Peter Morton
Lucy Sussex reviews 'Lusting for London: Australian Expatriate Writers at the Hub of Empire, 1870–1950' by Peter Morton
Lucy Sussex
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Until recently, there was a prevailing attitude that to succeed as a professional author one had to go into exile. The small Australian market could not support a writing career; it was necessary to travel abroad and court a larger readership. Because Australia was a British colony, the obvious destination was London, heart of empire.
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Published in
June 2012, no. 342
John Waller is a science historian at the University of Melbourne, and his new book is a study of the life and times of one Robert Blincoe. Though he is hardly a household name, Blincoe’s career is interesting in that he is the first factory worker in Britain’s Industrial Revolution whose biography can be reconstructed in some detail.
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Published in
February 2007, no. 288