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Hilda Bridges
Hilda Maggie Bridges (19 October 1881 – 11 September 1971) was an Australian novelist, short story writer and music teacher. Early life and education Hilda Maggie Bridges was born in Sorell, Tasmania on 19 October 1881 to basketmaker Samuel and Laura Jane Bridges (née Wood). Her younger brother, Royal Tasman Bridges, known as Roy, was a journalist and novelist, for whom she acted as housekeeper, secretary and companion. Bridges was educated at Scotch College, Hobart. Career On leaving school Bridges expected to begin teaching but, instead, she became secretary to her brother, Roy. As no typewriter was available, her work included copying his writings by hand to send to publishers. Her handwriting was "beautiful, meticulous" and "must have been loved by editors and publishers". She worked speedily, which skill translated to her own writing, for example she claimed she had "done a 45,000-words serial in a week". In 1922 she adapted '' The Squatter's Daughter'', the 1907 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilda Bridges
Hilda Maggie Bridges (19 October 1881 – 11 September 1971) was an Australian novelist, short story writer and music teacher. Early life and education Hilda Maggie Bridges was born in Sorell, Tasmania on 19 October 1881 to basketmaker Samuel and Laura Jane Bridges (née Wood). Her younger brother, Royal Tasman Bridges, known as Roy, was a journalist and novelist, for whom she acted as housekeeper, secretary and companion. Bridges was educated at Scotch College, Hobart. Career On leaving school Bridges expected to begin teaching but, instead, she became secretary to her brother, Roy. As no typewriter was available, her work included copying his writings by hand to send to publishers. Her handwriting was "beautiful, meticulous" and "must have been loved by editors and publishers". She worked speedily, which skill translated to her own writing, for example she claimed she had "done a 45,000-words serial in a week". In 1922 she adapted '' The Squatter's Daughter'', the 1907 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorell, Tasmania
Sorell is a town in Tasmania, Australia, north-east of Hobart. It is located on the Tasman Highway at the junction with the Arthur Highway. Sorell is one of Tasmania's oldest towns, being first settled in 1808 as a small farming community and becoming an official township in 1821. At the , Sorell had a population of 1,546, and at the 2011 census, a population of 2,476. and at the 2016 census, a population of 2,907. History Sorell was named after William Sorell, the third Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land. Historically, it was known as a major town on the route from Hobart to Port Arthur on the Tasman Peninsula. It was the centre of an agricultural area and an important market town. It is now a dormitory town of Hobart, as well as the seat of the Sorell Council. In 1872 the Sorell Causeway was opened, from the Cambridge direction, across Pitt Water and Orielton Lagoon to Sorell, stopping at Midway Point in the middle. This shortened the route considerably from the or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Tasman Bridges
Royal Tasman Bridges (23 March 1885 – 14 March 1952) was an Australian author. He has been described as "Tasmania's most prolific novelist". Bridges was born in Hobart, Tasmania. He graduated from the University of Tasmania and subsequently worked as a journalist with the ''Tasmanian News'', ''The Mercury'', ''The Australian Star'', and '' The Age'' (including as chief parliamentary reporter. He published his first novel, ''The Barb of an Arrow'', in 1909 and wrote prolifically for the rest of his life, completing 36 novels on a variety of themes. Many of Bridges' works were cheap, quickly written paperbacks published by the NSW Bookstall Company. His more "mature" works have been classed within the Tasmanian Gothic genre. According to his biographer Anne-Marie Condé, he is "remembered mainly by enthusiasts interested in the literary culture of Tasmania". From 1930 until his death in 1952, Bridges lived with his sister Hilda Bridges Hilda Maggie Bridges (19 October 1881 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Squatter's Daughter (play)
''The Squatter's Daughter or, The Land of the Wattle'' is a 1907 Australian play by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan, writing under the combined pseudonym Albert Edmunds. Synopsis The story is set in the 1860s and focuses around the rivalry between two neighbouring sheep stations in rural Australia, "Enderby" and "Waratah". Enderby is owned by a woman, the feisty Violet Enderby, the "squatter's daughter". Waratah is owned by James Harrington, who is Violet's guardian. Violet is in love with Tom Bathurst, an overseer employed on Waratah. While James Harrington is away, the property is being run by his son, the weak Dudley Harrington, who seeks to undermine Bathurst in the eyes of Violet and his father. Having failed in that he gets bushranger Ben Hall and his gang to abduct Violet and hold her for ransom. Matters are complicated by the presence of an English "new chum", Archie McPherson. Original Production The play was originally produced by William Anderson and made its debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Bailey
Albert Edward Bailey (11 June 1868 – 30 March 1953), better known as Bert Bailey, was a New Zealand-born Australian playwright, theatrical manager and stage and screen actor best known for playing Dad Rudd, in both mediums, the character from the books penned by Steele Rudd. Early life Bailey was born in Auckland, New Zealand, the second son of farmer Christopher Bailey and Harriette Adelaide. His parents divorced and Bailey's mother moved with him to Sydney when he was six months old. She remarried in 1879 and went on to become a noted retailer, establishing the firm McCathie's. Bailey was educated at Crown Street School and Cleveland Street Public School. He decided not to go into the family business and worked as a telegram boy and at a floor manager at Crystal Palace skating rink. At age fifteen he went into vaudeville as a tambourine player and vocalist at Canterbury Music Hall in George Street, Sydney. In 1889 he joined the touring theatrical company of Edmund Duggan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Duggan (playwright)
