PART I. On Colonial / Post-Colonial Australian Literary And Dramatic Texts: Notes By Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, Circa June 2023.

1.0: Blog's Title: PART I. On Colonial / Post-Colonial Australian Literary And Dramatic Texts: Notes By Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, Circa June 2023.

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2.0: George Howe, circa 1769, Saint Kitts, West Indies, to: 11 May 1821, Sydney, New South Wales: George Howe worked at the Government Press at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and compiled Australia's first-ever book: New South Wales General Standing Orders, circa 1802. Further, George Howe printed Australia's first periodical: The Australian Magazine; Or, Compendium Of Religious, Literary, And Miscellaneous Intelligence, circa 1821 and Australia's first book of poetry: First Fruits Of Australian Poetry, circa 1819, that contains two poems by the judge, Barron Field. George Howe fostered literature in Australia: before circa 1810 greater than forty poems, many of which he himself authored, were printed. During Governor Lachlan Macquarie's administration, George Howe printed a further seventy poems, such as the odes of Michael Robinson. George Howe printed in Australia, the hymn-book: An Abridgment Of The Wesleyan Hymns, selected from the larger English-printed hymn-book of circa 1821, and the Church of England hymn-book: Select Portions Of The Psalms Of David Etc., circa 1828. George Howe printed the first volume of verse: Wild Notes From The Lyre Of A Native Minstrel, circa 1826, by an Australian native-born, author: Charles Tompson Junior. Consequently, George Howe may genuinely be considered the "Father of Australian Literature".

2.1: New South Wales General Standing Orders, circa 1802—Governor Philip Gidley King instructed the government printer, managed by George Howe, to print in a single book, a selection of eight-hundred General Orders, issued from 16 February 1791 to 6 September 1800.

2.2: There are three extant copies, two of which are respectively held at: The State Library of New South Wales and The British Library.

2.3: Whatever literary efforts there were during the start of 19th-century Australia, nothing was printed except some official documents, until after the establishment circa 1803 of the Sydney Gazette And New South Wales Advertiser, of which George Howe was the editor.

2.4: An early work on Australian colonial printers is James Bonwick's Early Struggles Of The Australian Press, circa 1890; A. Sydney: Gordon And Gotch, 105 pages.

2.5: The standard work on printers is Edmund Morris Miller's Pressmen And Governors: Australian Editors And Writers In Early Tasmania—A Contribution To The History Of The Australian Press And Literature With Notes Biographical And Bibliographical, circa 1973; A. circa 1973, Sydney: Sydney University Press, viii, 308 pages, 24 centimeters, ISBN-10: 042406720X.

3.0: Watkin Tench, 6 October 1758, Chester, Cheshire, England, to: 7 May 1833 (aged 74), Devonport, England; was a royal marine and documentor of the First Fleet: his texts while written at the time of circa 1788, were only published later and made exemplums of the so-called Bicentary of Australia Festivities, circa 1988.

3.1: Sydney's First Four Years, circa 1961—with an introduction by L.F. Fitzhardinge of the Australian Royal Historical Society, Angus And Robertson, this text is considered the literary record regarding the history of the First Fleet and early settlement of Australia; A. circa 1961, Angus And Robertson, 364 pages, LCCN: 61004178, OCLC / WorldCat: 4376736.

3.2: A scanned copy is available at: <https://archive.org/details/sydneysfirstfour0000capt/page/n5/mode/1up>.

3.3: "Tench published three books: A Narrative Of The Expedition To Botany Bay: With An Account Of New South Wales, Its Productions, Inhabitants Etc., London, circa 1789, in three editions; also Dublin and New York editions and translations in to French, German and Dutch; A Complete Account of The Settlement At Port Jackson, In New South Wales, Including An Accurate Description Of The Situation Of The Colony; and of its Natural Productions; Taken On The Spot, circa 1793; German and Swedish translations; Letters Written In France To A Friend In London Between The Month Of November 1794 And The Month Of May 1795, circa 1796—the Narrative was re-printed in Sydney circa 1938, and the Narrative and the Complete Account, with introduction, notes and bibliography, under the title Sydney's First Four Years in Sydney circa 1961 (revised edition, 1964)"—from the website of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, accessed 18 June 2023, <https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/tench-watkin-2719>.

3.4: Watkin Tench 1788 (Text Classics), 26 April 2012; A. First Edition, Text Publishing, ‎320 pages, ‎12.7 x 1.91 x 20.32 centimeters, ISBN-10 ‎1921922311, ISBN-13 ‎978-1921922312.

4.0: Charles Sturt, 28 April 1795, Bengal, British India, to 16 June 1869 (aged 74), Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England:

4.1: Two Expeditions In To The Interior Of Southern Australia, circa 1834; A. recent edition: 16 February 2018, Alpha Editions, 378 pages, 21.59 x 13.97 x 2.13 centimeters, ISBN-13: 9789387600850, ISBN-10: 9387600858; B. a digitized edition is at the Gutenberg Press website: <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4330/pg4330-images.html>.

