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The Australian and other verses /
No full textFirst published: Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1916.Illustrated end papers; added t.-p. with vignette in color.Mode of access: Internet
The singin lass : a reflection on the life of the poet Marion Angus (1865-1946) in the form of an account of her life and work, and three extracts from 'Blackthorn', a novel
No full textPart 1 of this thesis comprises a biography which, for the first time, places Marion Angus within her historical, family and social context. A version of this was published as the introduction to my edited collection The Singin Lass: Selected Work of Marion Angus (Polygon, 2006).
Assumptions made about the poet's activities and attitudes derive from critical reading of archival material: her published 'diaries', letters and prose, as well as her poetry. The appraisal of her work places it within literary contexts. The development of her linguistic awareness of the Scots language is traced and the extent of her commitment to it noted.
I conclude that assessment of her work has frequently been affected by erroneous judgements about her lifestyle and that the poetry, which has greater depth than it sometimes is given credit for, illuminates her struggle rather than defines her character. Her strength and resilience, as well as her contribution to Scots literature, should be respected and admired.
Part II comprises three extracts from Blackthorn, a novel based on aspects of the life and work of Marion Angus. My starting point was the marked contrast between her earlier prose and her later poetry. This, I believe, reflects an actual family crisis which is central to my narrative. The extracts presented here (dated 1900, 1930 and 1945-46) present a credible alternative to inaccurate assumptions which were made about her life. I explore two actual significant relationships in her life: with a sister who becomes wholly dependent on her, and with a younger friend who looks after her in her final year. In the absence of any firm evidence of lovers, I speculate on other relationships
Hawkeswood (Trevor). — Beetles of Australia. Angus & Robertson, London, 1987
No full textJolivet Pierre. Hawkeswood (Trevor). — Beetles of Australia. Angus & Robertson, London, 1987. In: Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, volume 92 (9-10), juin 1987. p. 310
Angus & Robertson and the British trade in Australian Books, 1930 131970: The getting of bookselling wisdom
No full textDespite upheavals in ownership over the past three decades, the name Angus & Robertson remains to date the most recognised book-retailing brand in Australia. However, it is little known that through the incredible efforts of everyone involved in the operations of its London agency, Angus & Robertson was, for a time, also the most recognised Australian bookselling and book publishing brand in the commonwealth.
This book documents a distinctive chapter in the history of Australian book publishing as it addresses how the company dealt with the tension between aspirational literary nationalism and the requirements of turning a profit while attempting to get inside the UK literary market. As well as detailing Angus & Robertson 19s complete international relations, the book argues that the company 19s international business was a much larger, more successful and complicated business than has been acknowledged by previous scholars. It questions the ways in which Angus & Robertson replicated, challenged or transformed the often highly criticised commercial practices of British publishers in order to develop an export trade for Australian books in the United Kingdom.
18Angus & Robertson and the British Trade in Australian Books, 1930 131970 19 is the first of its kind; no other book in the present literary market records a substantial history of Australia 19s largest publisher and its role in the development of Australia 19s export book trade. Although a unique piece, this volume also complements existing studies on Angus & Robertson, Australian literature and Australian publishing
Angus & Robertson and the case of the "Bombshell Salesman"
No full textverseas branches cannot forever remain independent of local politics, as Angus and Robertson's London office was to learn through the activities of its travelling salesman Bernard Robinson. As part of its post-Second World War rebuilding operations, in late February 1950 Angus and Robertson's Sydney publisher George Ferguson notified the company's London office manager, Hector MacQuarrie, that the firm's catalogue was nearing completion and the pressure increased for MacQuarrie to have salesmen ready to cover London, Scotland and the English provinces. So too for regular advertisements ('as attractive as those of, say, Faber, Chatto or Jonathan Cape') to begin appearing in The Bookseller (UK) to 'prepare the way for ... travellers.' Angus and Robertson was very enthusiastic about the cargo of books in transit from Sydney to London, producing circulars for display in the Bank of New South Wales (West End, London) and Australia House, but while the London office was 'enjoying considerable success in the London area' in generating orders it had 'little to speak of outside the metropolitan area.' There were it seemed 'frightful problem[s]' enticing travellers to manage provincial sales - no one wanted to do it - and MacQuarrie had to employ salesmen from British publisher George G. Harrap to circulate titles; MacQuarrie feared the potential ire of the Australian book trade if this was ever discovered. Already a subscription salesman for Angus and Robertson in Sydney and interested in working in England, Bernard Robinson was appointed by Ferguson to market Angus and Robertson titles to the provincial libraries and meet the 'greatly developed United Kingdom interest in Australia.' Robinson would arrive in London in April 1950 and would travel books from one province to the next on a commission of 15% per sale
