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J. B. Mummery J. B. Mummery i(A77042 works by) (a.k.a. Joseph Browning Mummery)
Born: Established: 1826
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 16 Feb 1909 Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1849
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1 A Watery Excursion J. B. Mummery , 1876 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , January vol. 11 no. 128 1876; (p. 240-241) Account of a journey in 1870 from dull Campbelltown to Camden after a serious downpour and flooding. (PB)
1 Prince Albert Reef : Wattle Flat J. B. Mummery , 1874 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , May vol. 9 no. 108 1874; (p. 523-525) Set on the Turon River diggings near Sofala NSW in 1859. A near-penniless doctor determines to try his luck on Wattle Flat but his enterprise is cut short when his mining partner's mistress is followed to their hut by her long-term lover, knife in hand ... Smoothly told without the excesses usually associated with such melodrama - though gory enough. (PB)
1 Adventures in the Australian Bush J. B. Mummery , 1872 single work novella adventure Three years in the bush narrated by an English doctor. Fom Sydney he proceeds to the Hunter River, Newcastle and Maitland, working for a time on a local farm and then riding solo to a station on the Barwon river via Singleton, Muswellbrook, Murrunrundi, the Liverpool Ranges and the Namoi River. After helping draft some cattle he drives them back to Sydney via Morpeth with the help of a couple of stockmen and a bullock team. Stories of stockmen, shepherds and drought. His encounters with the Aborigines around the Barwon, singly and in groups, which he describes at length including 'gin-hunting', food-gathering, a corroboree and a battle between the Moori and the Yarrawandi tribes. He settles at Yarrawandi and builds a 'bush hospital' - treating patients including an intending participant in an Aboriginal 'dispersement' raid. The doctor eventually returns to Sydney. (PB)
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