Mary Fortune
Articles
- Review of books by Richard D. Jordan and Peter Pierce, Elizabeth Webby, Lucy Sussex, Elizabeth Morrison, and Gillian Whitlock
Reviews of the following volumes:
The Poets' Discovery, edited by Richard D. Jordan and Peter Pierce Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1990.
Colonial Voices: Letters,…
1 October 1990 - ‘I shall tell just such stories as I please’ : Mary Fortune and the Australian Journal
Discusses Mary Fortune's contributions to the Australian Journal, 'a trailblazer for the production of colonial literature'. Focusing on Fortune's essays 'The Tressless Bride' (6…
1 October 2007 - Mary Fortune as Sylphid: ‘blond, and silk, and tulle’
‘…When Lucy Sussex’s own clever detective work revealed that the pseudonyms of W.W. and Waif Wander belonged to Fortune, an exciting chapter in colonial literary…
1 October 2012 - Strange in the Cold Blue Light: Sensation and Science in the Australian Journal
The first weekly instalment of the Australian Journal, published on 2 September 1865, declared its intention to ‘reflect the Literature, Art, and Science of…
31 October 2015