1.0: Blog's Title: PART II. On Colonial / Post-Colonial Australian Literary And Dramatic Texts: Notes By Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, Circa June 2023 To July 2023.
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2.0: Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 25 May 1803, London, England to: 18 January 1873 (aged 69), Torquay, England, who was the Colonial Secretary of State, 1858–1859—still remembered for coining phrases: "the pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword" and "dweller on the threshold": Edmund Bulwer-Lytton was definitely 19th-century literature's "Forgotten Man", until he was resurrected by Joseph Conrad's mentioning of him as the author of choice for "the children of the sea": the folk who crewed the clipper-ships during the last third of the nineteenth century. Nine texts of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's are listed directly beneath, from a large œuvre, and a text on literary criticism regarding Edward Bulwer-Lytton's texts.
2.1: Pelham, Or The Adventures Of A Gentleman, circa 1828, in two volumes; A. circa 1828, New York: Cassell And Company, 415 pages, 411 pages, 19 centimeters.
2.2: Eugene Aram, circa 1832—in three volumes; A. J. And J. Harper, First American edition, Volume One: 219 pages, Volume Two: 207 pages, 12mo, 7" x 7½".2.3: The Last Days Of Pompeii, circa 1834—in three volumes; A. a Project Gutenberg of Australia e-book reference: 1401241h.html, first posted: circa March 2014 and most recent up-date: circa Mar 2014.2.4: Harold, The Last Of The Saxon Kings, circa 1848; A. circa 1865,Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott And Company, 402 pages.2.5: The Caxtons, A Family Picture, circa 1849; A. circa 1849, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 326 pages; B. 1 December 2013, Start Classics, 597 pages, ISBN-13: 9781627939089.2.6: My Novel, circa 1853; A. 26 November 2004, e-book number: 7714,copy-right status: Public domain in the United States Of America.
2.7: A Strange Story, Complete, circa 1862; A. Project Gutenberg e-book number: 7701, release: 16 March 2009, last up-dated: 28 August 2016.
2.8: Vril: The Power Of The Coming Race, circa May 1871; A. William Blackwood And Sons, hard-cover, 292 pages, OCLC: 7017241.
2.9: Rienzi, The Last Of The Roman Tribunes, circa 1835—that was adapted in to opera, viz. Rienzi, Der Letzte Der Tribunen, circa 1842, by Richard Wagner; A. circa 1835, New York: A.L. Burt, 448 pages.
2.10: A Dark And Stormy Œuvre: Crime, Magic And Power In The Novels Of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, circa 2015, by David Huckvale; A.11 December 2015, McFarland, 264 pages, ISBN-10: 1476622795, ISBN-13: 9781476622798.
3.0: Anna Maria Bunn, circa 1808, Ireland to: 19 September 1889, St.Omer, New South Wales, Australia: Anna Maria Bunn's text of circa 1838 is the first Australian novel printed and published within main-land Australia, viz. at Sydney. Further, the text is known as the first Australian novel written by a woman, however, the claims are made doubtfully. Anna Maria Bunn, a some-what contrived sounding name, is not listed in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. There appears to be no LCCN or ISBN registration numbers for Anna Maria Bunn's text. To make a leap of connection on her text: The Guardian: A Tale, circa 1838, given the similarity of the title of the texts, the so-called more recent text: The Guardian: A Tale Of Andrew Murray, circa 2014, by the British-Columbian author, Jack Whyte, circa 1940-, could be an edited version of the Scottish history that Anna Maria Bunn or another author, for example Catherine Spence, has written—due to the large number of Scots in Australia during the 19th-century, but that is a point made irrespective of the fact, Anna Maria Bunn is noted to have been born in Ireland. The hypothesis is that Jack Whyte, with Australian ties, has illegally re-published, editing and ghost-writing to re-fashion the narrative, such as by being a text published by a man instead of by a woman, or a fictional text, (of the ilk of George R.R. Martin's Game Of Thrones series), instead of an historical text. The text allegedly by Jack Whyte is Scottish with nationalistic sympathies—instead of English or the supposedly united British. It remains a point of contention in Australia, where the English are considered the discoverers and owners of the "Great Southern Land", when such titles are more truthfully credited to the Scots, the inclusion of Jack Whyte's home, Canada, is recognition Australia was part Nova Scotia, a generic title further shared with regions of the United States Of America, Mexico and South America. Such history is greater than a hoax and fraud of publishing and contest between Scottish and English, because the invention and use of hand-held rifles and pistols is further thought to be properly Scottish—or should I write: "Shottish"?, a fact of which others, possibly of the fire-brand Asian back-grounds, aim to keep either wrongly accredited or a matter of stum.
