Bread and Cheese Club
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The Bread and Cheese Club was a Melbourne
-based Australia
n art and literary society
and publisher
. It was founded in June 1938 with the purpose of fostering “Mateship, Art and Letters”. Its membership was all male. It promoted Australian writers and published about 40 books, as well as a magazine. The person principally involved in founding and running the organisation was book collector
J.K. Moir, the club’s “Knight Grand Cheese” from its foundation until 1952. Following Moir’s death in 1958 the club went into a decline and eventually closed in 1988.
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
-based Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n art and literary society
Literary society
A literary society is a group of people interested in literature. In the modern sense, this refers to a society that wants to promote one genre of literature or a specific writer. Modern literary societies typically promote research about their chosen author or genre, publish newsletters, and hold...
and publisher
Publishing
Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information—the activity of making information available to the general public...
. It was founded in June 1938 with the purpose of fostering “Mateship, Art and Letters”. Its membership was all male. It promoted Australian writers and published about 40 books, as well as a magazine. The person principally involved in founding and running the organisation was book collector
Book collecting
Book collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever books are of interest to a given individual collector. The love of books is bibliophilia, and someone who loves to read, admire, and collect...
J.K. Moir, the club’s “Knight Grand Cheese” from its foundation until 1952. Following Moir’s death in 1958 the club went into a decline and eventually closed in 1988.
Publications
Bohemia, subtitled "the all-Australian literary magazine", was published from 1939 to 1967. Other publications, mainly of poetry and personal tributes issued in the 1940s, include:- Allan, J. AlexJames Alexander AllanJames Alexander Allan was an Australian poet and local historian.Allan was born in Melbourne. He was educated at Alfred Crescent State School, North Fitzroy and the Model School, and was a Commonwealth public servant from 1942 to 1950, as well as in the early years of the century...
. (1940). Revolution. - Anon. (1940). Catalogue: Australian art and literature exhibition, sponsored by the Bread and Cheese Club.
- Anon. (1942). John Shaw Neilson: a memorial.
- Anon. (1946). Exhibition by fellows of the Bread and Cheese Club Art Group: at the Myer Gallery, from 2 July until 13 July 1946.
- Anon. (1947). An English wreath for Gordon's grave.
- Anon. (1955). Miles Franklin: a tribute, by some of her friends.
- Archer, A. Lee. (1941). Tom Collins (Joseph Furphy) as I knew him.
- Barrett, CharlesCharles Leslie BarrettCharles Leslie Barrett was an Australian naturalist, journalist, author and ornithologist.Born in Hawthorn, Victoria, he was a foundation member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union in 1901 and editor of its journal the Emu, 1910-1916...
. (1942). Art of the Australian Aboriginal. - Brogden, Stanley, (1941). Tribute.
- Brogden, Stanley. (1942). The Australian freelance. (Several editions published).
- Challman, Oscar. (1967). Tributes in verse.
- Cobb, Victor E. (1940). The etched work of Victor Cobb.
- Croll, Robert Henderson, (1946). An autobituary.
- Doorly, Gerald S. (1943). The songs of the "Morning". (Words by John D. Morrison).
- Fleay, DavidDavid FleayDavid Howells Fleay was an Australian naturalist who pioneered the captive breeding of endangered species, and was the first person to breed the platypus in captivity....
. (1947). Gliders of the gum trees: the most beautiful and enchanting Australian marsupials. - Grahame, Jim. (1940). Call of the bush.
- Gross, Alan. (1948). Attainment: being a critical study of the literature of federation: with bibliography.
- Lapthorne, Alice M. (1946). Mildura calling. (Foreword by Bernard Cronin).
- Law, Marjorie J. (1945). Rain songs.
- Malloch, Harry. (1940). A brief history of the Bread and Cheese Club.
- Malloch, H.W. (ed). (1943). Fellows all: The chronicles of the Bread and Cheese Club.
- Malloch, H.W. (1951). Brief character sketch of John Kinmont Moir.
- Mawdesley, Christina. (1944). The corroboree tree and twelve shorter poems of Melbourne's early days of settlement.
- Mountford, C.P.Charles P. MountfordCharles Pearcy Mountford was an Australian anthropologist and photographer. He is known for his pioneering work on indigenous Australians and his depictions and descriptions of their art.-Works:* The Art of Albert Namatjira...
(1951). Art of Albert Namatjira. - Pitts, Judith. (1943). Cold hearthstone.
- Swan, Robert A. (1946). Argonauts returned, and other poems. (Foreword by R.H. Croll).
- Tierney, T. V. (1942). Nerangi Mundowie. (Lines written on viewing etching by Victor Cobb).
- Wannan, William. (1943). The corporal's story.
- West, Harvey. (1945). Belsen.
- Wye, W.J. (1941). Bush minstrelsy.