Yesterday's Faces, Volume 3
Yesterday's Faces, Volume 3

Author: Robert Sampson

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1987-12

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780879723637

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More than forty criminal heroes are examined in this volume. They include evil characters such as Dr. Fu Manchu, Li Shoon, Black Star, the Spider, Rafferty, Mr. Clackworthy, Elegant Edward, Big-nose Charlie, Thubway Tham, the Thunderbolt, the Man in Purple, and the Crimson Clown, plus many, many more! The development of these characters is traced across more than two decades of crime fiction published in Detective Story Magazine, Flynn's, Black Mask, and other magazines. The conventions that made these stories a special part of popular fiction are examined in detail.

‘The Right Thing to Read’
‘The Right Thing to Read’

Author: Bronwyn Lowe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-09

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1351008102

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‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 explores the reading habits, identity, and construction of femininity of Australian girls aged between ten and fourteen from 1910 to 1960. It investigates changing notions of Australian girlhood across the period, and explores the ways that parents, teachers, educators, journalists and politicians attempted to mitigate concerns about girls’ development through the promotion of ‘healthy’ literature. The book also addresses the influence of British publishers to Australian girl-readers and the growing importance of Australian publishers throughout the period. It considers the rise of Australian literary nationalism in the global context, and the increasing prominence of Australian literature in the period after the Second World War. It also shows how access to reading material improved for girls over the first half of the last century.

The Interior
The Interior

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Published: 1922

Total Pages: 850

ISBN-13:

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Issues for Jan 12, 1888-Jan. 1889 include monthly "Magazine supplement".