'I shall tell just such stories as I please': Mary Fortune and the Australian Journal.

From: Australian Literary Studies | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

I have been told by some that I tell horrible stories, and by others that I am not sensational enough; and I have personally come to the conclusion that I shall tell just such stories as I please, and that those who do not like them need not read them; and so I begin, always with this understanding. (1)

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KEN Stewart has described reading the nineteenth-century periodical press as the discovery of a 'virtually unmapped island of "Australian" culture' (9), making him feel as though 'something had been going on that [he] should have been told about--that an entire ...

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