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The Age said "the book bears signs of having been hastily put together. Mr Clune's facile style is a little too facile." However the reviewer thought it was also "very entertaining." [3] The Sydney Morning Herald review called Clune "Australia's cliche expert" and listed the book's cliches in its review. [4]
E. W. Hornung bibliography Novels ↙ 21 Stories ↙ 56 Collections ↙ 8 Poems ↙ 3 Plays ↙ 3 Non-fiction ↙ 2 References and footnotes Ernest William Hornung (professionally known as E. W. Hornung; 1866–1921), was an English poet and writer. From a Hungarian background, Hornung was educated at Uppingham School ; as a result of poor health he left the school in December 1883 to travel ...
Among the last bushrangers was the Kelly gang in Victoria, led by Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous bushranger. After murdering three policemen in a shootout in 1878, the gang was outlawed, and after raiding towns and robbing banks into 1879, earned the distinction of having the largest reward ever placed on the heads of bushrangers.
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It is not to be confused with the 1834 play The Bushrangers or the 1854 play The Bushranger, or the Last Crime. The play was published in book for in 1971, the year the play was first performed in Australia (at a high school). A reviewer said "I think it is unlikely to find many serious producers.
Thomas Law (c. 1850 – 21 September 1878), known by the alias Midnight, [1] was an Australian bushranger active in New South Wales and Queensland. He served as the inspiration for Captain Starlight, the main character in Rolf Boldrewood 's 1882 bushranging novel Robbery Under Arms .
The Bushranger, or the Last Crime is a 1854 Australian stage play. It debuted in Sydney in April 1854. [1] The play was about a fictitious bushranger, Charles Graves, and included "a grand series of equestrian feats, bare backed riding." [2]
Martin Cash (baptised 10 October 1808 – 26 August 1877) was a notorious Irish-Australian convict bushranger, known for escaping twice from Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land. His 1870 autobiography, The Adventures of Martin Cash , ghostwritten by James Lester Burke, also a former convict, became a best seller in Australia .