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1 2 y separately published work icon The Currency Lad Horatio Spencer Howe Wills (editor), 1832 Milsons Point : W. & F. Pascoe , Z953252 1832 newspaper (11 issues)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Swan River News and Western Australian Chronicle Alexander Andrews (editor), 1844 London : Edward Colyer , 1844-1849 Z1602875 1844 newspaper

'[T]he first object [of The Swan River News and Western Australian Chronicle] is not to secure a large circulation in this Colony, but to gain every publicity for it in England, and elsewhere ... The intention ... is that of dispensing authentic information relating to this long misrepresented Colony, and of correcting the erroneous impressions which are abroad ; and with this purpose, ... issuing the gratuitous copies throughout the provinces of England, the rural districts of Scotland and Ireland, the Channel Islands, America, and India, and hope by this means to promote the emigration of Capitalists, to attract the attention of agriculturists, and to give the British public, from time to time, an unexaggerated statement of the progress and prospects of a Colony of which they have hitherto heard so little.' - Advertisement in The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal (24 August, 1844): 1.

1 y separately published work icon The Guardian : A Weekly Journal of Politics, Commerce, Literature, Science and Arts for the Middle and Working Classes of New South Wales 1844 Sydney : James McEachern , 1844 Z1167141 1844 periodical (24 issues)
1 y separately published work icon [Poems,Prose and Plays] Charles Harpur , Sydney : W. & F. Pascoe , 1977 Z1126563 1977 selected work poetry drama prose Original manuscripts held in the Mitchell Library: Holograph signed. Includes: The Bushrangers : A Play in Five Acts; - Stalwart the Bushranger : A Play in Five Acts; Sorrows of Chatterton;- Kangaroo hunt, or, A Morning in the Mountains .
1 3 y separately published work icon Tegg's Monthly Magazine James Tegg (editor), Sydney : James Tegg , 1836 Z930847 1836 periodical (5 issues)

Published serials, short stories and poetry by colonial authors, along with reviews of books, poetry and theatre. Also included works from English magazines such as the London Weekly Review, Blackwood's Magazine, etc.

The editor's 'Introductory Address' (Vol. 1, No. 1 March, 1836, pp. 1-2) states: 'The want of a Magazine, whose pages should be devoted to general literature, avoiding the stormy arenas of politics and polemics, and combining amusement with instruction, has long been felt and acknowledged. A work of this description seems at the present juncture particularly required. There is evidently a growing taste for reading in the minds of our colonial public; and to foster and supply that taste is the object at which we aim. In following up our plan we shall endeavour, as far as it is practicable, to avoid all invidious distinctions of classes, meting out justice to all. In our dealings with others, we shall invariably make truth our object, and charity our motive; the good of all classes shall find us a warm supporter, and the bad an unsparing censor. A portion of our pages shall be devoted to Original Articles on General Literature; and no pains shall be spared to render this division worthy the support we expect from an indulgent public. A second portion will consist of Extracts selected from the best sources of Periodical Literature, a regular supply of which has been ordered from Britain. The remaining space will be filled with Reviews of New Books - Colonial and British, Literary Notices, the Drama, and other varieties. We trust that in the exercise of our vocation as Critics, we shall ever be found to treat the productions of others with that fairness and candour, which restrains not the freedom of enquiry, nor contracts the limits of just censure. It now only remains for us to entreat from the public its kind indulgence towards our future labours. We shall spare no exertions to provide for our readers useful and agreeable entertainment. We have endeavoured to secure such literary assistance as lay within the compass of our power. And we call on all who feel anxious to remove from the land, whether of their adoption or their birth, the stigma under which it has hitherto laboured, to unite with us in endeavouring to render Australia "Great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea." '

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