3.1: The Guardian: A Tale, circa 1838; A. Sydney: printed by J. Spilsbury, 405 pages, 20 centimeters; B. 1 January 1994, Canberra: Mulini Press, 152 pages, ASIN: B0034LPB0G—this text is listed by the National Library of Australia.
3.2: Further note "Chapters 2 and 3 From Anna Maria Bunn's The Guardian: A Tale is in Her Selection: Writings By Nineteenth Century Australian Women, circa 1988, editor: Lynne Spender, Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin, pages 22–36, ISBN-10: 0140112391, ISBN-13: 9780140112399.
3.3: The Guardian: A Tale Of Andrew Murray, circa 2014—by Jack Whyte, circa 1940-; A. Toronto: Viking, x, 546 pages, ISBN-10: 0670068489, ISBN-13: 9780670068487.
4.0: Ellen Davitt, Marie Antoinette Hélène Léontine Heseltine, 1812 Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, to: 6 January 1879 Fitzroy, Victoria—some-what the member of a "literary family", Ellen Davitt was a sister-in-law of the British writer Anthony Trollope, known for the six Barsetshire novels. Ellen Davitt for some years, from circa 1861, made her living as a public speaker through-out Victoria, lecturing on such wide-ranging topics as: The Rise And Progress Of The Fine Arts In Spain; The Influence Of Art; Colonisation Versus Convictism; The Vixens Of Shakespeare. Dr.Sussex says: Ellen Davitt was positioning herself as, what would now be phrased ‘a public intellectual’, an extraordinary effort at the time. Six of Ellen Davitt's publications are listed directly beneath.
4.1: Edith Travers—nil information available.
4.2: Force And Fraud: A Tale Of The Bush, circa 1865; A. circa 2015, Clan Destine Press, ISBN-13: 978-0-9924925-8-8.
4.3: A Souvenir Of Havanna, circa 1866, a prose travel—appears in: The Australian Journal, Number 34, 21 April 1866, pages 540-541.
4.4: The Highlander's Revenge: Story Of The Early Australian Settlers, circa 1867—short story that appears in: The Australian Journal, 31 August volume 3(105), circa 1867, pages 10-12; Coppertales: A Journal Of Rural Arts, Number 6, circa 2000, pages 31-40.
4.5: A House To Let, circa 1868—in The Australian Journal Volume 3(126), 25 January 1868 periodical issue, pages 345-349, written by Mrs. Arthur Davitt, viz. Ellen Davitt.
4.6: Lodging In A Christian Family, circa 1993—an extract novel crime: Force And Fraud: A Tale Of The Bush, appears in: Mean Streets: A Quarterly Journal Of Crime, Mystery And Detection, number 9, circa July 1993, pages 46-48.
5.0: Francis Vidal, Mary Theresa Vidal, née Johnson, 23 June 1815, Torrington, Devon, England to: 19 November 1873 (aged 58), Sutton, Suffolk, England; wrote under the pseudonym Francis Vidal; regarded as an "Australian–British writer", or a British emigré Australian: six of her texts are listed directly beneath.
5.1: Tales For The Bush, circa 1845; A. Francis & John Rivington.
5.2: Bengala, Or Some Time Ago, circa 1860; A. circa 1860, London: John W. Parker And Son, about 293 pages.
5.3: Esther Merle, And Other Tales, 1 January 1847; A. ASIN: B0018GD16K.5.4: Florence Templar, A Tale, circa 1856; A. iv, 295 pages; B. 1 March 2011, British Library, Historical Print Editions, 328 pages, ISBN-13: 9781241382896.
