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Monthly Archives: June 2017
These damn kiwis – they got me !
A few days ago I read an article as to reasons why New Zealand really hadn’t produced any significant writers before the twentieth century. I was reading the article as I’ve taken to reading nineteenth century novels as part of … Continue reading
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Madeleine Smith in New Zealand
Well, I though I would do the obvious and repeat my investigation of the distribution of the trial reports in New Zealand. Well that turned out not to be sensible – the non-Maori population in 1857 was only around 50,000, … Continue reading
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Melbourne gets the news first
As part of my looking into how the news of the Madeleine Smith trial got to Australia I thought I’d break the reports of the trial down by date and place of publication. And it’s quite striking – the first … Continue reading
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Madeleine Smith in South Africa (or maybe not)
Having established that it’s likely that the news of the Madeleine Smith trial reached Australia via the India/Sri Lanka route, I thought I’d look to see if there were any searchable digitised newspaper resources available for South African papers. I … Continue reading
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Madeleine Smith in America
I’ve previously written about how the Madeleine Smith trial was reported in Australia, so I thought I’d have a fairly superficial look at how it was reported in America. Remember that in 1857 there was no transatlantic telegraph cable – … Continue reading
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