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B. E. Minns B. E. Minns i(A21738 works by) (a.k.a. Benjamin Edwin Minns)
Born: Established: 17 Nov 1864 Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 21 Feb 1937 Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
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1 The People with No Clothes Bartlett Adamson , 1927 single work novel adventure romance 'An amateur airman, Huntingdon ("Don") Garde, discovers a sheer-walled canyon in Central Australia. He makes a forced landing on the bank of a river which traverses the vast cavity, and while exploring the region the aeroplane disappears. Within the canyon he finds a strange community, speaking old Spanish, practising ancient torture-rites and ruled by an old despot. Garde and a girl named Liria form an attachment. After various terrifying happenings the two get separated, Liria being with the people of the canyon, and in great peril, while Garde is shut off from her by a line of sentinels and watch fires.' (Source: The Home, June 1927)
1 Grainger Comes Home to Say - : An Interview Jean Curlewis (interviewer), 1926 single work interview
— Appears in: The Home , 2 August vol. 7 no. 8 1926; (p. 15, 96)
1 1 y separately published work icon Budgeree Bill : An Australian Story for Little Australians W. J. O'Neill , Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1926 Z1321237 1926 single work children's fiction children's The story of Budgeree Bill, a little indigenous boy who rides a kangaroo, hunts dingoes, and has many animal friends. He is certainly not friends, however, with the terrifying bunyip that lives near by.
1 Told in the Clubhouse Campbell Dixon , 1925 single work short story
— Appears in: The Home , 1 August vol. 6 no. 4 1925; (p. 22-23, 86, 88, 90, 92, 96)
1 2 The Story of the Mungingee David Unaipon , 1924 single work short story Indigenous story
— Appears in: Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines 1924-1925; The Home , 1 February vol. 6 no. 1 1925; (p. 42-43) Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines 1930; (p. 345-350) Southerly , September vol. 39 no. 3 1979; (p. 347-350) Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines 2001; (p. 145-149)

Mungingee is the Aboriginal legend of the creation of constellation Pleiades, and a story of endurance and control.
1 2 y separately published work icon Australian Nursery Rimes : Selected from the Bulletin for the Children's Hospital Arthur H. Adams , Sydney : William Brooks , 1917 Z848796 1917 anthology poetry children's
1 4 y separately published work icon The Kiss of Dolly Day and Other Cynical Rhymes for Recitation (Including 'The Billiard Marker's Yarn') Edmund Fisher , Melbourne : E. W. Cole , 1912 Z446395 1912 selected work poetry satire humour
1 The Game of Life i "When first we played the Game of Life", B. E. Minns , 1907 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Lone Hand , 1 November vol. 2 no. 7 1907; (p. 112)
2 15 The Last Lemurian : A Westralian Romance G. Firth Scott , 1896 single work novel science fiction adventure horror
— Appears in: The Golden Penny , Christmas Extra 1896;

This volume is a romance set against the backdrop of the wilds of Australia. Dick Halwood meets up with the Hatter, who tells the story of a strange land in the Australian desert where an odd yellow woman lives, ruling a band of aged pygmies. Tor Ymmothe, the yellow woman, is the last Queen of Lemuria. She has been condemned to live alone for thousands of years in the caves, paying the price for the arrogance of her race which was destroyed. She guards the body of a young princess, who has lain in a comatose state for thousands of years, waiting for her own true love to appear. Halwood discovers where the princess' body lies. Upon seeing her face, he learns she is the woman who had appeared to him in a vision. Join Halwood in his adventurous quest for true love.
1 Dick's Letter Lilian Blair , 1893 single work short story
— Appears in: The Antipodean 1893; (p. 40-45) Even after four years, Jim clings to the hope that his unfaithful wife will return to him. He waits patiently for a letter from her, but the letter that he finally receives does not bring good news.
1 An Australian Pantomime Davidson Symons , 1893 single work short story humour
— Appears in: The Antipodean 1893; (p. 28-36) Brady asks Prodgers to write a uniquely Australian pantomime. Prodgers is happy to do so, until the cast and crew make numerous changes to his work.
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