4.3: Riders To An Unknown Sea: The Story Of Charles Sturt, Explorer, 1 January 1963, by George Farwell, editor: Kylie Tennant, Saint Martin's Press, 192 pages.

4.4: Charles Sturt, circa 1951, by J. H. L. Cumpston, Melbourne, Georgian House, OL: 13982042M.

4.5: ‘Dr. John Harris Browne's Journal Of The Sturt Expedition, 1844-1845’, edited by H. J. Finnis in South Australiana, volume 5(1), circa March 1966, 23-54 pages.

5.0: George Barrington, 14 May 1755, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland, to: 27 December 1804 (aged 49), Parramatta, New South Wales; supposedly authored texts on New South Wales and commissioned the artist and engraver Vincent Woodthorpe, refer to the Australian Government's Prints And Print-Making website, accessed 4 July 2023, <https://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/artists/12359/>, who illustrated the two texts listed directly beneath. George Barrington's texts may be pseudo-history, published at a later time than claimed, but the texts nonetheless have historical value.

5.1: A Voyage To Botany Bay, circa 1795—available in two volumes, the first of which is: A. re-printed, circa 1801, London; C. circa 1810, London: printed for M. Jones, 522 pages.

5.2: The History Of New South Wales, circa 1802; A. circa 1802; B. circa 1810, London: printed for M. Jones, engraved, 598 pages.

6.0: Henry Savery, 4 August 1791, Somerset, England, to: 6 February 1842, Hobart, Tasmania, was transported and imprisoned at Van Diemen's Land.

6.1: The Hermit In Van Diemen's Land, circa 1829—the sketches formed the first volume of Australian essays, published by Hobart's Colonial Times, from circa June 1829 to circa December 1829, published under the pseudonym: Simon Stukeley; the text was the subject of a libel suit, circa May 1830; A. circa 1829, Andrew Bent, 154 pages, 17 centimeters; B. circa 1964, editors: Cecil Hadgraft and Margaret Roe, University of Queensland Press, 219 pages.

6.2: A further annotation, but on the text's literary contexts is: Henry Savery's sketches are greater in length than the Irish author, Olivier Goldsmith's series of letters: The Citizen Of The World, circa 1760 in the Public Ledger—Olivier Goldsmith's text is narrated by a Chinese character, Lien Chi, who resides in England: the letters use the fictional out-sider's perspective to comment ironically and at times moralistically on British society and manners—Olivier Goldsmith's text of circa 1760 was inspired by the earlier essay series: Persian Letters / Lettres Persanes, circa 1721, by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, a text recounting the experiences of two fictional Persian noblemen, Usbek and Rica, who spend several years in France under Louis XIV and the Regency.

6.3: Quintus Servinton, circa 1830; 

A. editor: Cecil Hadgraft, Jacaranda Press, circa 1962; B. an ebook version of the Jacaranda Press circa 1962 edition, at Gutenberg Press online: <https://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700971h.html#pref1>.

6.6: The original edition of Quintus Servinton is extremely rare, only three copies being listed in John Alexander Ferguson's eight-volune set: The Bibliography Of Australia; A. 1 December 1987, National Library of Australia, ISBN-10: 0642990433, ISBN-13: 9780642990433, and the copies are held by Dr. W. Crowther of the Mitchell Library, and the Public Library of Tasmania.

6.7: Both Henry Savery's texts are now extremely rare, only four or five copies of each being known to exist.

6.8: A biography of Henry Savery is available on the Australian Dictionary of Biography website: <https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/savery-henry-2632>.

6.9: About Henry Savery: Australia's First Two Novels: Origins And Back-ground, circa 1958 by Edmund Morris Miller; Hobart.

6.10: A Forger's Tale: The Extraordinary Story Of Henry Savery, Australia's First Novelist, circa 2011, by Rod Howard, Arcade Publications, Melbourne.

7.0: Reverend John Dunmore Lang, 25 August 1799 Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland to: 8 August 1878 (aged 78), Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, was a Scottish-born Australian, Presbyterian minister, writer, historian, politician and activist, viz. the first prominent advocate for an independent Australian nation and Australian Republicanism—by circa 1850 John Dunmore Lang, inspired by the Chartist movement of Britain and by the 1848 revolution of France, became a radical democrat and a republican; with Henry Parkes and James Wilshire he founded the Australian League.

7.1: An Historical And Statistical Account Of New South Wales: Both As A Penal Settlement And As A British Colony, circa 1837; A. circa 1837, in two volumes, 1024 pages, 20 centimeters, held at the Kress Library of Business and Economics, Harvard University. 

7.2: Freedom And Independence For The Golden Lands Of Australia, circa 1852; A. circa 1852, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Lingmans, 366 pages. 

7.3: View Of The Origin And Migrations Of The Polynesian Nation; Demonstrating Their Ancient Discovery And Progressive Settlement Of The Continent Of America, circa 1834; A. London: Cochrane and M'Crone, 268 pages.

8.0: James Tucker, circa 1808, Bristol, Wales to: circa 1888, who was a convict and supposed author.

8.1: Ralph Rashleigh; Or, The Life Of An Exile, circa 1844; was published in an heavily edited form circa 1929; his original manuscript was published circa 1952.

