourne.
ADA CAMBRIDGE (A.K.A. ADA CAMBRIDGE CROSS)
Selected Writing:
- Thirty Years in Australia, (1903) Methuen, London.
JENNINGS CARMICHAEL (A.K.A. GRACE ELIZABETH JENNINGS CARMICHAEL; MRS FRANCIS MULLIS; GRACE JENNINGS CARMICHAEL)
Collected Journalism
- Carmichael, Jennings (1891) Hospital Children, Sketches of Life and Character in the Children’s Hospital Melbourne, George Robertson, Melbourne.
Bibliography
- Clarke, Patricia (1988) Pen Portraits: Women Writers and Journalists in Nineteenth Century Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney/New York.
- Grace Jennings Carmichael – Poem by Henry Lawson.
- Thomson, C H, “Jennings Carmichael: Her Children in a Workhouse”, Argus, 16 April, 1910.
THOMAS CARRINGTON (A.K.A. CARRINGTON, T; FRANCIS THOMAS DEAN CARRINGTON; TOM CARRINGTON)
Selected Article:
- Carrington, T. (1880, July 3) “Catching the Kellys: a personal narrative of one who went in the special train” , Australasian, p.189.
Bibliography:
- Jones, I, (ed) (2003) Ned Kelly, The Last Stand, Written and Illustrated by an Eyewitness, Lothian: South Melbourne.
ELLEN CLACY (A.K.A. MRS CHARLES CLACY)
Selected Writing:
- A Lady’s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53: Written on the Spot, Hurst and Blackett, London, 1853.
Bibliography:
- Thompson, Patricia (ed) (1963) A Lady’s Visit to the Gold Diggings in 1852-1853, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne.
MARCUS CLARKE (A.K.A. MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP CLARKE)
Selected Articles
- “Austin Friars”, Australian Monthly Magazine, May 1866, Vol 11 No 9 – Memoir/reminiscences written under the pseudonym of Mark Scrivener.
- “Melbourne Streets at Midnight“, Argus, 28 February,1868.
- “A Pawnbroker’s Shop on a Saturday Night”, Argus, 6 March,1868.
- “The Melbourne Spring Meeting”, Argus, 4 November,1867.
Bibliography:
- Wilding, Michael (Ed) (1988) Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Short Stories, Critical Essays and Journalism, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.
- Hergenban, L.T (Ed) (1972) Colonial City, Selected Journalism of Marcus Clarke, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.
DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY (A.K.A. DAVID CHRISTIE-MURRAY)
Selected Articles:
- The Great Racing Carnival, the Age, November 6, 1889.
- Over the Blue Mountains, the Age October 18, 1889.
Bibliography:
- “David Christie Murray”, Oxford Reference Online.
MATTHEW FLINDERS
Selected Writing:
- Flinders, M, (2000) Terra Australis, Tim Flannery (introduction), Text Publishing, Melbourne.
MARY GAUNT (A.K.A. MARY MILLER)
Selected Articles:
- “Life on board the training ship Worcester by the Captain of the Maintop Starboard”, Argus, 15 Feb, 1888.
- “Shakings” by the Captain of the Maintop Starboard, Argus 28 July 1888.
- “A Butter Factory”, Argus 3 February 1894.
- “The Other Half: in the slums with the District Nurses”, Argus 23 September,1893.
Bibliography:
- Hickman Bronwen (2014), Mary Gaunt Independent Colonial Woman, Melbourne Books, Australia.
- Morris Edward Ellis (ed) (1895), Cassell’s Picturesque Australasia, Cassell & Co, London.
ALICE HENRY
Selected Articles:
- “Brightening the Dull”, Argus, 27 May,1899.
- “A Children’s Court of Justice”, Argus, 12 September,1903.
