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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]
Edward Kelly (December 1854 [a] – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police-murderer. One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police. Kelly was born and raised in rural Victoria, the third of eight children to Irish parents.
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 .
Ben Hall the Bushranger is a 1947 Australian historical novel by Frank Clune about the bushranger Ben Hall.It tried to focus on Hall's motivations. [1]He wrote this and Dark Outlaw as historical novels while researching his large non fiction book Wild Colonial Boys.
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 ...
The Kelly Hunters is a 1954 Australian book by Frank Clune about the hunt for bushranger Ned Kelly. [1] [2]The book sold very well. [3]The Sun-Herald said "Indefatigable researcher and skilled storyteller, Clune presents Ned Kelly neither as the persecuted hero of one legend nor the bloodthirsty ruffian of another, but as an intelligible and highly intelligent human being."
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.
A bushranger on horseback being chased by the police in Hard-pressed (Flight of a Bushranger), painted by S. T. Gill, c. 1853. The earliest documented use of the term appears in a February 1805 issue of The Sydney Gazette, which reports that a cart had been stopped between Sydney and Hawkesbury by three men "whose appearance sanctioned the suspicion of their being bush-rangers". [3]