5.5: Ellen Raymond: Or, Ups And Down, circa 1858; A. Smith, Elder and Company, 365 pages.
5.6: Deb Clinton, The Smuggler's Daughter, circa 1866; A. circa 1866, William Macintish, 117 pages.
6.0: John Richard Houlding, 22 April 1822 to: 25 April 1918: invited by John Fairfax, Richard Houlding wrote for the Sydney Mail as 'Old Boomerang'; his early contributions were published as Australian Tales And Sketches From Real Life, circa 1868, London. At Sydney, circa 1843, Richard Houlding married Elizabeth, née Hannaford; he lived quietly at his home, Hawthorn, Woolwich, and supported such charitable institutions as the Vernon training ship for destitute boys. Further, he was a Methodist lay preacher, a founder of the New South Wales Temperance Alliance and twice declined to stand for parliament.
6.1: Australian Capers, circa 1867; A.
London, the was re-printed as Christopher Cockle's Australian Experiences, circa 1913, Sydney—the text records the down-fall of an inexperienced migrant and his conversion to Christianity.
6.2: Rural And City Life: Or, The Fortunes Of The Stubble Family, circa 1870—partly autobiographical; A. circa 2003, Sydney: University of Sydney Library, Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service.
6.3: Investing Uncle Ben's Legacy, A Tale Of Mining And Matrimonial Speculations, circa 1876; A. circa 1876, Melbourne: George Robertson, viii, 226 pages, 19 centimeters.
6.4: The Pioneer Of A Family; Or, Adventures Of A Young Governess, circa 1881;
6.5: Launching Away; Or, Roger Larksway's Strange Mission, circa 1882; A. circa 1883, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 360 pages, 1 leaf of plates, illustrated, 20 centimeters.
6.6: In The Depths Of The Sea, circa 1885; A. circa 1885, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 378 pages, 1 leaf of plates, illustrated, 19 centimeters.
6.7: A Flood That Led To Fortune, circa 1886; A. circa 1886, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 372 pages, 7 leaves of plates, illustrated.
6.8: Australian Tales And Sketches From Real Life, circa 1868; A. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston; Sydney: John L. Sherriff, viii, 416 pages, 18 centimeters.
7.0: Catherine Spence, Catherine Helen Spence, 31 October 1825, Melrose, Scotland, to: 3 April 1910 (aged 84), Norwood, South Australia; ten of her texts are listed directly beneath.
7.1: Mr. Hogarth's Will, circa 1854;
A. circa 1988 [1985], Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin Books Australia, xvii, 439 pages, 20 centimeters, ISBN-10: 0140112332; B. 17 November 2011, Bod Third Party, paper-back, 456 pages, 0.92 inch x 7.81 inch, ISBN: 9783842454934.7.2: Clara Morison: A Tale Of South Australia During The Gold Fever,
circa 1854—Catherine Spence received forty pounds for it, but was charged ten pounds for abridging it to fit in the publisher's standard format. A. circa 1854, John W. Parker and Son, 288 pages; B. circa 1986, Netley, South Australia: Wakefield Press, xvi, 286 pages, 19 centimeters, paper-back, ISBN-10: 0949268364, ISBN-10: 0949268372; C. circa 1971, Adelaide: Rigby, facsimile re-print of 1854 edition—introduced by Susan Magarey.7.3: Tender And True: A Colonial Tale, circa 1856; A. circa 1856, Elder Smith, Two Volumes, 20 centimeters;
B. a recent facsimile edition: 19 October 2019, Hard-Press, 414 pages, ISBN-10: 0461368439, ISBN-13: 9780461368437.
7.4: Handfasted, circa 1984; A. circa 1984, Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin, paper-back, ix, 378 pages, 20 centimeters, ISBN-10: 0140075054.
7.5: The Author's Daughter, circa 1869—the text was published in three volumes: iv, 312 (last blank), iv, 322 and iv, 300 (last blank); A. circa 1868, R. Bentley, 313 pages.
7.6: An Agnostic's Progress From The Known To The Unknown, circa
1884; A. circa 1884, London: Williams and Norgate, 266 pages, 20 centimeters.
