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Born: Established: 1858 New York (City), New York (State),
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas, ; Died: Ceased: 1917 New York (City), New York (State),
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,
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1 3 y separately published work icon Adventures in Australia, or, The Wanderings of Captain Spencer in the Bush and the Wilds : Containing Accurate Descriptions of the Habits of Natives, and the Natural Productions and Features of the Country Sarah Lee , New York (City) : Dick and Fitzgerald , 1870-1879 Z844144 1851 single work children's fiction adventure travel children's

'The novel is a Robinsonade, in which Spencer is shipwrecked and crosses the continent from north to south then travels east with his horse Tiger, his dog Gipsy, his parrot Charlie and Kinchela, his Aboriginal mentor. The resourceful Captain undergoes every difficulty and privation imaginable, all the time observing the remarkable animals, birds, and insects around him, the scientific names of which are provided for the reader.'

(Source: Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature, 1993)

1 4 y separately published work icon The History of Margaret Catchpole, A Suffolk Girl Richard Cobbold , 1845 New York (City) : Dick and Fitzgerald , 1850 Z1045302 1845 single work novel

Richard Cobbold's The History of Margaret Catchpole is a novelised account of the life of the woman who had once been a servant to the Cobbold family. Cobbold represents Catchpole as a tomboyish girl, daughter of a rural farm worker in Suffolk who becomes a particularly skilled horse rider.
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