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H. Butler Stoney H. Butler Stoney i(A45005 works by) (a.k.a. Henry Butler Stoney; H. B. Stoney)
Born: Established: 1816 ; Died: Ceased: 1894
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: ca. 1852-1854 Departed from Australia: 31 Oct 1855
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1 y separately published work icon Reginald Mortimer; or, 'Truth More Strange Than Fiction' : A Tale of a Soldier's Life and Adventure H. Butler Stoney , Melbourne : W. Fairfax and Co. , 1857 Z1438151 1857 single work novel romance adventure

E. Morris Miller's Australian Literature from its Beginnings to 1935 (1940): 600 comments: 'Account of the life of a young Irish University graduate and officer who served in Spain during the Carlist rebellion in 1836 and passed several years with his regiment in England, Malta and the West Indies. He was killed in action in the Crimea. The book includes two romantic love stories and souvenirs de voyage through southern Europe.'
1 y separately published work icon Victoria : a description of its principal cities, Melbourne and Geelong : and remarks on the present state of the colony including an account of the Ballarat disturbances, and of the death of Captain Wise, 40th regiment H. Butler Stoney , London : Smith, Elder , 1856 Z1438251 1856 single work prose A minor classic of the gold-rush era: written by Stoney as a companion to his Residence in Tasmania, this important and valuable addition to the sparse contemporary literature of Eureka is written from the military viewpoint and is, in that sense, unique. His understandably one-sided account of the Eureka affray attempts to justify the soldiers' less than glorious role. It is also one of the significant descriptions of gold-rush Victoria and its value extends well beyond the treatment of Eureka. (Hordern House Catalogue).
2 y separately published work icon A Year in Tasmania : Including Some Months' Residence in the Capital with a Descriptive Tour through the Island, from Macquarie Harbour to Circular Head and a Short Notice of the Colony in 1853 H. Butler Stoney , Hobart : W. Fletcher , 1854 Z1325407 1854 single work prose travel
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