Bibliography:
- Clarke, Patricia, (1988) Pen Portraits: Women Writers and Journalists in Nineteenth Century Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
JOHN STANLEY JAMES (A.K.A. JULIAN THOMAS; A.K.A. VAGABOND)
Selected Articles:
- “A Night in the Model Lodging House”, Argus, 15 April, 1876
- “A Day in the Immigrants’ Home”, Argus, 29 April, 1876
- “A Morning at the Hospital”, Argus, 13 May 1876
- “The Outcasts of Melbourne”, Part 1, Gippsland Times, 23 May 1876. Part 2, Gippsland Times, 27 May 1876 (Syndicated to the Argus (Melbourne), Saturday, 27 May, 1876 and The Mail (South Australia), Saturday, 6 November, 1876
- “Manly Sports”, Argus, 30 September, 1876
- “Hospital Funerals”, Argus, 23 December ,1876. (Published as “Pauper Funerals” in his 5-volume book The Vagabond Papers: Sketches of Melbourne Life in Light and Shade, (1877), G. Robertson, Melbourne
- “A Month in Pentridge” – an 8-part series that ran in the Argus on the following dates:
- No. 1, 24 February, 1877; No. II, 3 March, 1877; No. III, 10 March, 1877; No. IV, 17 March, 1877; No. V, 7 April, 1877; No. VI, 14 April, 1877; No. VII, 28 April, 1877; No. VIII, 23 June, 1877.
Obituaries:
- “Death of Well-known Journalist”, Obituary, Argus, 5 September,1896.
- “Obituary”, Zeehan and Dundas Herald (TAS), 7 September,1896.
- A.V.G, “In Memoriam: Julian Thomas, ‘The Vagabond'” The Bulletin, Vol. 17 No. 865,12 September ,1896 periodical issue pg. 9 (poem)
W.J. LAMBIE
- “New South Wales Troops in the Soudan”, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 June 1885.
Bibliography:
- Dapin Mark (ed) (2011) The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing, Penguin/Viking, Melbourne.
HENRY LAWSON
Selected Articles:
- “Albany before the Boom”, Australian Star 30 September 1899.
- “In A Wet Season” The Bulletin, 2 December,1893.
- “In A Dry Season” While the Billy Boils, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, Australia 1896.
- “Coming Across, A Study in Steerage” The New Zealand Mail serialised 18 and 29 December,1893.
- “Some Reflections on a Voyage across Cook’s Straits” (N.Z.) [Across the Straits] Worker, 12 January 1895.
- “A Stroll to The Strand”, The Bulletin, 19 November 1903.
JOSEPH DALGARNO MELVIN (A.K.A. JOE MELVIN)
Selected Articles:
- The Destruction of the Kelly Gang, Argus, July 8 1880
The series of 13 articles Melvin wrote for the Argus on “The Kanaka Labour Traffic” appeared as the following:
- “A Representative on a Recruiting Schooner”, 3 December,1892.
- “Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; Natives Homeward Bound; The Voyage to the Solomon Islands”, 5 December,1892.
- “Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; Reception of Returned Labourers by their Tribes; The First Attempt to Recruit”, 6 December,1892.
- “Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; The Natives Shy; Inspection by a Warship”, 7 December,1892.
- “Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; The Safeguards Against Deception; First Recruits” 8 December,1892.
- “Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; Operations in Port Adam; Additional Recruits Obtained; Refusal of Recruits”, 9 December,1892.
- “Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; Death of a ‘Return’; A Large Number of Recruits Obtained”, 10 December,1892.
- “Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; Re-engagement of Former Labourers; Two Women Accepted; Death of a Recruit”, 12 December 12, 1892.
- “Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; The Last of the ‘Returns’ Landed; Brisk Recruiting”, 15 December,1892.
- “Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; Competition Between Labour Ships; Re-Victualling Necessary”, 16 December,1892.
- “Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; In Missionary Precincts, Large Accession of Recruits”, 17 December,1892.
- “Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; A Full Ship; The Nineteenth ‘Boy’ Obtained”, 19 December,1892.
- “Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; Return to Bundaberg; Safe Landing of the Boys”, 20 December,1892.
- “Our Representative on a Recruiting Schooner; Concluding Comments; Stringency of the Regulations; The Cost of a Kanaka”, 22 December,1892.
Bibliography:
- Corris, P (ed) (1977) The Cruise of the Helena, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne.
LOUISA ANNE MEREDITH (A.K.A. LOUISA A. MEREDITH; L. A. MEREDITH; MRS CHARLES MEREDITH)
Selected Writing:
- Notes and Sketches of New South Wales: During a Residence in that Colony from 1839 to 1844 (1844), J Murray, London.
- My Home in Tasmania, during a residence of nine years (1852), J Murray, London.
