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Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and VillageBook - Fictional Novel, Rolf Boldrewood (Pen Name), The Sealskin Cloak, 1896
... The Sealskin Cloak......the sealskin cloak...By the 1890s, when The Sealskin Cloak was published, Macmillan had grown into one of the leading British literary publishing houses, known for scientific, educational, and literary works, and for publishing many prominent Victorian and colonial authors. ...Hard cover book, The Sealskin Cloak Author: Pen Name Rolf Boldrewood For (Thomas Alexander Browne) Publisher: Macmillan And Co Date: 1896 Brown cloth hardcover and spine with spine lettering in black texter. ...The spine has a Library label with inscription. The Sealskin Cloak Book Fictional Novel Rolf Boldrewood (Pen Name) Macmillan and Co. ...The Sealskin Cloak (1896) is a novel by Rolf Boldrewood, the pen name of Thomas Alexander Browne the Australian author best known for Robbery Under Arms. Unlike his famous bushranger and goldfield tales, this novel is set largely in England and Europe rather than the Australian bush. It opens with Hugh Gordon parting from his wife, Marguerite, at London Bridge railway station as she travels to attend to a sick aunt in the south of France, wearing her distinctive sealskin cloak. The cloak later becomes central to a case of mistaken identity following an accident, when the name and address sewn inside the garment are used to identify a body as Marguerite Gordon. The novel is generally classed as a romantic mystery rather than one of his colonial adventure narratives.Hard cover book, The Sealskin Cloak Author: Pen Name Rolf Boldrewood For (Thomas Alexander Browne) Publisher: Macmillan And Co Date: 1896 Brown cloth hardcover and spine with spine lettering in black texter. The spine has a Library label with inscription.fictionThe Sealskin Cloak (1896) is a novel by Rolf Boldrewood, the pen name of Thomas Alexander Browne the Australian author best known for Robbery Under Arms. Unlike his famous bushranger and goldfield tales, this novel is set largely in England and Europe rather than the Australian bush. It opens with Hugh Gordon parting from his wife, Marguerite, at London Bridge railway station as she travels to attend to a sick aunt in the south of France, wearing her distinctive sealskin cloak. The cloak later becomes central to a case of mistaken identity following an accident, when the name and address sewn inside the garment are used to identify a body as Marguerite Gordon. The novel is generally classed as a romantic mystery rather than one of his colonial adventure narratives.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, the sealskin cloak, rolf boldrewood -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and VillageBook - Fictional Novel, Rolf Boldrewood (Pen Name), My Run Home, 1897
... By the 1890s, when The Sealskin Cloak was published, Macmillan had grown into one of the leading British literary publishing houses, known for scientific, educational, and literary works, and for publishing many prominent Victorian and colonial authors. ...By the 1890s, when The Sealskin Cloak was published, Macmillan had grown into one of the leading British literary publishing houses, known for scientific, educational, and literary works, and for publishing many prominent Victorian and colonial authors. ...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
