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Issue Details: First known date: 1900... 1900 Blood Tracks of the Bush : An Australian Romance
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His novel explicitly deals with the massacres of Aborigines by settlers. It was less successful than his earlier work, "partly because inferior, but also because he courageously and accurately portrayed horrific mass-murders of Aborigines by police and pastoralists. The public was not ready for such honesty."

Source: G. K. Jenkin, 'Newland, Simpson (1835–1925)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, Melbourne University Press, 1988, pp 10–12.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Serialised by: The Evening Journal 1869 newspaper (42 issues)
Notes:
Serialised in The Evening Journal, in 17 weekly instalments (Saturdays), between 13 October 1900 and 1 February 1901.

Works about this Work

White Journeys into Black Country Tracy Spencer , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing 2010; (p. 149-161)

'Rebecca Forbes and Jim Page were English immigrants who lived and died amongst the Adnyamathanha people of the northern Flinders Ranges in the first half of the twentieth century. The first time I saw their two graves there - just the two of them, on their own up the hill, a little above the community at Nepabunna - I asked the obvious question: How did they come to be there? The journeys involved in these trajectories - immigration from England to Australia, migration from the coast to the inland - are the focus of this paper.' (Author's introduction, 149)

Lemuria and Australian Dreams of an Inland Sea Michael Cathcart , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lemuria , Winter vol. 1 no. 1 2006; (p. 32-47)
Cathcart reads a range of 'Lemurian novels,' examining their 'uncomplicated optimism about the future of White Australia, their trust that the key to that future lay beneath the earth, in the Great Australian Basin, and their attempts to grapple with the deadly impact of colonisation on the Aborigines who resisted' (44).
More Lost and Found : In Australia Graham Stone , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 148-151)

— Review of Blood Tracks of the Bush : An Australian Romance Simpson Newland , 1900 single work novel ; God in the Sand : An Australian Mystical Romance Theodore Price , 1934 single work novel ; Full Moon Bay William Pengreep , 1934 single work novel ; The Temple of Sahr William Pengreep , 1932 single work novel ; The Hidden Kingdom M. Lynn Hamilton , 1932 single work novel ; The Valley of Adventure : A Story for Boys E. V. Timms , 1926 single work ; The Invisible Island : A Story of the Far North of Queensland Alexander Macdonald , 1910 single work children's fiction ; Fugitive Anne : A Romance of the Unexplored Bush Rosa Praed , 1903 single work novel ; The Lost Civilization : A Story of Adventure in Central Australia Val Heslop , 1936 single work novel
Beyond Windswept Branches : Simpson Newland's Images of Central Australia Graham White , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , December vol. 36 no. 4 1991; (p. 63-69)
The Case of the Missing Genre : In Search of Australian Crime Fiction Stephen Knight , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 48 no. 3 1988; (p. 235-249)
More Lost and Found : In Australia Graham Stone , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 148-151)

— Review of Blood Tracks of the Bush : An Australian Romance Simpson Newland , 1900 single work novel ; God in the Sand : An Australian Mystical Romance Theodore Price , 1934 single work novel ; Full Moon Bay William Pengreep , 1934 single work novel ; The Temple of Sahr William Pengreep , 1932 single work novel ; The Hidden Kingdom M. Lynn Hamilton , 1932 single work novel ; The Valley of Adventure : A Story for Boys E. V. Timms , 1926 single work ; The Invisible Island : A Story of the Far North of Queensland Alexander Macdonald , 1910 single work children's fiction ; Fugitive Anne : A Romance of the Unexplored Bush Rosa Praed , 1903 single work novel ; The Lost Civilization : A Story of Adventure in Central Australia Val Heslop , 1936 single work novel
Lemuria and Australian Dreams of an Inland Sea Michael Cathcart , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lemuria , Winter vol. 1 no. 1 2006; (p. 32-47)
Cathcart reads a range of 'Lemurian novels,' examining their 'uncomplicated optimism about the future of White Australia, their trust that the key to that future lay beneath the earth, in the Great Australian Basin, and their attempts to grapple with the deadly impact of colonisation on the Aborigines who resisted' (44).
White Journeys into Black Country Tracy Spencer , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing 2010; (p. 149-161)

'Rebecca Forbes and Jim Page were English immigrants who lived and died amongst the Adnyamathanha people of the northern Flinders Ranges in the first half of the twentieth century. The first time I saw their two graves there - just the two of them, on their own up the hill, a little above the community at Nepabunna - I asked the obvious question: How did they come to be there? The journeys involved in these trajectories - immigration from England to Australia, migration from the coast to the inland - are the focus of this paper.' (Author's introduction, 149)

Beyond Windswept Branches : Simpson Newland's Images of Central Australia Graham White , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , December vol. 36 no. 4 1991; (p. 63-69)
The Case of the Missing Genre : In Search of Australian Crime Fiction Stephen Knight , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 48 no. 3 1988; (p. 235-249)
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  • c
    England,
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    c
    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • Far West NSW, New South Wales,
  • Darling River, Far West NSW, New South Wales,
  • Australian Outback, Central Australia,
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  • 1890s
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