y separately published work icon Melbourne Punch periodical  
Alternative title: Punch (Melbourne); New Punch
Date: 1870
Date: 1866-
Date: 1863-1866
Date: 1857-1863
Date: 1855-1857
Issue Details: First known date: 1855... 1855 Melbourne Punch
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

Melbourne Punch was an illustrated magazine founded by Edgar Ray and Frederick Sinnett in 1855. Modelled closely on London's Punch, which had been founded fifteen years earlier, the magazine was known simply as Punch from 1900 onwards.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1855

Works about this Work

The Satirical Press of Colonial Australia : A Migrant and Minority Enterprise Richard Scully , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Transnational Voices of Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press 2020; (p. 19-36)

'This chapter re-assesses the colonial Australian versions of the London Punch, making a case for their importance as essentially migrant and minority publications. Founded as a means of maintaining a sense of Britishness, and as a direct link to the culture of Metropolitan London, these magazines were staffed overwhelmingly by migrants (from Britain and elsewhere), directed to a predominantly migrant readership, and filled their pages with migration-themed jokes, cartoons, and pieces of doggerel. The everyday worries of a stranger in a strange land could be soothed by reference to the humour of the local satirical magazine, and a sense of shared community built through regular recourse to the pages of Melbourne Punch, Sydney Punch, Tasmanian Punch, Ballarat Punch, Adelaide Punch, Queensland Punch, or even Ipswich Punch.'

Source: Abstract.

Colonial Networks and the Periodical Marketplace Mary L. Shannon , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain 2017; (p. 203-223)
Alice in Oz - Please, Ma'am, is This New Zealand? Or Australia? : The Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland Books in Australia Michael Organ , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes and Queries , September 2013; (p. 71-86)
Reading in Colonial Australia : The 2011 John Alexander Ferguson Memorial Lecture Elizabeth Webby , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society , December vol. 97 no. 2 2011; (p. 119-135)
Elizabeth Webby looks at reading in the first decades after settlement in Australia as well as 'worries about the reading of fiction, reading of newspapers and periodicals, and the practice of reading aloud.' (p. 120)
Colonial Satire Jill Blee , Rex Bridges , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Ballarat Punch at the Mechanics' , no. 1 2007; (p. 9-13)
y separately published work icon The Loaded Line : Australian Political Caricature 1788-1901 Marguerite Mahood , Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1973 Z1175979 1973 single work criticism
Origin of 'Melbourne Punch' James Smith , 1907 single work essay
— Appears in: Punch Jubilee , 27 August 1907; (p. 7-8)
The Development of Punch Edmund Finn , 1907 single work essay
— Appears in: Punch Jubilee , 27 August 1907; (p. 10-11)
The Roaring Days of Victorian Politics : The Progress of 'Punch' Edward Dyson , 1907 single work essay
— Appears in: Punch Jubilee , 27 August 1907; (p. 12-13)
An Appreciation of 'Punch' 1907 single work essay
— Appears in: Punch Jubilee , 27 August 1907; (p. 15-16)

PeriodicalNewspaper Details

Frequency:
Weekly with annual cumulation
Range:

Vol. 1 no. 1 (2 August 1855) - vol. 92 no. 2336 (3 May 1900)

New Series v. 92 no. 2337 (10 May 1900) - vol. 133 no. 3394 (19 August 1920) under title Punch [Melbourne, Vic.]

Vol. 133 no. 3395 (26 August 1920) - 3 November 1921 under title New Punch

10 November 1921 - new series, vol. 1 no. 52 (10 December 1925) under title Punch [Melbourne, Vic.]

Mergers:
Incorporated into Table Talk
Size:
Folio ; initially 8 pages, 12 pages by 1878, and 28 pages by 1891
Price:
6d
Graphics:
illus.
Note:
Monthly cumulations from March 1869 to February 1870

Has serialised

Free Selection : A Romance of a State School, series - publisher short story
The Portable Building, series - publisher short story
Tommy Minogue, Edward Dyson , single work novel humour
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