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Issue Details: First known date: 1971... 1971 Seal Australian Fiction
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Includes

y separately published work icon Henry Lawson : Selected Stories Henry Lawson , Brian Matthews (editor), Adelaide : Rigby , 1971 Z1216141 1971 selected work short story Adelaide : Rigby , 1971
y separately published work icon Clara Morison : A Tale of South Australia During the Gold Fever Catherine Helen Spence , London : John W. Parker , 1854 Z824970 1854 single work novel romance Adelaide : Rigby , 1971
y separately published work icon The Tilted Cross Hal Porter , London : Faber , 1961 Z27776 1961 single work novel historical fiction Adelaide : Rigby , 1971
y separately published work icon Moondyne : A Story from the Under-world John Boyle O'Reilly , 1878-1879 Z1213748 1878-1879 single work novel

'Cross-cutting between England and Western Australia, which is described here as "a vast and unknown country, almost mysterious in its solitude and unlikeness to any other part of the earth," O'Reilly's novel mixes romance, transportation, and discussion of penal policy, with Moondyne Joe himself, a prisoner who escapes to the Australian bush, re-emerging subsequently as "Comptroller-General of Convicts in Australia," in which role he propounds a system of reform based upon "the radical principles of humanity".

'The novel's plot develops through a romance between an English Catholic with an Irish name, Will Sheridan, and his childhood sweetheart Alice Walmsley, who is wrongly convicted of murdering her own child and held in London's Millbank Prison, after being transported to Australia.'

Source: Giles, Paul. Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of U.S. Literature. USA: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Adelaide : Rigby , 1980

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First known date: 1971
    • Adelaide, South Australia,: Rigby , 1971- .
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