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JSA 2016 Seminar

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The Johnson Society of Australia IncAnnual SeminarSaturday 30 July 201611:00 am—4:00 pm  (Registration from 10:30 am) The English Speaking Union146 Toorak Rd West  South Yarra$30 members and $35 non-members Includes tea,…

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Entertaining program for JSA Annual Seminar

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The JSA’s 2015 Seminar will be held at The English Speaking Union, 146 Toorak Road West, South Yarra, on Saturday July 4, 2015 with an  entertaining day of Johnsonian and eighteenth century enjoyment.

Registration is at 10.30 and the fee for the seminar, including lunch and teas, is $30 for members and $35 for guests.

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Dr Gordon Turnbull with Michelle Levine and John Byrne outside Tonic House

Our Patron does us proud

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The audience for the 21st David Fleeman Memorial Lecture on October 24 at Tonic House, Melbourne, were treated to a masterly performance by our Patron, Dr Gordon Turnbull .

His lecture, “Keeping Boswell in Good Repair” gave us ample evidence of the prodigious talent which has taken him from a journalist and student in Australia to custodian of the great Boswell archives at Yale.

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JSA authors have been busy

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Professor Tim Entwisle: Sprinter and Sprummer: Australia’s Changing Seasons

John Wiltshire: The Hidden Jane Austen

Paul Tankard: Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell

Bronwen Hickmann: Mary Gaunt, Independent Colonial Woman

JSA members have been busy writing and publishing books, as this article shows:

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Distinguished career of Gordon Turnbull

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The Patron of the Johnson Society of Australia, and our 2014 Fleeman Memorial Lecturer, Australian-born Gordon Turnbull has been since 1997 General Editor of the Yale Boswell Editions.

In this capacity.  he succeeds some of the almost legendary names of eighteenth-century editorial scholarship, among them Frederick Pottle, Frank Brady, and Marshall Waingrow. Continuing their work, he oversees a global editorial team bringing to publication selections of the vast archive of James Boswell’s private papers, most of which had been suppressed by Boswell’s descendants and were rediscovered only in the twentieth century.

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