![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn’t until the 1880s that women were admitted when the Buonarotti Society allowed women artists to become members. The Argus, Saturday 19 June 1869, p.1s, column 4 The Argus reported a year later of their first AGM. Members included Marcus Clarke, author of For the term of his natural life, poets George Gordon McCrae, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall and writer Patrick Moloney. The objective of the club was to bring together Literary men and those connected with literature, art or science. ![]() ‘Bohemia emerged in Melbourne in tandem with the expansion and professionalisation of the press, driven by the desire for culture by the growth in a literate, cashed-up market.’ (1)Īustralia’s first bohemian club, The Yorick Club, began in a cafe in Bourke Street 1868. There were a number of clubs in early Melbourne, frequented by novelists, journalists, academics, poets and painters, which nurtured free thinking and self-expression. a person with artistic or intellectual tendencies or pretensions who lives and acts without regard for conventional rules of behaviour ( Macquarie dictionary online). ![]()
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