National Library of Australia

The Tyranny of Distance: Charles Lamb and the Australian Common Reader


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Professor Gillian Russell explores the Prance collection to explain why British Romanticist Charles Lamb was interested in Australia, and how this was repaid by devotion from Australian readers.
Professor Russell is the 2018 national Library Fellow in Australian Literature, supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust.
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