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Published anonymously ("by the author of Scripopolis").
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Mysteries Across the World : Donald Cameron's The Mysteries of Melbourne Life
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Mysteries of the Cities: Urban Crime Fiction in the Nineteenth Century 2012; (p. 182-204) - y Sensational Melbourne : Reading, Sensation Fiction and 'Lady Audley's Secret' in the Victorian Metropolis North Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2011 Z1802540 2011 single work criticism 'Colonial Melbournians were mad about Sensation fiction - full of thrills and scandal; divorce, bigamy, mistaken identity and murder. Sensational Melbourne takes us through the libraries, the shops, the tramways, the theatres, the back lanes and the drawing rooms of Marvelous Melbourne, and shows how the city was built on words as much as gold. It traces the passage of the most popular novel of the nineteenth century, Lady Audley's Secret, from England to Melbourne's port and through the cultural byways of Melbourne out through the suburbs, and into Australian literature.' -- Back cover.
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More on Donald Cameron
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Margin , November no. 76 2008; (p. 10-12)
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More on Donald Cameron
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Margin , November no. 76 2008; (p. 10-12) - y Sensational Melbourne : Reading, Sensation Fiction and 'Lady Audley's Secret' in the Victorian Metropolis North Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2011 Z1802540 2011 single work criticism 'Colonial Melbournians were mad about Sensation fiction - full of thrills and scandal; divorce, bigamy, mistaken identity and murder. Sensational Melbourne takes us through the libraries, the shops, the tramways, the theatres, the back lanes and the drawing rooms of Marvelous Melbourne, and shows how the city was built on words as much as gold. It traces the passage of the most popular novel of the nineteenth century, Lady Audley's Secret, from England to Melbourne's port and through the cultural byways of Melbourne out through the suburbs, and into Australian literature.' -- Back cover.
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Mysteries Across the World : Donald Cameron's The Mysteries of Melbourne Life
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Mysteries of the Cities: Urban Crime Fiction in the Nineteenth Century 2012; (p. 182-204)
Last amended 22 Jan 2009 14:19:46
Settings:
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- 1870s
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