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Richard Davis Richard Davis i(A70781 works by) (a.k.a. Richard Perceval Davis)
Born: Established: 1935
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India,
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South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia, ;
Gender: Male
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2 y separately published work icon Varieties of Vice-Regal Life William Thomas Denison , London : Longmans, Green , 1870 6729171 1870 single work autobiography

"Denison was Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania between 1846 and 1855, and Governor of New South Wales and Governor-General from 1855 to 1861, when he became Governor of Madras. Only the first volume of Varieties of Vice-Regal Life refers to his life in Australia. It consists of transcripts of his letters to relatives and friends and to a lesser extent, officials, in England, and extracts from letters written in journal form by his wife Caroline, addressed to her family. Denison justifies the use of letters to form a record of his life by stating, in his preface, that they give 'a truthfulness that can never be attributed to mere reminiscences' and that they can provide different viewpoints of circumstances and events. The letters are largely allowed to speak for themselves, but are linked by some retrospective comment by way of explanation or summary" (Walsh and Hooton 52-3).

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Walsh, Kay and Joy Hooton. Australian Autobiographical Narratives : An Annotated Bibliography. Canberra : Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, University College, ADFA and National Library of Australia, 1993.
1 y separately published work icon Irish-Australian Studies : Papers Delivered at the Eighth Irish-Australian Conference, Hobart July 1995 Richard Davis (editor), Peter Moore (editor), Anne-Maree Whitaker (editor), Jennifer Livett (editor), Sydney : Crossing Press , 1996 Z990152 1996 anthology poetry
1 Golden Australia : a century on Richard Davis , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 1 1992; (p. 66-68)
— Review of Writing of the Eighteen Nineties : Short Stories, Verses and Essays 1991 anthology short story prose poetry
1 y separately published work icon Bishop John Edward Mercer : a Christian socialist in Tasmania. Richard Davis , Hobart : University of Tasmania , 1982 Z1288776 1982 single work biography
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