The Archibald Paradox: A Strange Case of Authorship by Sylvia Lawson

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and at spine. Interior and binding are still excellent.

The early Sydney Bulletin, 'a parade of expressive tricks and marvels', came out of the vociferous clamour that was the late nineteenth-century press--British radical weeklies, battling American dailies, lively news sheets from bush towns and goldfields—turning up every week in its violent pink cover.

In this remarkable study of the Bulletin and its founding editor, J F Archibald, Sylvia Lawson provides a provocative re-interpretation of the legendary 1880s and 1890s, looking at the dark side of the circus as well as its high entertainment. (Trove)