7.7: A Week In The Future, circa 1889;
A. 1 January 1888, 136 pages, hard-cover; B. Project Gutenberg of Australia, e-book number: 0603381h.html.
7.8: The Laws We Live Under, circa 1880; A. circa 1880 [first edition], [Adelaide]: Government Printer for the Education Department, duodecimo, 119 pages, 17 centimeters: National Library of Australia Bibliographical Number: 1100568.
7.9: State Children In Australia: A History Of Boarding Out And Its Developments, circa 1909—a text principally dealing with the work of Emily Clark, this book was used by the British Home Secretary when at the end of her reign Queen Victoria asked him to formulate Child Laws of Britain that up until that time were non-existent; A. circa 1907, Adelaide: Vardon and Sons Limited, 147 pages, 5 leaves of plates, illustrated, 19 centimeters.
7.10: Catherine Helen Spence: An Autobiography, circa 1910—completed posthumously by Catherine Spence's friend Jeanne Young, who worked from diaries; A. circa 1910, edited by J. F. Young, re-printed from "The Register", Adelaide: W.K. Thomas And Company, 101 pages.
Figure II. A Photographic Portrait Of Catherine Spence, circa 1880, from: <http://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+7106>.
8.0: Henry Kingsley, 2 January 1830, Northamptonshire, England, to: 24 May 1876, 24 May 1876 (aged 46), Sussex, England.
8.1: The Recollections Of Geoffry Hamlyn, circa 1859; A. circa 1859, Boston: Ticknor And Fields, 534 pages.
8.2: Ravenshoe, circa 1861; A. circa 1861, Macmillan And Company, xv, 434 pages.
8.3: Austin Elliot, circa 1863; A.
Boston: Ticknor And Fields, x, 354 pages.
8.4: Hillyars And The Burtons: A Tale Of Two Families, circa 1865—partly set in Australia, the text is Henry Kingsley's second Australian novel; A. circa 1865, London: Chapman And Hall, 466 pages.
8.5: Tales Of Old Travel, circa 1869;
A. circa 1869, London: Macmillan And Company, 396 pages.
8.6: The Lost Child, circa 1871; A. circa 1871, Macmillan And Company, xviii, 44 pages.
8.7: Reginald Hetherege, circa 1874;
A. circa 1874, London: Richard Bentley and Son, three volumes: 284, 282, 292 pages, 19 centimeters.
8.8: Number Seventeen, A Novel, circa 1875; A. circa 1875, London: Chatto and Windus, 294 pages, 20 centimeters.
8.9: The Mystery Of The Island, circa 1877; A. circa 1877, London: William Mullan And Son, x, 270 pages.
9.0: Adam Lindsay Gordon, 19 October 1833, Charlton Kings, England, to: 24 June 1870 (aged 36), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
9.1: The Poems Of Adam Lindsay Gordon, circa 1912—includes Sea Spray And Smoke Drift and Bush Ballads And Galloping Rhymes, with illustrations by G.D. Giles, London, T.N. Foulis, 348 pages.9.2: Adam Lindsay Gordon—The Man And The Myth, circa 1978, by Geoffrey Hutton, London: Faber & Faber, ISBN-13: 9780571109210.
10.0: Mary Fortune, circa 1833 to circa 1911—was an Australian writer who published under the pseudonym "Waif Wander" or "W.W.". According to New Zealand writer and academic Lucy Sussex, no other woman, with the exception of the American Anna Katharine Green, wrote as much 19th-century crime fiction.
10.1: The Detective's Album was serialized for forty years in The Australian Journal from circa 1868 to circa 1908: seven of the stories were published circa 1871, as a book viz. The Detective's Album: Tales Of The Australian Police. Mark Sinclair Stories: The Detective's Dream, circa 1886; Heatherville, circa 1883; Hereditary, circa 1877; Illilliwa, circa 1883; The Murder at Ozer's, circa 1883; The Red Room, circa 1868; The Spirits of the Tower, circa 1883; The St. Johns, circa 1883; B. The Detective's Album: Stories Of Crime And Mystery From Colonial Australia, circa 2003,
Shelburne, Ontario, Canada: a battered silicon dispatch box, Natiobal Library of Australia, 228 pages, illustrated, 1 map, 23 centimeters, ISBN-13: 1552463567.
