Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 RG Campbell’s ‘The Australian Journal Story Book’
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'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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  • Epigraph: I hurried along Swanston Street…My business took to me past Little Burke Street…beyond the Melbourne Hospital, the Public Library and La Trobe Street to No. 350, an inconspicuous three-storey brick building housing the printing works of A. H. Massina and Co., and the office of The Australian Journal. From within came the sound of machinery dominated by the rhythmic thud of a heavy flatbed press. Those sounds were to become as familiar to me as the beating of my own heart, for that building was to be my working home for just on thirty years. - RG Campbell ‘An Editor Regrets’

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    y separately published work icon Fryer Folios vol. 11 no. 1 November 2017 12698501 2017 periodical issue

    'In its 90th year the Fryer Library continues to grow as a bountiful resource. From the time of the first volumes on Australian literature collected by Dr Frederick Robinson in memory of John Denis Fryer, the Library’s development has been a labour of love. Over the years, this endeavour has been generously aided by loyal supporters, particularly the wonderful Friends of Fryer who have defended, built and promoted the collection’s value.' (Introduction, Simon Farley : Fryer Librarian)

    2017
    pg. 4-7
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