Comments on: The coster and the larrikin http://bellanta.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/the-coster-and-the-larrikin/ Ideas, reviews and research from a nineteenth-century cultural historian Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:30:49 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Melissa Bellanta http://bellanta.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/the-coster-and-the-larrikin/#comment-634 Melissa Bellanta Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:35:12 +0000 http://bellanta.wordpress.com/?p=180#comment-634 Many thanks, Robin. There are some other poems, yes: I'll post them here, if you like. Or do you want me to send them to you? - M Many thanks, Robin. There are some other poems, yes: I’ll post them here, if you like. Or do you want me to send them to you?
- M

]]> By: Robin Hamilton http://bellanta.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/the-coster-and-the-larrikin/#comment-630 Robin Hamilton Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:11:52 +0000 http://bellanta.wordpress.com/?p=180#comment-630 Lucky you! Let me know if you find any larrikin poems -- other than "Fanny Flukem's Ball." There's also supposed to be a cache of them among the broadsides held by the Mitchell Library in Sydney. But I'm 3,000 miles away. :-( I'll try and backchannel you some stuff on John Hall a.k.a Jack Hall a.k.a Sam Hall. Actual early texts are rare -- the earliest is a fragment in the Place MSS in the British Library, and that only goes back to the 1780s -- but it originates well before the current extant texts appear. And the way it shifts into the music hall arena might interest you. Best, Robin Lucky you! Let me know if you find any larrikin poems — other than “Fanny Flukem’s Ball.” There’s also supposed to be a cache of them among the broadsides held by the Mitchell Library in Sydney. But I’m 3,000 miles away. :-( I’ll try and backchannel you some stuff on John Hall a.k.a Jack Hall a.k.a Sam Hall. Actual early texts are rare — the earliest is a fragment in the Place MSS in the British Library, and that only goes back to the 1780s — but it originates well before the current extant texts appear.
And the way it shifts into the music hall arena might interest you.

Best,

Robin

]]> By: Melissa Bellanta http://bellanta.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/the-coster-and-the-larrikin/#comment-629 Melissa Bellanta Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:27:16 +0000 http://bellanta.wordpress.com/?p=180#comment-629 Hey, I've just been trawling through the Dead Bird for the first time: that's a coincidence! I will look for the ballad of Jack Hall pronto - may be worth a future post. Many thanks - Melissa Hey, I’ve just been trawling through the Dead Bird for the first time: that’s a coincidence! I will look for the ballad of Jack Hall pronto – may be worth a future post. Many thanks – Melissa

]]> By: Robin Hamilton http://bellanta.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/the-coster-and-the-larrikin/#comment-628 Robin Hamilton Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:16:04 +0000 http://bellanta.wordpress.com/?p=180#comment-628 Interesting you mention Sam Hall, as he was himself a later development of the more subversive Jack Hall (of The Memoirs of the Right Villainous John Hall fame, which isn't by him in the first place), hung in London in 1707, before he moved onto the music hall boards. The earliest versions of the ballad still retain a strong element of the Street. More Dead Bird that Bulletin material. Robin Interesting you mention Sam Hall, as he was himself a later development of the more subversive Jack Hall (of The Memoirs of the Right Villainous John Hall fame, which isn’t by him in the first place), hung in London in 1707, before he moved onto the music hall boards.

The earliest versions of the ballad still retain a strong element of the Street.

More Dead Bird that Bulletin material.

Robin

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