Mother's Dear Boy (International) assertion single work   single work   poetry   humour   "Hail interesting juvenile !"
This international work is included in AustLit to identify a relationship with Australian literature.
Issue Details: First known date: 1837... 1837 Mother's Dear Boy
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This international comic poem and illustration was probably first published in the English periodical Bells Life In London And Sporting Chronicle in March 1837. It was published with the title 'Mother's Pet', as part of a series 'The Boys' Own Series' under the column heading 'Gallery of Comicalities'.

Notes

  • Epigraph: "Blessins on the deer creetur ! ain't he a love ? The werry picter of his papa ! ..."
  • This international work is included in AustLit because it is published in Australian newspapers and magazines during the colonial era.
  • No author attributed.

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First known date: 1837
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Cornwall Chronicle vol. 4 no. 157 10 February 1838 7951348 1838 newspaper issue 1838 pg. 1s
    Note: illus.
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