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The Australian Magazine; or, Compendium of Religious, Literary, and Miscellaneous Intelligence was Australia's first periodical[1], published in Sydney by Robert Howe, son of George Howe.[2] The magazine was established by Wesleyan Methodists Benjamin Carvosso, Walter Lawry and Ralph Mansfield against the wishes of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Committee.[3][4]

The periodical published thirteen monthly issues between 1 May 1821 and May 1822, when it announced it would become a quarterly due to ??,[5] however the only subsequent issue was September 1822.[dubiousdiscuss][2] The issues are bound into two volumes.

Ralph Mansfield went on to become the editor of the Sydney Gazette in 1829.[3]

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  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ a b J. V. Byrnes, 'Howe, George (1769 - 1821)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, MUP, 1966, pp 557-559. Retrieved 8 August 2009
  3. ^ a b [2]
  4. ^ [3]
  5. ^ Literature in New South Wales, p 68
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