8.2: Refer to: <http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301291h.html#Chapter1>.

Figure I. A Photo Of The Cover / Dust-jacket Of Ralph Rashleigh, circa 1955 by James Tucker, Angus And Robertson.

9.0: Raffællo Carboni, 15 December 1817, Urbino, Italy, to: 24 October 1875 (aged 57), Rome, Italy.

9.1: The Eureka Stockade, circa 1855; A. circa 1855, Melbourne: J.P. Atkinson And Company with an Introduction by H.V. Evatt, Windsor, Victoria: Currey O'Neil, 228 pages, ISBN-10: 0855503343, ISBN-13: 9780855503345; B. Gutenberg Press website: <https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/e00015.html#ch002>. 

9.2: Rita, circa 1859 (in Italian)—there appears no available information on this libretto and musical score.

9.3: La Campana Della Gancia: Grande Opera-ballo In Quattro Atti E Quattro Cambia-scene In Ciascuno: Con La Sinfonia: Progettata In Milano Di Maggio; Posta Sul Telaro A Genova Di Giugno; Lavorata In Palermo Dal Primo Luglio, circa 1860; viz. ultimo mano 4 Aprile 1861 (in Italian), Palermo: Stamperia Carini: P. Bertoni: Domenico Cutrera, 74 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 22 centimeters.

10.0: Rachel Henning, Rachel Biddulph Henning, circa 1826 to: circa 1914, was born in England; during circa 1854 she travelled to Australia but returned to England circa 1856 due to home-sickness and the hot climate. Rachel Henning returned to Australia and settled, with her brother and sister on their property at Queensland, then she married circa 1866 and later moved to a property at Figtree on the New South Wales south coast near Wollongong.

10.1: The Letters Of Rachel Henning, circa 1952—Rachel Henning's descriptive letters, mainly addressed to her sister at England, provide a detailed account of nearly thirty years of pioneering life in Australia; A. circa 1952, with an introduction by David Adams and forty illustrations by Norman Lindsay, The Bulletin Newspaper Proprietary Limited  Sydney; B. circa 1986, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia: Angus And Robertson, xii, 330 pages, 27 centimeters, ISBN-10: 020714981X.

10.2: The literary critic Debra Adelaide commented: "they are valued for their vivid portrayal of station life in the second half of the nineteenth century and for her own humour and frankness about the life she led"—page 93 from 

Australian Women Writers: A Bibliographic Guide, circa 1988 by Debra Adelaide, London: Pandora, ISBN-10: 0-86358-149-8.

11.0: James Martin, circa 1760 to unknown, was a convict transported to New South Wales; notable for authoring the only extant First Fleet convict account of life in the colony—the manuscript is from Jeremy Benthem's archive, supposedly.

11.1: Memorandoms By James Martin: An Astonishing Escape From Early New South Wales, circa 2017;  

A. edited by Tim Causer, 16 March 2023, UCL Press, 204 pages, ISBN-13: 9781911576846, ISBN-10: 1911576844; hard-back, ISBN: 978-1-911576-83-9; paper-back, ISBN: 978-1-911576-82-2; DOI: 10.14324/111.9781911576815.

12.0: Charles Harpur, 23 January 1813,

Windsor, New South Wales, to: 10 June 1868 (aged 55), Eurobodalla, New South Wales: noted as "Australia’s first native-born poet".

12.1: Charles Harpur: Colonial Poets, circa 1973, Edited by Adrian Mitchell; A. circa 1973, Melbourne: Sun Books, xxxi, 199 pages, 18 centimeters, ISBN-10: 0725101482. 

12.2: Stalwart The Bushranger, with, The Tragedy of Donohoe, circa 1987, edited by Elizabeth Perkins, ISBN-10: 0868191841. 

12.3: A Storm In The Mountains And Lost In the Bush, circa 2006; ISBN-10: 0977575845. 

12.4: Charles Harpur Critical Archive, circa 2019, edited by Paul Eggert, ISBN-13: 9781743326831.

13.0: Disclaimer: This blog post is the exclusive intellectual property of Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, 4 December 1976–, Queensland, Australia; Google email: craigsjlacey@gmail.com and elliottthmckenzie@gmail.com, as the sole researcher, writer and typographer, and further, an Australian practicing his white, Australian culture, copy-right © 15 June 2023 to 15 July 2023: Craig Steven Joseph Lacey.

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13.4: This blog was first published on-line 3 July 2023 and most recently up-dated: 13 July 2023: produced during circa June 2023 until the recent up-date.

13.5: There are 13 main points listed in this blog, with: 1.0: this blog's title; 2.0–2.5: George Howe; 3.0–3.4: Watkin Tench; 4.0–4.5: Charles Sturt; 5.0–5.2: George Barrington; 6.0–6.10: Henry Savery; 7.0–7.2: Reverend John Dunmore Lang; 8.0–8.2: James Tucker; 9.0–9.3: Raffællo Carboni; 10.0–10.2: Rachel Henning; 11.0–11.1: James Martin; 12.0–12.4: Charles Harpur; 13.0–13.5: the legal disclaimer■