Literary associations
Articles
- ‘Those Ungodly Pressmen’: The Early Years of the Brisbane Johnsonian Club
The Literary Club founded by Dr Samuel Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds in London in 1764 has been a model to successive Johnsonian clubs in…
1 May 2003 - Society of Women Writers 1925-1935
The article studies the first decade of the Society of Women Writers (est. 1925), thus providing an insight into the cultural and social milieu of…
1 May 2004 - Much Ado about Everything: The Melbourne Shakespeare Society 1884-1904
Tells the story of the Melbourne Shakespeare Society 1884-1904 and perfomances of the Bard by the city worthies.
1 May 2000 - Not Reading the Nation: Australian Readers of the 1890s
The article explores the tastes and values of late-nineteenth-century reading groups and societies in Hobart, Sydney and Adelaide, and of their interest (or lack thereof)…
1 May 2006 - Judith Wright and Frank Scott: Gendering Modernist Networks in Australia and Canada
Lang compares the early careers of Judith Wright and Canadian poet F. R. Scott, paying particular attention to their relationship with modernism and little magazines…
1 October 2006 - In the Club: Australian Crime Fiction in the USA 1943-1954
Carol Hetherington investigates the inclusion of Australian authors in Doubleday’s Crime Club lists in the period 1943-1954. She argues ‘that the important common factor in…
1 October 2012