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Issue Details: First known date: 1898... 1898 Bush Fancies and Campfire Yarns
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Notes

  • BAL author stated as: Walter Dollman, Jun
  • Epigraph:

    'I wish this feeble hand of mine

    Could so employ my pen

    That I might write some humble line

    To cheer my fellow men.'

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Adelaide, South Australia,: A. & E. Lewis , 1898 .
      Extent: 78p.
      Note/s:
      • Includes preface by Rev. W.G. Marsh, St. Luke's, May 1898

Works about this Work

‘Raising high its thousand forked tongues’ : Campfires, Bushfires, and Portable Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century Australia Grace Moore , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century , no. 26 2018;

'This article explores the significance of the campfire to Australian settler culture in the nineteenth century. Considering the paradox that campfires could be both comforting and evoke terror, the piece considers how they provided a link between the northern and southern hemispheres. Drawing on a range of primary materials — many of which have been forgotten — the article addresses the thin boundary between warmth and tragedy that came to be associated with campfires. Furthermore, it examines connections between fire and the emergence of an Australian settler identity, along with the bush dweller’s role in changing the face of the wilderness and its fire ecology.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

The Emotions Behind the Campfire Grace Moore , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: Histories of Emotion from Medieval Europe to Contemporary Australia , October 2013;
‘Raising high its thousand forked tongues’ : Campfires, Bushfires, and Portable Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century Australia Grace Moore , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century , no. 26 2018;

'This article explores the significance of the campfire to Australian settler culture in the nineteenth century. Considering the paradox that campfires could be both comforting and evoke terror, the piece considers how they provided a link between the northern and southern hemispheres. Drawing on a range of primary materials — many of which have been forgotten — the article addresses the thin boundary between warmth and tragedy that came to be associated with campfires. Furthermore, it examines connections between fire and the emergence of an Australian settler identity, along with the bush dweller’s role in changing the face of the wilderness and its fire ecology.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

The Emotions Behind the Campfire Grace Moore , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: Histories of Emotion from Medieval Europe to Contemporary Australia , October 2013;
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