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Henry Melville Henry Melville i(A42707 works by) (birth name: Henry Saxelby Melville Wintle)
Also writes as: M ; Henricus
Born: Established: 1799
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 22 Dec 1873 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1828 Departed from Australia: ca. 1849
Heritage: English
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2 y separately published work icon The Present State of Australia, Including New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, and New Zealand, with Practical Hints on Emigration : To Which Are Added the Land Regulations, and Description of the Aborigines and Their Habits Henry Melville , London : G. Willis , 1851 6926157 1851 single work single work non-fiction prose travel
1 y separately published work icon The Tasmanian and Austral-Asiatic Review [1834] Tasmanian and Review Robert Lathrop Murray (editor), Henry Melville (editor), F. M. Innes (editor), 1834 Hobart Town (1803-1880) : Henry Melville , 1834-1838 Z1243774 1834-1837 newspaper (2 issues)
1 4 y separately published work icon The Bushrangers; or, Norwood Vale Henry Melville , 1834 Fortitude Valley : Playlab , 2013 Z859069 1834-2006 single work drama
1 1 y separately published work icon The Hobart Town Magazine Hobart : Henry Melville , 1833-1834 Z1244377 1833-1834 periodical (15 issues)
2 24 y separately published work icon Quintus Servinton : A Tale, Founded upon Incidents of Real Occurrence Henry Savery , London : Smith, Elder , 1832 Z897205 1830-1831 single work novel

'By setting, by date of publication, and the residence of the author, Quintus Servinton is rightly regarded as Australia's first novel. Printed in Hobart Town in three volumes, in 1830-1, and expressly intended for dispatch to England (where it was re-issued in London in 1832), only a few copies were reserved for sale in Tasmania. Of these, only three are known to survive, and the book has long been inaccessible to any but the most persistent of readers.'

'It presents an invaluable and fascinating picture - first of English provincial life and of contemporary business dealing, and then of convict life as experienced by an educated convict, a contrast and complement to the Ralph Rashleigh picture of the convict of humble birth and little or no education crushed by brutality and manual labour.'

'In his introduction, Cecil Hadgraft traces the author's own chequered career - an amazing sequence of misfortunes and miscalculations both before and after his twenty-four hour reprieve from the gallows, and particularly significant for the assessment and appreciation of a novel known to be largely autobiographical.' (Source: Online)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Tasmanian and Southern Literary and Political Journal Robert Lathrop Murray (editor), Thomas Richards (editor), Henry Melville (editor), Henry Melville (editor), 1831 Hobart Town (1803-1880) : Henry Melville , 1831-1833 Z1936212 1831 newspaper (3 issues)
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