Australian legends: Representations of the bush, 1813-1913

Australian Historical Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 115, 2000, Pages 201-221

  Waterhouse, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 31844436879     PISSN: 1031461X     EISSN: 19405049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10314610008596127     Document Type: Article

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2. John Hirst, The Pioneer Legend', Historical Studies 18, no. 71 (October 1978): 316-37
3. Graeme Davison, 'Sydney and the Bush: An Urban Context for the Australian Legend', Historical Studies 18, no. 71 (October 1978): 191-209
4. For a summary account of this literature, see Robert Dixon, 'Public and Private Voices: Non-Fictional Prose', in The Penguin New Literary History of Australia, ed. Laurie Hergenhan, (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1988), 126-38. For a brilliant study of one particular form of this literature
5. see David Goodman, Gold Seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850s (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994)
6. Gerald Walsh, Pioneering Days: People and Innovations in Australia's Rural Past (Sydney. Allen & Unwin, 1993), 249-62
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8. John Rickard, 'Alfred Dampier: An Actor Manager in the "Land of Romance" ', Komos 3 (March 1973): 44-57
9. Philip Parsons, ed., A Companion to Theatre in Australia (Sydney: Currency Press, 1995). For Bert Bailey, see 78
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15. Margaret Williams, Australia on the Popular Stage, 1829-1929: An Historical Entertainment in Six Acts (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1983), 125-7, 161, 167-8
16. Carl Lumholtz, Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Year's Travels in Australia and of Camp Life with the Aborigines of Queensland (London: John Murray, 1889), 45
17. Andrew Crombie, After Sixty Years or Recollections of an Australian Bushman (Brisbane: Watson, Ferguson & Co., 1927), passim
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19. Patsy Adam-Smith, The Shearers (Melbourne: Nelson, 1986), 39
20. Australian Town and Country Journal, 28 June 1879
21. Edmund Duggan, My Mate a Bush Love Story, act I, scene I (1911), MS 6304, Edmund Duggan Collection, National Library of Australia (hereafter NLA), Canberra
22. Australian Town and Country Journal, 28 June 1879, 9 March 1901. It is important to note that such observations were not just confined to a journal such as the Australian Town and Country Journal which was sympathetic to the cause of frontier battlers but were also to be found in the Australasian Pastoralists' Review. See Australasian Pastoralists' Review, 15 September 1894
23. Australasian Pastoralists' Review, 15 September 1894; Walter James Greenup, 'Autobiography', p. 186, MS 1101, ML. A qualification is needed here, however. The cult of hospitality did not just spring from notions of paternalism but from those of practicality, for squatters who did not give food and board to swaggies sometimes found their fences burned, their sheep slaughtered. See Trollope, 69-70
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27. Marilyn Lake, 'The Politics of Respectability: Identifying the Masculinist Context', Australian Historical Studies 22, no. 86 (April 1986): 116-31
28. Richard Waterhouse, 'Minstrel Show and Vaudeville House: The Australian Popular Stage, 1838-1914', Australian Historical Studies 23, no. 93 (October 1989): 383
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31. John Myers, The life, Voyages and Travels of Capt. John Myers (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Co., 1817),198
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36. Elizabeth Webby, The Aboriginal in Early Australian Literature', Southerly 1 (March 1980): 61
37. Richard Waterhouse, From Minstrel Show to Vaudeville: The Australian Popular Stage, 1788-1914 (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1990), 104-6. For the history of the minstrel show stage Negro
38. see Robert C, Toll, Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977)
39. Henry Melville, The Bushrangers, Hobart Town Magazine 3 (April 1834): 86; M'Lachlan, act 2, scene 1; Edmund Duggan and Bert Bailey, The Squatter's Daughter, passim, MS 6141, Bert Bailey Collection, NLA
40. Edmund Duggan and Ben Bailey, The Man From Outback; or Stockwhip and Saddle (1909), act I, scene 3, MS 6141, Bert Bailey Collection, NLA
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54. Australian Town and Country Journal, 7 April 1883
55. Australasian Pastoralists' Review, 15 November 1892, 16 May 1910
56. Walter Kilroy Harris, Outback in Australia or the Three Australian Overlanders (Newcastle: Garden City Press, 1913), 151, 154
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58. For a similar process in America see Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (New York: Hill & Wang, 1982), 3-37
59. Waterhouse, The Australian Popular Stage, 61-97
60. Mark St. Leon, Spangles and Sawdust: The Circus in Australia (Melbourne: Greenhouse Publications, 1983), passim
61. Australian Town and Country Journal, 25 July 1885, 7 May 1892
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63. W.H. Cooper, Hazard: or, Pearce Dyceton's Crime (Sydney: F. Cunninghame and Co., 1872), 10, 15
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66. Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath and Marian Quartly, Creating a Nation, 1788-1990 (Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1994), 117-8
67. Richard Waterhouse, Private Pleasures, Public Leisure: A History of Australian Popular Culture Since 1788 (Melbourne: Longman, 1995), 105-6
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69. Bulletin, 18 March 1899; Australian Town and Country Journal, 21 July 1909
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