12,319 research outputs found
Gold buyer, the market price discussed, Eaglehawk, Victoria /
No full textTitle from inscription.; In: Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are, August 1852, Part 1.; Part of the collection: Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are, 1852.; Inscriptions: "S.T.G."--Printed lower left of image; "Gold buyer, the market price discussed, Eagle Hawk, Victoria"--Printed lower right of image.; Condition: Yellowing on edges.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6571364
Diggers licence inspected, Forest Creek, Victoria /
No full textTitle from inscription.; In: Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are, August 1852, Part 1.; Part of the collection: Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are, 1852.; Inscriptions: "S.T.G."--Printed lower left of image; "License inspected, Forest Creek"--Printed lower right of image.; Condition: Yellowing on edges.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6571312
View of Mount Dandenong, Victoria, 1910 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on caption.; In: Dr Samuel Ware's photograph album.; Inscriptions: "1910, Mt Dandenong"--Below image.; Condition: Buckled, faded and yellowing.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn5497468
Loch Ard Gorge, Victoria, 1919 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on caption.; In: Dr Samuel Ware's photograph album.; Inscriptions: "1919, Near LochArd Gorge"--Below image.; Condition: Buckled, scratched, yellowing and faded.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn5497453
Digger's hut, canvas and bark, Forest Creek, Victoria /
No full textTitle from inscription.; In: Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are, August 1852, Part 1.; Part of the collection: Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are, 1852.; Inscriptions: "S.T.G."--Printed lower left of image; "Digger's hut canvas and bark, Forest Creek"--Printed lower right of image.; Condition: Yellowing on edges.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6571292
Railway track at Dartmoor, Victoria, ca. 1920 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on caption.; In: Dr Samuel Ware's photograph album.; Inscriptions: "Dartmoor"--Below image.; Condition: Buckled and yellowing.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn5383031
Zealous gold diggers, Bendigo, Victoria, 1 July 1852 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on inscription.; In: Sketches of the Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are, 1852. Part 2.; Part of the collection: Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are, 1852.; Inscriptions: "S.T.G."--Printed lower left of image; "Zealous Gold diggers Bendigo July 1st/52"--Printed lower right of image.; Condition: Yellowing on edges.; Also available in electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4555618
Mrs Murray washing her hands in a bucket, Victoria?, 1918 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on caption.; In: Dr Samuel Ware's photograph album.; Location of photograph is questionable.; Inscriptions: "1918 Mrs Murray"--Below image.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn5497531
Father Samuel, Tarrawarra Abbey, Yarra Glen, Victoria, April 2013, 1 /
No full textTitle from caption list.; "Father Samuel is involved with the work of distributing eucharistic breads to most Catholic parishes and institutions in Victoria and elsewhere."--Information supplied by photographer.; Mode of access: Online.; Purchased from the photographer, 2014
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
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