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Issue Details: First known date: 1879... 1879 Grandmamma's Verse Book
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'Its speciality is, that it has a pure colonial air about it. There is liveliness and a happy cheerful spirit pervading all the little poems, but the spirit smacks of the soil...Some of the poems have appeared in the Sydney Mail and they are among the best in the volume...But their [sic] is a charm about Australian scenery and surroundings which is all they own, and is felt deeply by Australian children and this charm our authoress puts forward with a sweetness that should make her verses like household words to them.'

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    y separately published work icon The Sydney Mail vol. 27 no. 966 4 January 1879 Z1238832 1879 newspaper issue 1879 pg. 8
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