The Bread and Cheese Club was a Melbourne-based Australian 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.
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:
O'Leary, Patrick I. (1939), The bread and cheese book: A selection of verses
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
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Sources
Malloch, H.W. (ed.) (1943). Fellows all: The chronicles of the Bread and Cheese Club. Melbourne: Bread and Cheese Club. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
"Bread and Cheese Club". NLA Catalogue. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
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