Physical description

Hard cover book, A Sydney-Side Saxon
Author: Pen Name Rolf Boldrewood For (Thomas Alexander Browne)
Publisher: Macmillan And Co
Date: 1891
Blue cloth hardcover and spine with spine lettering in black texter. The spine has a Library label with inscription.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on the spine with typed text 899.3 BOL
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Public Library

Summary

"A Sydney-Side Saxon" is a novel by Rolf Boldrewood (pen name of Thomas Alexander Browne, 1826–1915), first published in 1891 by Macmillan & Co. as No. 124 in Macmillan's Colonial Library. It's a single-volume work (unlike many of his other novels, which ran to three volumes) of 12 chapters, centring on the Claythorpe family of "Applegate" station and the pastoral world of colonial New South Wales squatters, station life, courtship, and the social texture of rural Australia in the late 19th century. Chapter headings such as "Job Claythorpe, of Applegate, ploughman", "Jesse Claythorpe, crowboy", and "Jack Leighton, swagman" reflect its episodic, character-driven structure typical of Boldrewood's pastoral fiction.
Boldrewood drew heavily on his own experience some 25 years as a squatter and pastoralist in Victoria and the Riverina, followed by decades as a police magistrate and goldfields warden in NSW which gives his fiction its documentary feel for colonial bush life.