- Over the Straits: A Visit to Victoria (1861), Chapman & Hall, London.
- Tasmanian Friends and Foes, Feathered, Furred and Finned: A Family Chronicle of Country Life, Natural History and Veritable Adventure (1880), J Walch & Sons, Hobart.
Bibliography:
- Rae-Ellis, Vivienne (1979) Louisa Anne Meredith: A Tiger in Exile, Blubber Head Press, Hobart, Tasmania.
THOMAS LIVINGSTONE MITCHELL (A.K.A. THOMAS MITCHELL; THOMAS LIVINGSTON MITCHELL; SIR THOMAS LIVINGSTON MITCHELL; THOMAS L. MITCHELL; T. L. MITCHELL)
Selected Writing:
- Three Expeditions Into The Interior of Eastern Australia; with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix and of the present colony of New South Wales, volume 1, (1838) T & W Boone Publishers, London.
- Three Expeditions Into The Interior of Eastern Australia; with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix and of the present colony of New South Wales, volume 2 (1838) T & W Boone Publishers, London.
JOHN MORGAN
Selected Writing:
- ‘Swan River’, Courier, 11 November 1858.
- The Life and Adventures of William Buckley: Thirty-twoYears a Wanderer Amongst the Aborigines of the then Unexplored Country round Port Phillip, Now the Province of Victoria (1852) A Macdougall, Hobart, Tasmania.
GODFREY CHARLES MUNDY
- Pen and Pencil Sketches, Being the Journal of a Tour in India (1832), John Murray, London.
- Our Antipodes: or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies: with a Glimpse of the Gold Fields (1855), R Bentley, London.
- A Record of Observations in Van Diemen’s Land (1900), Sullivan’s Cove, Adelaide.
A. B. PATERSON (A.K.A. ANDREW BARTON PATERSON; BANJO PATERSON; A.B., ('BANJO') PATERSON; A.B., ('BANJO') PATTERSON)Collections:
- Collected Prose by A B “Banjo” Paterson, Project Gutenberg. e-book.
- Off Down the Track: Racing and Other Yarns, Campbell, R and Harvie, P (ed’s), Angus & Robertson, North Ryde, 1986.
- From the Front: A. B. (Banjo) Paterson’s Dispatches from the Boer War, Droogleever, R.W.F (ed), Pan Macmillan: Sydney, 2002.
- A number of Paterson’s non-fiction stories, particularly concerning his favourite sport, horse racing, can be found in Haynes, J (ed) (2013) The Best Australian Yarns and Other True Stories, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
Selected Articles:
Town and Country:
- “How Wild Horses are Yarded”, circa 1890. (Project Gutenberg).
- “Victor Second”, The Bulletin, 31 October,1891. (Project Gutenberg).
- “Buffalo Shooting in Australia”, Sydney Mail, 7 January,1899 (Project Gutenberg).
- “Concerning a Dog Fight”, The Bulletin, 18 May 1895 (Project Gutenberg).
- “Bush Justice”, Australasian Pastoralists’ Review, 15 June 1899 (Project Gutenberg).
Boer War Reporting:
- “Life on Board the SS Kent,” Sydney Morning Herald, Friday, 29 December,1899, p7.
- “At the Front, Bloemfontein, March 25,” Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 12 May,1900, p.10.
- “In a Tight Place, Pretoria, June 5,” Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday 8 August,1900, p.4.
THOMAS REVEL JOHNSON
Selected Articles:
- The Councillor Hauled Over the Coals or Special Pleading by a Publican, Satirist and Sporting Chronicle, 4 February,1843
- The King, Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, 4 January,1845
Obituary:
- “The Late Mr Thomas Revel Johnson”, Bell’s Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle, 1 August,1863.
RICHARD ROWE (A.K.A. RICHARD ROE; A.K.A. 'PETER POSSUM')
Selected Articles
- “Country comments on passing events”, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 November,1857 – (an essay about the Sydney suburb of Balmain and cricket).
- “A Trip up the Hunter: How I started for Muswellbrook and only got to Maitland’, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 January 1856.
- “A Trip up the Hunter: Pocketed At Last”, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 February, 1856.
- “Country comments on passing events”, 9 March,1857, Sydney Morning Herald, (an account of coach travel in Sydney).
