President’s Report August 2018
With the current issue of the Southern Johnsonian, the Johnson Society of Australia enters its 25th year and we remain a strong organisation, maintaining at least four events each year.…
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With the current issue of the Southern Johnsonian, the Johnson Society of Australia enters its 25th year and we remain a strong organisation, maintaining at least four events each year.…
2017 Fleeman Lecture The 2017 Fleeman Lecture will be held on Saturday 11 November, beginning at 3:00 pm following the AGM. This year's distinguished lecturer is Professor Karen Green from…
We are pleased to advise that Professor Kate Burridge's Fleeman Lecture, 'Magnificence of Promises': Samuel Johnson and advertising has now been published. This is a fascinating exploration of the early…
Professor Emeritus John Carroll on Dr Johnson and the Great Anglo Tradition 5:00 pm, Saturday 15th October Tonic House, 386 Flinders Lane Melbourne John Carroll’s work focuses on culture, and…
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,…
The annual visit for members and friends of the Johnson Society to see examples of eighteenth century art will take place at the National Gallery of Victoria on the afternoon…
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.
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.
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:
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.