A curate in Bohemia /
No full textPreviously published: Sydney, N.S.W. Bookstall, 1913; Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1981.Mode of access: Internet
Angus and Robertson and the Case of the 'Bombshell Salesman'
No full textOverseas branches cannot forever remain independent of local politics, as Angus and Robertson's London office was to learn through the activities of its travelling salesman Bernard Robinson. As part of its post-Second World War rebuilding operations, in late February 1950 Angus and Robertson's Sydney publisher George Ferguson notified the company's London office manager, Hector MacQuarrie, that the firm's catalogue was nearing completion and the pressure increased for MacQuarrie to have salesmen ready to cover London, Scotland and the English provinces. So too for regular advertisements ('as attractive as those of, say, Faber, Chatto or Jonathan Cape') to begin appearing in The Bookseller (UK) to 'prepare the way for ... travellers.' Angus and Robertson was very enthusiastic about the cargo of books in transit from Sydney to London, producing circulars for display in the Bank of New South Wales (West End, London) and Australia House, but while the London office was 'enjoying considerable success in the London area' in generating orders it had 'little to speak of outside the metropolitan area.' There were it seemed 'frightful problem[s]' enticing travellers to manage provincial sales - no one wanted to do it - and MacQuarrie had to employ salesmen from British publisher George G. Harrap to circulate titles; MacQuarrie feared the potential ire of the Australian book trade if this was ever discovered. Already a subscription salesman for Angus and Robertson in Sydney and interested in working in England, Bernard Robinson was appointed by Ferguson to market Angus and Robertson titles to the provincial libraries and meet the 'greatly developed United Kingdom interest in Australia.' Robinson would arrive in London in April 1950 and would travel books from one province to the next on a commission of 15% per sale
The magic pudding : being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay : [publisher's brochure]
No full textCover title.; First published by Angus & Robertson in 1918 as: The magic pudding : being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff.; At head of title: Ready early in September.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn1274760; Relocated from JAFp GEN LIN to JAF Broadside on 6 July 2010 after it was digitised with earlier location on item
Publishing for children : Angus & Robertson and the development of Australian children’s publishing, 1897-1933
No full textPublishing for Children explores how Angus & Robertson, a prominent Australian publisher, contributed to the development of Australian children’s literature in the early twentieth-century. Grounded in the interdisciplinary field of book history and adopting a mixed-methods approach, it initiates a conversation about this previously neglected aspect of Australian literary history. Drawing on historical bibliometric data, it seeks to establish a chronology of the firm’s initial involvement in Australian children’s publishing under the leadership of George Robertson from 1897 to 1933. It moves beyond close readings of canonical texts to identify and appraise all seventy-one Australian children’s books produced by the firm in this period, contextualised within histories of Angus & Robertson and Australian children’s literature. This chronology includes a consideration of the under-researched Cornstalk imprint (operating 1924-1929). This thesis also seeks to foreground the business practices behind the publication and promotion of this corpus. The commercial aspects of book production are significant but are often neglected in children’s literature studies. To examine these practices, Publishing for Children incorporates close qualitative and distant quantitative analysis of historical materials in the Angus & Robertson Archive, an extensive repository of records held by the State Library of New South Wales. Notably, it involves statistical analysis of a collection of 4000 contemporary book reviews that have been routinely underutilised in previous scholarship. In this way, Publishing for Children presents Angus & Robertson as both a cultural and commercial actor. It acknowledges the national importance of their activities as they produced notable Australian children’s books and successfully pioneered a broader tradition of domestic children’s publishing despite the significant economic obstacles of the period. However, it also foregrounds the distinctly commercial motivations that underpinned their business decisions, challenging the dominant image of Angus & Robertson as a nationalistic, beneficent firm
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