Edmund Duggan (1862 – 2 August 1938) was an Irish-born actor and playwright who worked in Australia. He is best known for writing a number of plays with Bert Bailey including '' The Squatter's Daughter'' (1907) and ''On Our Selection'' (1912). His solo career was less successful than Bailey's. His sister Eugenie was known as "The Queen of Melodrama" and married noted theatre producer William Anderson, for whom Duggan frequently worked as an actor, writer and stage manager. Between 1892 and 1895 Duggan and South's "Her Majesty's Dramatic Company", toured New South Wales with (''inter alia'') ''La Tosca'', ''All for Gold'', ''Greta''. '' His Natural Life'' and ''Robbery Under Arms''. consistently receiving good notices. Duggan's wife died two years before he did and he was survived by two daughters. Select theatre credits *''The Democrat'' (1891) – writer (later revived as ''Eureka Stockade'') *''For the Term of his Natural Life'' (1897) – writer (adapting the novel), (190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NSW Bookstall Company
NSW Bookstall Company was a Sydney company which operated a chain of newsagencies throughout New South Wales. It was notable as a publisher of inexpensive paperback books which were written, illustrated, published and printed in Australia, and sold to commuters at bookstalls in railway stations and elsewhere in New South Wales. History The company was founded as the Sydney Bookstall Company by Henry Lloyd (ca.1847 – 24 September 1897) of "Linden Hall", Annandale, New South Wales around 1880 as a newsagent. Its first foray into publishing may have been racebooks ( form guides or programmes) for the Hawkesbury Race Club around 1886. A. C. Rowlandson (15 June 1865 – 15 June 1922) joined as a tram ticket seller in 1883 and built a strong interest in the business, which he bought from Henry Lloyd's widow. The greatest part of the company's business consisted of retailing local, interstate and overseas periodicals, postcards ( Neville Cayley produced a series) and stationery from i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Australasian
The ''Australasian Post'', commonly called the ''Aussie Post'', was Australia's longest-running weekly picture magazine. History and profile Its origins are traceable to Saturday, 3 January 1857, when the first issue of ''Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle'' (probably best known for Tom Wills's famous 1858 Australian rules football letter) was released. The weekly, which was produced by Charles Frederic Somerton in Melbourne, was one of several Bell's Life publications based on the format of ''Bell's Life in London'', a Sydney version having been published since 1845. On 1 October 1864, the weekly newspaper ''The Australasian'' was launched in Melbourne, Victoria by the proprietors of ''The Argus (Melbourne), The Argus''. It supplanted three unprofitable ''Argus'' publications: ''The Weekly Argus'', ''The Examiner (Melbourne), The Examiner'', and ''The Yeoman'', and contained features of all three. A competitor, ''The Age'', gloated that as it was printed on coarse h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Library Of Tasmania
The State Reference Library is the reference library in the state of Tasmania, Australia. It is part of Libraries Tasmania. Libraries Tasmania includes a state-wide network of library services, community learning, adult literacy and the State’s archives and heritage services. History The first "Tasmanian Public Library" opened in 1849, in a house in Hobart, funded by a government grant and yearly subscription of members. It became accessible to the public in 1860, but was forced to close in 1867 owing to debts. In 1870 a new, free public reference library A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a vi ... opened in the Hobart Town Hall. American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie funded the move to new premises in 1907, with the requirement that a free lending service should be esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Morris (judge)
Sir John Demetrius Morris (24 December 1902 – 3 July 1956) was an Australian jurist, who was Chief Justice of Tasmania from 1940 until his death in office in 1956. Early life and education Morris was born in 1902 in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn. He was the third child of James Demetrius Morris, a New Zealander of Greek descent, and his Victorian-born wife Margaret Jane Smith. He was educated at St Patrick's College, East Melbourne St Patrick's College was an independent Catholic school in Melbourne, Victoria from 1854 until 1968. It was the second independent school and the first Catholic Church, Catholic secondary education in Australia, secondary school in Victoria founde ..., and then studied arts and law at the University of Melbourne. Legal career On 7 November 1927, Morris was admitted to the Victorian Bar. In October 1930, he and his new wife, Mary McDermott, moved to Hobart, where Morris was admitted to the Tasmanian Bar. He joined the law firm of Albert Ogilvie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Advocate (Australia)
''The Advocate'' is a local newspaper of North-West and Western Tasmania, Australia. It was formerly published under the names ''The Wellington Times'', ''The Emu Bay Times'', and ''The North Western Advocate and The Emu Bay Times''. Its readership covers the North West Coast and West Coast of Tasmania, including towns such as Devonport, Burnie, Ulverstone, Penguin, Wynyard, Latrobe, and Smithton. the newspaper is published by Australian Community Media, located at 39-41 Alexander Street, Burnie, Tasmania. Early history On Wednesday 1 October 1890 Robert Harris and his sons, Robert and Charles published the first issue of ''The Wellington Times'', Burnie's first newspaper. It was named after the county in which Burnie and Emu Bay were located and was first published only on Wednesdays and Saturdays. With a circulation around 2000 its four broadsheet pages cost 1.5 d. The original ''Burnie Wellington Times'' office in 1890 stood on a site in Cattley Street and employ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Tasmania
The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university, primarily located in Tasmania, Australia. Founded in 1890, it is Australia's fourth oldest university. Christ College, one of the university's residential colleges, first proposed in 1840 in Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Franklin's Legislative Council, was modeled on the Oxford and Cambridge colleges, and was founded in 1846, making it the oldest tertiary institution in the country. The university is a sandstone university, a member of the international Association of Commonwealth Universities, and the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning. The university offers various undergraduate and graduate programs in a range of disciplines, and has links with 20 specialist research institutes and co-operative research centres. Its Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies has strongly contributed to the university's multiple 5 rating scores (''well above world standard'') for excellence in re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
