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Issue Details: First known date: 1954... 1954 The Australian Journal Story Book
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R. G. Campbell compiled this anthology in 1954, hoping to publish a collection of the best short stories he had first published in the pages of the monthly story magazine, the Australian Journal. A letter accompanying the typescript anthology suggests that it was submitted to Beatrice Davis at Angus and Robertson, but the anthology was never published and Davis's response has not survived.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,: 1954 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Early Victorian, J. H. M. Abbott , R. Wenban (illustrator), single work short story historical fiction
Mulligan Taubada, Osmar E. White , single work short story
Collecting the Evidence, Gavin Casey , single work short story humour
Reunion, Margaret Fane , Hilary Lofting , single work short story
The First White Man, 'William Hatfield' , Alex McRae (illustrator), single work short story historical fiction
We'll All Go to See the Sea, Frances J. Moon , single work short story humour
Safe Horizon, Jon Cleary , single work short story war literature
The Sky Stone, Rui Chestor , single work short story
The Night I Poisoned Grandpa, Melva Lester , single work short story
Miss Tarleton, Rex Grayson , single work short story
A Visit to the Dead Heart, Frederick Howard , single work short story
The Main Road, Roy Bridges , single work short story
The King of Lugger Town, Vance Palmer , single work short story
Seven Emus, Xavier Herbert , single work short story
Why Did They Look at Mr. Smith, J.B. Warren , single work
The Book, Robert S. Close , single work short story
Art and Artifice, J. P. McKinney , single work short story

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      Melbourne, Victoria,: 1954 .
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • Unpublished typescript with editor's emendations, held at the University of Queensland Fryer Library. The typescript is accompanied by a covering letter from R. G. Campbell to Miss Beatrice Davis of Angus and Robertson, dated 2 December 1954. A series of Campbell's recollections of his time as editor of the Australian Journal is held in the Louise Campbell Collection (UQFL120, folder 2).

Works about this Work

RG Campbell’s ‘The Australian Journal Story Book’ Roger Osborne , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Fryer Folios , November vol. 11 no. 1 2017; (p. 4-7)

'The Australian Journal (1865–1957) is wellknown to students of Australian literature as a publisher of Australian fiction, including the first version of Marcus Clarke’s celebrated convict novel, For the term of his natural life.  Apart from the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century when it relied heavily on syndicated fiction from overseas, The Australian Journal was consistently a significant publisher of Australian fiction, issuing several thousand stories by some hundreds of Australian writers. Histories of magazines acknowledge the preeminence of the magazine in the 1870s, but then ignore or treat cursorily its next eighty years. However, not only did the journal survive for ninety years, but under the editorship of RG Campbell from 1926 to 1955 it fostered the careers of a range of freelance Australian writers, contributing to their incomes and allowing them to develop their craft.' (Introduction)

RG Campbell’s ‘The Australian Journal Story Book’ Roger Osborne , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Fryer Folios , November vol. 11 no. 1 2017; (p. 4-7)

'The Australian Journal (1865–1957) is wellknown to students of Australian literature as a publisher of Australian fiction, including the first version of Marcus Clarke’s celebrated convict novel, For the term of his natural life.  Apart from the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century when it relied heavily on syndicated fiction from overseas, The Australian Journal was consistently a significant publisher of Australian fiction, issuing several thousand stories by some hundreds of Australian writers. Histories of magazines acknowledge the preeminence of the magazine in the 1870s, but then ignore or treat cursorily its next eighty years. However, not only did the journal survive for ninety years, but under the editorship of RG Campbell from 1926 to 1955 it fostered the careers of a range of freelance Australian writers, contributing to their incomes and allowing them to develop their craft.' (Introduction)

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