Melbourne

Between 1873and her death in 1908, Mrs Frances Cashel Hoey, wife of the secretary to the Victorian agent-general in London, regularly contributed 'A Lady's Letter…

Wearne discusses his approach to poetry, the relationship between suburbia and poetry, and the process of characterisation.

Discusses 'sympathetic' representations of suburbia in Australian non-fiction and American fiction, arguing that these works offer guides for augmenting the anti-suburban tradition in Australia, which…

‘Lynch’s exploration of nineteenth-century Australian burlesque argues that while colonial Australia participated in a larger irreverent, comic culture of popular medievalism, its apparent irreverence toward…

IN the 1870's came the first group of histories and would-be histories of the colony of Victoria. Although there were only five decades of European…

This essay examines the three Yarra River stories in Tony Birch’s short fiction collections. ‘The Sea of Tranquillity’ ‘The Chocolate Empire’ and ‘The Toecutters’ all…

Lisa Lang’s award-winning Australian novel Utopian Man (2010) reimagines E.W. Cole and his famous Book Arcade in Melbourne in the last decades of the nineteenth…