10.2: Twenty-Six Years Ago; Or, The Diggings From '55, a vivid if unreliable memoir, later re-published in The Fortunes Of Mary Fortune, circa 1989.
10.3: Three Murder Mysteries, circa 2009, introduction by Lucy Sussex, Mulini Press, 74 pages, 21 centimeters,
ISBN-13: 9780980545586.
10.4: Bertha's Legacy, circa 1866;
10.5: Clyzia The Dwarf: A Romance, circa 1866;
10.6: The Secrets Of Balbrooke, circa 1866;
10.7: The Bushranger's Autobiography, circa 1872;
10.8: Dan Lyon's Doom, circa 1884;
10.9: Dora Carleton: A Tale Of Australia, circa 1886.
11.0: Louisa Atkinson, Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson, 25 February 1834, Oldbury, near Sutton Forest, New South Wales, Australia, to: 28 April 1872 (aged 38), Swanton, near Sutton Forest, New South Wales, Australia.
11.1: Gertrude The Emigrant: A Tale Of Colonial Life By An Australian Lady, circa 1857; A. circa 1998, re-print, School of English and Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, University College, ADFA, 376 pages ISBN-10: 0731703634, ISBN-13: 9780731703630.
11.2: Cowanda, The Veteran's Grant: An Australian Story, circa 1859; A.
circa 1859, J.R. Clarke (356 George Street), 135 pages, OCLC / WorldCat: 24898492.
11.3: Debatable Ground Of The Carlillawarra Claimants (serialised in The Sydney Mail, 30 March 1861 – 7 September 1861); A. circa 1992, Canberra: Mulini Press, paper-back, viii, 117 pages, 2 pages illustrated, 25 centimeters, ISBN-10: 0949910244.
11.4: Myra was serialised in The Sydney Mail, 27 February 1864 to 23 April 1864; A. circa 1988, Canberra: Mulini Press, xi, 53 pages, 21 centimeters, ISBN-10: 0949910171.
11.5: Tom Hellicar's Children, was
serialised in The Sydney Mail, 4 March 1871; A. circa 1988, Canberra: Mulini Press, v, 103 pages, illustrations; 22 centimeters, ISBN-10: 0949910104, ISBN-13: 9780949910103.
11.6: Bush Home, was serialised in The Sydney Mail—there is no further information on this title I can locate through the Internet.
11.7: Tressa's Resolve, was serialised in The Sydney Mail, 31 August 1872 – 7 December 1872); A. circa 2004, Canberra: Mulini Press, viii, 96 page, illustration, 26 centimeters, ISBN-10: 0975178474.
11.8: Xanthosia Atkinsonia was described circa 1861 by Ferdinand von Mueller, but the botanist's approach to naming a species of plant arguably over-looks the poetic qualities of it, such as in this case, the flower resembles four white angels on a cross; the four Evangelists viz. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and four corners or winds of the world. The specific epithet, atkinsoniana, honours Louisa Atkinson who collected the specimen type: "In montibus coeruleis Novae Austro-Cambriae prope amnem Grose stirpem detexerunt L. Atkinson et W. Woolls"; allegedly L.Atkinson and W.Woolls discovered the plant near the Grose River atthe Blue Mountains of New South Wales.
Figure I. A Photo Of Xanthosia Atkinsonia, 12 November 2006, 21:54, by Kevin Thiele, Perth, Australia.
12.0: Benjamin Leopold Farjeon, 12 May 1838 to 23 July 1903.
12.1: Shadows On The Snow: A Christmas Story, circa 1865; A. circa 1866, Dunedin: William Hay, ii, 125 pages, 1 leaf of plate: illustrated, 19 centimeters; available online at the National Library of Australia: <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-52818629>.
12.2: Grif: A Story Of Australian Life, circa 1870; A. 9 June 2014, Gutenberg Press e-book 45919.12.3: Jessie Trim, circa 1870.
12.4: Great Porter Square, circa 1884.
12.5: In A Silver Sea, circa 1886.
12.6: Aaron The Jew, circa 1894.
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