y separately published work icon Sydney Punch periodical  
Date: 1875
Date: 1865
Date: 1865-1869
Note: Tenure as editor not yet established.
Issue Details: First known date: 1864-1888... 1864-1888 Sydney Punch
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

Includes 'satirical articles on social and political topics, sketches, short humorous and satirical pieces, humorous and satirical verse, parliamentary reports, theatrical notes, jokes, cartoons...'

Source: Lurline Stuart. Australian Periodicals with Literary Content 1821-1925: An Annotated Bibliography (2003): 124

Notes

  • According to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, William Bede Dalley 'supported financially the Sydney Punch and wrote consistently for it, including a masterly series of satirical political biographies.'

    Source: Bede Nairn and Martha Rutledge, 'Dalley, William Bede (1831-1888)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dalley-william-bede-3356/text5057
    Sighted: 30/04/2013

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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.

A Year in the Life of Victor Daley Frank Molloy , 2000 single work biography
— Appears in: Margin , July-August no. 51 2000; (p. 5-14)
Mad Wags Quixote , 1896 single work column
— Appears in: The Free-Lance , 14 May vol. 1 no. 4 1896; (p. 14)
The Mystical Half-Sheet of Twelves Alba. , 1885 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australasian Printers' Keepsake : A Selection of Tales, Essays, Sketches, and Verse, Illustrative of the Craft in Australia 1885; (p. 79-81)
'Edgar Ray, the originator of a London satirical periodical, Touchstone, takes care to inform all and sundry that he also was the founder of the Australian comic journals. Without inquiring too rigidly concerning his share in founding Sydney Punch, it may be safely affirmed, that without Captain Butler's monetary and Fred. Sinnet's literary aid Melbourne Punch would never have seen light at all. Edgar could never have managed to pilot that humourous venture for any lengthened period, for he had not the capital, commercial or intellectual; but he was adroit and shrewd, and a tactician of no mean order.' (p. 79)

New Books 1868 single work review
— Appears in: The Illustrated Sydney News , 4 September vol. 5 no. 52 1868; (p. 35)

— Review of The Australian Journal 1865 periodical (900 issues); Sydney Punch 1864-1888 periodical (13 issues); Colonial Monthly : An Australian Magazine 1867-1870 periodical (24 issues); The Warden of Galway : A Metrical Tale, in Six Cantos, and Other Poems William Carleton , 1868 selected work poetry

A review of bound volumes of the Australian Journal (vol. 3), Sydney Punch (vol. 8) and the Colonial Monthly (vol. 1), and of William Carleton's poetry collection The Warden of Galway.

New Books 1868 single work review
— Appears in: The Illustrated Sydney News , 4 September vol. 5 no. 52 1868; (p. 35)

— Review of The Australian Journal 1865 periodical (900 issues); Sydney Punch 1864-1888 periodical (13 issues); Colonial Monthly : An Australian Magazine 1867-1870 periodical (24 issues); The Warden of Galway : A Metrical Tale, in Six Cantos, and Other Poems William Carleton , 1868 selected work poetry

A review of bound volumes of the Australian Journal (vol. 3), Sydney Punch (vol. 8) and the Colonial Monthly (vol. 1), and of William Carleton's poetry collection The Warden of Galway.

The Mystical Half-Sheet of Twelves Alba. , 1885 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australasian Printers' Keepsake : A Selection of Tales, Essays, Sketches, and Verse, Illustrative of the Craft in Australia 1885; (p. 79-81)
'Edgar Ray, the originator of a London satirical periodical, Touchstone, takes care to inform all and sundry that he also was the founder of the Australian comic journals. Without inquiring too rigidly concerning his share in founding Sydney Punch, it may be safely affirmed, that without Captain Butler's monetary and Fred. Sinnet's literary aid Melbourne Punch would never have seen light at all. Edgar could never have managed to pilot that humourous venture for any lengthened period, for he had not the capital, commercial or intellectual; but he was adroit and shrewd, and a tactician of no mean order.' (p. 79)

Mad Wags Quixote , 1896 single work column
— Appears in: The Free-Lance , 14 May vol. 1 no. 4 1896; (p. 14)
A Year in the Life of Victor Daley Frank Molloy , 2000 single work biography
— Appears in: Margin , July-August no. 51 2000; (p. 5-14)
Sydney Punch To His Well-Beloved Friends, the Sydney Public 1868 single work advertisement humour
— Appears in: The Illustrated Sydney News , 13 June vol. 4 no. 49 1868; (p. 392)

'Sydney Punch' reminds his friends of all that has been told in his pages and advises that he hopes 'to address many a volume more to you ... in all love and friendship'.

The 'Illustrated Sydney News' and 'Sydney Punch' : London Availability 1868 single work advertisement
— Appears in: The Illustrated Sydney News , 20 April vol. 4 no. 47 1868; (p. 359) The Illustrated Sydney News , 13 June vol. 4 no. 49 1868; (p. 392) The Illustrated Sydney News , 11 July vol. 5 no. 50 1868; (p. 15) The Illustrated Sydney News , 3 October vol. 5 no. 53 1868; (p. 64) The Illustrated Sydney News , 31 October vol. 5 no. 54 1868; (p. 79) The Illustrated Sydney News , 28 November vol. 5 no. 55 1868; (p. 96)

A very short advertisement stating that 'the Illustrated London News and Sydney Punch can always be procured in London from Messers. Gordon & Gotch, News Agents, Strand'.

PeriodicalNewspaper Details

Frequency:
Weekly
Range:
Vol. 1 no. 1 (27 May 1864) - September 1888
Size:
26cm
Price:
Original price: 4d ; later 6d (1866) and 1d (1888)
Graphics:
illus.
Note:
Publication suspended during February 1884 and April 1888
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