Letters

Passions of a Mighty Heart: Selected letters of G.W.L. Marshall-Hall edited by Suzanne Robinson

Item: Passions of a Mighty Heart
Author: John Arnold

by John Arnold •

August 2016, no. 383

Lyrebird Press $55 pb, 240 pp, 9780734037800

Letters

Passions of a Mighty Heart: Selected letters of G.W.L. Marshall-Hall edited by Suzanne Robinson

by John Arnold •

August 2016, no. 383

George Marshall-Hall was a towering figure both physically and intellectually in Melbourne in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first of the twentieth. Standing six-foot-three in his socks, the English-born and -educated musician was appointed the inaugural Ormond Professor of Music at the University of Melbourne in 1890. Following his arrival from London, he soon made friends with kindred bohemian spirits such as Lionel and Norman Lindsay, and with artists Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton, regularly camping with them on their plein air painting expeditions.

John Arnold

John Arnold recently retired from Monash University after twenty-three years with the National Centre for Australian Studies. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash. He was the co-editor (with John Hay) of the four-volume Bibliography of Australian Literature (2001–08) and author of The Fanfrolico Press: Satyrs, Fauns and Fine Books (2008). He edits the La Trobe Journal.