“Ariel” and Australian Nineteenth-Century Serial Fiction : A Case of Mistaken Attribution
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Cleary, James
Mills, Catriona
Griffith University Author(s)
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2010
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In 2002, Harold Love described nineteenth-century journalism as "the largely unmapped terra incognita of attribution studies," emphasising that "for minor literary authors and politicians and all professional journalists, the determination of authorship is often crucial to whether a career can be mapped out in the first place."1 This paper outlines an instance of mistaken attribution in nineteenth-century Australian serial fiction, in which an early Australian author disappeared from the record when the bulk of her published output was attributed to another writer. The focus of this paper is five long tales published under ...
View more >In 2002, Harold Love described nineteenth-century journalism as "the largely unmapped terra incognita of attribution studies," emphasising that "for minor literary authors and politicians and all professional journalists, the determination of authorship is often crucial to whether a career can be mapped out in the first place."1 This paper outlines an instance of mistaken attribution in nineteenth-century Australian serial fiction, in which an early Australian author disappeared from the record when the bulk of her published output was attributed to another writer. The focus of this paper is five long tales published under the pseudonym "Ariel" in The Sydney Mail between 1860 and 1878: "Bitter Sweet-So Is The World" (25 Aug. 1860-16 Mar. 1861), "Which Wins? A Tale of Life's Impulses" (19 Oct. 1861-10 May 1862), "A Lonely Lot" (4 July 1863-20 Feb. 1864), "Fallen By The Way" (1 July 1871-20 Jan. 1872), and "Mrs Ord" (10 Aug.-16 Nov. 1878). In the last quarter of the twentieth century, an increasingly stable attribution to Eliza Winstanley, an English-born actress and writer, developed on the basis of an initial unsubstantiated attribution by Eric Irvin. We wish to demonstrate conclusively that Menie Parkes, the daughter of NSW Premier Sir Henry Parkes, was Ariel.
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View more >In 2002, Harold Love described nineteenth-century journalism as "the largely unmapped terra incognita of attribution studies," emphasising that "for minor literary authors and politicians and all professional journalists, the determination of authorship is often crucial to whether a career can be mapped out in the first place."1 This paper outlines an instance of mistaken attribution in nineteenth-century Australian serial fiction, in which an early Australian author disappeared from the record when the bulk of her published output was attributed to another writer. The focus of this paper is five long tales published under the pseudonym "Ariel" in The Sydney Mail between 1860 and 1878: "Bitter Sweet-So Is The World" (25 Aug. 1860-16 Mar. 1861), "Which Wins? A Tale of Life's Impulses" (19 Oct. 1861-10 May 1862), "A Lonely Lot" (4 July 1863-20 Feb. 1864), "Fallen By The Way" (1 July 1871-20 Jan. 1872), and "Mrs Ord" (10 Aug.-16 Nov. 1878). In the last quarter of the twentieth century, an increasingly stable attribution to Eliza Winstanley, an English-born actress and writer, developed on the basis of an initial unsubstantiated attribution by Eric Irvin. We wish to demonstrate conclusively that Menie Parkes, the daughter of NSW Premier Sir Henry Parkes, was Ariel.
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Script and Print: bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand. Bulletin
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34
Issue
3
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Language, Communication and Culture
History and Archaeology
Philosophy and Religious Studies