Item H0115 - White Australia : the White Man's Land, or For Australia / by Randolph Bedford

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H0115

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White Australia : the White Man's Land, or For Australia / by Randolph Bedford

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  • [1909?] (Creation)

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87 l. ; 30 cm.

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(1868-1941)

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Randolph Bedford, born in 1868 in Sydney, became a journalist in the 1880s, founder of 'The Clarion' (1897-1909). Author of 5 novels, countless short stories, poetry, travel, descriptive and autobiographical work and the play 'The white man's land' which was staged in Melbourne in 1909. He was a member of the Qld Legislative Council, 1917-1923, and of its Legislative Assembly, 1923-1941. Randolph was the father of Eric Bedford, and grandfather of Liz Collins. He gained considerable wealth from goldmining in Western Australia.

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From the Hanger Collection of Australian Playscripts.

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  • English

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In margins : Australian Archives Accession A1336/2, item 931.

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Typescript (photocopy)
Ms. emendations.
Note in pencil on first page by Richard Fotheringham : first performed 27 Feb. 1909, Protestant Hall, Exhibition St., Melbourne.

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991001748589703131

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Migrated

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Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.

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