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Author Morrison, Elizabeth, 1936- author.

Title David Syme : man of the Age / Elizabeth Morrison
Published Clayton, Victoria, Australia : Monash University Publishing ; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia : State Library of Victoria, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Biography
Biography
Contents About the author; Front matter; Title page; Copyright and imprint information; Opening quotes; CONTENTS; Contents; List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; List of abbreviations; Preface and acknowledgments; PART I -- PRELUDE; Ch 1. The legacy of David Syme; Ch 2. David and his brothers; Ch 3. David and Ebenezer; Ch 4. Joining Ebenezer at the Age; PART II -- SUPPORTING A SISTER-IN-LAW; Ch 5. 'I felt it to be my duty'; Ch 6. 'Beginning to make progress'; Ch 7. 'Business is good but money scarce'; Ch 8. 'The Age has just scored a tremendous Victory'; PART III -- NEGOTIATING WITH A NEPHEW
Ch 9. 'I am the man who has made the firm a success'Ch 10. 'Expedition is everything in newspaper work'; Ch 11. 'Everything going on well'; Ch 12. 'Neither pleasure nor profit in continuing our partnership'; PART IV -- A FREE HAND; Ch 13. 'I am not prepared to make any compromise whatever'; Ch 14. 'I am sending forth on their travels my two youngest sons'; Ch 15. 'I will see the thing through'; Afterwords; Appendix A: Newspapers and periodicals published by the Age business under David Syme; Appendix B: David Syme's personal publications; Sources; Index
Summary In Australia, from Victoria's goldrush of the 1850s to Melbourne's boom of the 1880s and bust-to-recovery of the 1890s, newspapers dominated the Australian publishing scene. Uniquely, they provided local, intercolonial, and international news; magazine content from the popular to the intellectual; and the latest literature, especially novels in serial installments. ËBy the 1870s, the Melbourne Age newspaper dominated the journalistic stage. In the 1880s, its circulation was far in excess of any other daily throughout all British colonial possessions. Its proprietor, the driven and talented im
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Subject Syme, David, 1827-1908.
SUBJECT Syme, David, 1827-1908 fast
Age (Melbourne, Vic.) -- History
Age (Melbourne, Vic.) fast
Subject Journalists -- Australia -- Biography
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
Journalists
Australia
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781922235367
1922235369