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Pat Finn Pat Finn i(A151502 works by)
Born: Established: ca. 1856 ; Died: Ceased: 1916 Woollahra, Sydney Eastern Harbourside, Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
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1 Miss Nellie Stewart: The Idol of the Australian Public i "A hundred thousand welcomes home, Sweet Nell!", Pat Finn , 1909 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Variety Theatre Archive : Popular Culture Entertainment: 1850-1930 The Sydney Sportsman , 23 June 1909; (p. 3)
1 She Pat Finn , 1901 single work musical theatre pantomime burlesque

Adapted from H. Rider Haggard's classic adventure/lost civilisation story She, this Pat Finn burlesque-style pantomime was possibly subtitled 'The White Queen of the Amahagger.'

Haggard's original story, serialized in 1886 and 1887, is a first-person narrative that follows the journey of young Cambridge professor Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. There, they encounter a primitive race of natives and a mysterious white queen, Ayesha, who reigns as the all-powerful "She", or "She-who-must-be-obeyed". In this work, Rider Haggard developed the conventions of the Lost World sub-genre, which many later authors emulated.

[Source: Australian Variety Theatre Archive]
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