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Australian bush, which would have a great influence on his writing. He continued to write and sketch, being a talented cartoonist and illustrator as well as a writer, and had his work published under the pen name Marcus Scrivener. It is said that Clarke lost this job as a station hand in part because his influence over the other workers was showing in their eagerness to take more regular breaks to read novels under a tree. Whether this is true or not, Clarke's time as a station hand would have reached its end sooner or later as his literary ambitions began to grow. Not long after leaving the station, Clarke found work in Melbourne as a member of the literary staff of the
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Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke was born in London on the 24th of April, 1846 and died in 1881. His father was a barrister and his mother died a few months after his birth. In 1864, Clarke set off for
Melbourne, initially staying with his uncle. After a short stint working at a bank, he moved out to work
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made a similar statement to this when giving a visiting lecture in
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published a short article following Clarke's death stating their willingness to accept subscriptions in aid of his widow and children. They also released a memorial volume of Clarke's collected writings, sold for one guinea. They declared Clarke to be "the most brilliant man of letters this country
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throughout the issues, which likely played a part in the success of the magazine. The works ranged from the 'Sixpenny
Dreadful' class of stories through to works of the highest literary standard. This allowed the journal a wide readership and works that would appeal to a whole family or peer group.
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yet he was only able to write a few chapters before being thrown from his horse and fracturing his skull. In 1869 Clarke took on the editorship of Humbug and around the same time married Marian Dunn. Shortly after this, Clarke began work on His
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In the 1950s editorial changes were made to modernise the magazine for a changing audience. Crossword puzzles were introduced, as well as a children's page, recipes, and fashion articles. This left less room for fiction works and blurred the magazine's focus. As the readership began to decline the
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Australian periodicals that was willing to pay its contributors a competitive rate for their submissions. However, it was during this time that Campbell complained of the declining number of Australian writers able to produce quality work in the short story format, stating that
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for just under thirty years, from 1926 to 1955. During this period the opportunities for freelance short story and serial writers peaked, with
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was likely to include: a few serials headed by illustrations, a comic tale, half-a-dozen pages of advertisements, some full-page illustrations, several poems and short stories, a paper pattern illustration for a lady's frock, as well as a few non-fiction articles. The quality of the work varied
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readers were "mainly women, with limited literary tastes and expectations." Campbell endeavoured to develop continued relationships with the
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has been accused of aiding in the magazine's decline, but it is more likely the magazine failed due to a combination of issues, including changing habits in its readership and the magazine's dilution of its original concept and features in an attempt to move with the times.
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mixture of domestic work as well as syndicated fiction from overseas, in particular
England and the United States. Campbell took his work seriously and although the publication aimed for a wide audience he begrudged the "'academics and highbrows' for suggesting that the
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supplied popular fiction to all Australians by offering a wide range of fiction of varying genres - adventure, romance, mystery, and crime/detective stories set in Australian cities or in the Bush. A typical issue of
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