‘A Trip Up The Hunter’ comprises chapters 1 and 2 of Rowe’s anthology, Peter ‘Possum’s Portfolio (1858), JR Clarke, Sydney.
Obituary:
- “Death of Peter Possum”, Obituary, Queenslander, 14 February 1880.
HENRY SAVERY (A.K.A. SIMON STUKELEY)
Selected Articles:
- “The Hermit – in Van Diemen’s Land, No.2” Colonial Times, Friday 12 June 1829.
- “The Hermit – in Van Diemen’s Land,27“, Colonial Times, 4 December 1829.
- “The Hermit – in Van Diemen’s Land, No.30”, Colonial Times, Friday 25 December 1829.
Bibliography:
- Savery, Henry (1964) The Hermit in Van Diemen’s Land, (edited and biographical introduction by Hadgraft, Cecil, with notes on the persons by Roe, Margriet) St Lucia: University of Queensland Press.
CHARLES STURT
Selected Writing:
- Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, (1833), (Project Gutenberg).
- “New Holland: Extracts from Sturt’s Expeditions in Southern Australia”, Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal, 7June, 1834.
- “Report of an Expedition to Lake Alexandria and the Murray”, Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal, 28 March 1840.
- “Sturt’s Central Australian Exploring Expedition”, South Australian Register, 9 November 1844.
- “Captain Sturt’s Expedition”, Morning Chronicle, 11 December,1844.
- “Captain Sturt’s Expedition”, The Australian, 17 December,1844.
- Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia (1849), (Project Gutenberg).
ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND
Selected Articles:
- “Neglected Children”, part 1, Argus, 10 May,1887.
- “Neglected Children”, part 2, Argus, 17 May,1887.
WATKIN TENCH
Selected Writing:
- A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay (1979), J Debrett, Picadilly, London.
- A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson in New South Wales.(1793) London, Sold by G. Nicol and J. Sewell, 1793.
A 4-page extract of his second book was published in the Perth Gazette and Western Australia Journal on September 3, 1836.
THOMAS WATLING
Collected Letters:
- Letters from an Exile at Botany-Bay, to His Aunt in Dumfries: Giving a Particular Account of the Settlement of New South Wales, with the Customs and Manners of the Inhabitants (c.1794) Ann Bell, Scotland.
HOWARD WILLOUGHBY
Representative articles:
- “Men and Scenes in New Zealand I, Argus, 9 May,1864.
- “Men and scenes in New Zealand II, Argus, 12 May,1864.
- “The Convict System in Western Australia I”, Argus, 18 June,1864.
- “The Convict System in Western Australia II”, Argus, 20 June,1864.
- “The Convict System in Western Australia III”, Argus, 21 June,1864.
- “The Convict System in Western Australia IV”, Argus, 22 June,1864.
- “The Convict System in Western Australia V”, Argus, 23 June,1864.
- “The Convict System in Western Australia VI”, Argus, 24 June,1864.
- “The Convict System in Western Australia”, Letters, Argus, 25 June,1864.
These articles were republished as a pamphlet by Harrison in London in 1865 titled: Transportation: The British Convict in Western Australia.
Obituary:
FREDERICK SYDNEY WILSON (A.K.A. F. S. WILSON; F. WILSON)
Selected Articles:
- ‘Once Round the Clock, In Our Quiet Street‘, Colonial Monthly, December,1868.
- “How We Inaugurated the Prince Consort’s Statue” (1866) Australian Journal, 19 May, Vol. 1, No. 38, pp. 601-603
- “In Lodgings” (1867) Australian Journal, 13 April, Vol. 2, No. 85, pp. 522-525.
- The Circular Quay, Sydney Cove (1867) Australian Journal, 20 April, Vol. 2. No. 86, pp.537-539.
- “Saturday Night in Sydney” (1867) Australian Journal, 25 May, Vol. 2, No. 91, 1867, pp.615-616.
- A Day at the Central Police Court (1867) Australian Journal, 13 July, Vol. 2, No. 98, pp.732-734.
Travel Writing:
- “A Bit of Glass” (1868) Australian Journal, 29 February, Vol. 3, No. 131, pp. 429-430.
- “Among the Mountains” (1868) Australian Journal, 13 June, Vol. 3, No. 146, pp. 662-663.
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