Once-a-week
- Bib ID:
- 8312613
- Format:
- Journal
- Uniform Title:
- Once-a-week (Adelaide, S.A.)
- Description:
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- Victoria Square East, Adelaide : H. Hampson
- volumes : illustrations ; 38 cm
- Summary:
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Henry Hampson, Proprietor, the "Once-A-Week" Office, was born in Stretford, Lancashire, on 10 June 1860; he died in Glenelg, South Australia, on 26 October 1923. At the age of 17 he emigrated to Victoria for health reasons, and then moved to Adelaide 12 months later. From the advertisements in this publication he ran 'H. Hampson's Advertising Agency' offering 'free public inspection' for South Australian and Intercolonial newspapers, 'Advertisements received for any Paper throughout the World'. During December 1884 he moved from Victoria Square to Leigh Street.
Based on the surviving 52 issues of volume 6 of this 'First-Class Illustrated Family Paper, of Fact and Fiction Combined' self-described as the 'Best Family Story Paper Published in Australia' it appears the English Bradbury and Evans periodical (1859-1880) may have inspired the title, but the content is unblushingly American. That Australians felt a particular rapport with their American counterparts is indisputable, but the allure of these pages owes as much to a new-found literary addiction - the detective story. Many of the 'no less than four and frequently six, thrilling and fascinating continued stories' are firmly in the genre. There are the Tramp Detective, the Dude Detective, the Blind Detective, not to mention Old Weazel; New York's Keenest Detective, and Phil, the Policeman. There are criminous stories 'based on fact' and a plethora of serials of transgression in high places, such as 'The Curse of Sin', 'The Buried Bride!' and "For Love and Life, Or, The Guardian's Plot '. (Later in the decade, on the other side of the world, 'A Study in Scarlet' was to ride the crest of the same wave which has kept on rolling ever since.) While an Australian does appear as a plot device i.e. 'Charles Edwards, the handsome and wealthy widower from Australia' the colonial contributions are mainly (perhaps wholly) on the three or so advertisement pages in each issue. . --Based on bookseller's description.
- Notes:
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- Each issue includes two dramatic wood engraved illustrations (possibly reproduced from metal stereotype copies of the original blocks).
- National Library of Australia copy of vol. 6 is bound but the original boards are detached. It should be digitised before being rebound.
- Description based on: Vol. 6, no. 1 (May 10, 1884); title from caption.
- Frequency:
- Weekly
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Hampson, Henry, 1860-1923, editor
- Also Titled:
- Once a week
- Copyright:
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