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Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and VillageBook - Fictional Novel, Macmillan & Co. et al, Nevermore, 1892
... Nevermore......nevermore...Hard cover book, Nevermore Author: Pen Name Rolf Boldrewood For (Thomas Alexander Browne) Publisher: Macmillan And Co Printer: Robert Clark Date: 1892 Blue cloth hardcover and spine with spine lettering in black texter. ...Nevermore was serialized between 1889 and 1890, and was then published as a book in 1892. ...Nevermore was serialized between 1889 and 1890, and was then published as a book in 1892. The novel is a dramatic tale set against the backdrop of Victorian England and the 1850s Australian gold rush. The story follows Launcelot 'Lance' Trevanion, a proud and rebellious young Englishman who quarrels with his father and leaves for the Victorian goldfields of Ballarat to seek his fortune. Lance's impulsive nature and poor judgment lead him into a web of misfortune. He is falsely accused of horse-stealing by a corrupt police magistrate, wrongfully imprisoned, and subjected to the brutal realities of the colonial penal system. The title Nevermore reflects the tragic, Edgar Allan Poe-esque downward spiral of the protagonist, exploring themes of family pride, mistaken identity, colonial injustice, and the impossibility of reclaiming lost innocence.Hard cover book, Nevermore Author: Pen Name Rolf Boldrewood For (Thomas Alexander Browne) Publisher: Macmillan And Co Printer: Robert Clark Date: 1892 Blue cloth hardcover and spine with spine lettering in black texter. The spine has a Library label with inscription.fictionNevermore was serialized between 1889 and 1890, and was then published as a book in 1892. The novel is a dramatic tale set against the backdrop of Victorian England and the 1850s Australian gold rush. The story follows Launcelot 'Lance' Trevanion, a proud and rebellious young Englishman who quarrels with his father and leaves for the Victorian goldfields of Ballarat to seek his fortune. Lance's impulsive nature and poor judgment lead him into a web of misfortune. He is falsely accused of horse-stealing by a corrupt police magistrate, wrongfully imprisoned, and subjected to the brutal realities of the colonial penal system. The title Nevermore reflects the tragic, Edgar Allan Poe-esque downward spiral of the protagonist, exploring themes of family pride, mistaken identity, colonial injustice, and the impossibility of reclaiming lost innocence.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, nevermore, rolf boldrewood, thomas alexander browne, robbery under arms, the miner's right. -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and VillageBook - Fictional Novel, Rolf Boldrewood (Pen Name), My Run Home, 1897
... The Miner's Right and The Squatter's Dream, though not so skilfully constructed, are both admirable stories; then there are others such as A Sydney-Side Saxon, A Colonial Reformer, and Nevermore, and the reminiscences volume Old Melbourne Memories. ...My Run Home was Boldrewood's first novel, written in 1874. It was first serialised that year in the Australian Town and Country Journal, before appearing in book form decades later as part of Macmillan's Colonial Library in 1897. Beyond the serialisation and bibliographic listings, detailed plot summaries of this particular title are scarce in the available sources; unlike his later, much more famous novels, it doesn't appear to have a widely circulated synopsis. What is clear is the broader context it grew out of: Boldrewood's own experiences working on several different cattle and sheep stations in NSW from the 1840s to the 1860s, before drought forced him to move to Sydney in 1869 with his wife and young family. This novel draws on the kind of pastoral, bush-station background that runs through his fiction generally the title itself invokes "run", the contemporary term for a pastoral station.Hard cover book, My Run Home Author: Pen Name Rolf Boldrewood For (Thomas Alexander Browne) Publisher: Macmillan And Co Date: 1897 Green cloth hardcover and spine with spine lettering in white texter. The spine has a Library label with inscription, no flyleaf.fictionMy Run Home was Boldrewood's first novel, written in 1874. It was first serialised that year in the Australian Town and Country Journal, before appearing in book form decades later as part of Macmillan's Colonial Library in 1897. Beyond the serialisation and bibliographic listings, detailed plot summaries of this particular title are scarce in the available sources; unlike his later, much more famous novels, it doesn't appear to have a widely circulated synopsis. What is clear is the broader context it grew out of: Boldrewood's own experiences working on several different cattle and sheep stations in NSW from the 1840s to the 1860s, before drought forced him to move to Sydney in 1869 with his wife and young family. This novel draws on the kind of pastoral, bush-station background that runs through his fiction generally the title itself invokes "run", the contemporary term for a pastoral station.warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, great ocean road, book, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, warrnambool public library, my run home, rolf boldrewood
