Edmund Mitchell (International) assertion Edmund Mitchell i(A86020 works by) (a.k.a. Edmund B. Mitchell)
Born: Established: 1861 Glasgow,
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Scotland,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
; Died: Ceased: May 1917 New York (City), New York (State),
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,

Gender: Male
Visitor assertion Arrived in Australia: ca. 1888
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1 y separately published work icon The Despoilers : Being the Story of a Missing Will and the Search for It Edmund Mitchell , London : Cassell , 1904 Z1331635 1904 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Only a Nigger Edmund Mitchell , London : Chatto and Windus , 1901 Z1331178 1901 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon The Lone Star Rush Edmund Mitchell , London : Chatto and Windus , 1901 Z1182267 1901 single work children's fiction children's adventure
1 y separately published work icon Chickabiddy Stories Edmund Mitchell , London : Wells Gardner , 1899 Z1328097 1899 selected work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Toward the Eternal Snows Edmund Mitchell , London : Hutchinson , 1896 Z1328136 1896 single work novel fantasy

'The story opens in Portuguese India, where at midnight mass in the half-ruined cathedral of Old Goa two young Englishmen, Charles Tressider and Horace Vine, discover a fainting Englishwoman. Going to her assistance they find she is ill and unconscious, and the two native women by whom she is accompanied can only tell them that a year before they found her wandering alone in the jungle close to their village, delirious with fever. They had taken her in and cared for her; and on that night, had brought her to the cathedral at her own wish. The mysterious lady is promptly placed under the protection of  Christian people in the town, and she is attended by a foreign doctor, who gains an hypnotic influence over her. There is soon a nice little tangle of events and circumstances, but eventually it is straightened out, and everything ends up better than could be expected.'  (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148210424) 

2 1 y separately published work icon The Temple of Death Edmund Mitchell , 1892 1892 Z1592774 1892 single work novel fantasy

'The novel opens on board the yacht Cushu Doo, of Colaba Point, Bombay. The narrator, Hal Ravenhurst, cruising for pleasure, has a faithful servant – Laljee; and, one day, an apparently innocent conjurer makes his appearance, with his stock-in-trade. The incident is significant. This man has been seeking his quarry with a powerful motive, all over India; next morning Laljee is found stabbed through the heart, outside his master's cabin door, the assassin leaving no trace behind. Ravenhurst, knowing that fanaticism lies at the bottom of the crime, determines to seek out and punish the murderer, in addition to un-ravelling the mystery. On Laljee's first sight of the conjuror he feels that his last hour has come, and he tells his master how, many years ago, in a Southern Indian State he escaped death at the hands of the Prime Minister, a chief priest of Yama, in the Temple of Death. Ravenhurst, unluckily, forgets the names, and so has a difficult quest. He makes up his mind, however, to visit an old friend – Chris Selden – and his unmarried sister, at Cochin, and enlist their active assistance, strongly reinforced by the help of an old gentleman named Suddleigh, who is living at a recluse in the country with his devoted servitor, Hassan. Suddleigh, years ago, has thrown up his appointment in the Civil Service, through the death of his wife and the abduction of his infant daughter by a native nurse. In vain has he traversed India, in all sorts of disguises, seeking her; his knowledge of Oriental habits, languages, and customs proving him a veritable Captain Burton. Ravenhurst finds the old gentleman a ready help, and they all start away to the native state of Noorjehnupur, at the chief town of which Suddleigh had lost the only clue to his child. Here we find the Prime Minister, the Rao Bahadur Turaki Munguldas, high priest of Yama, with his one hundred assistants, performing the hideous rites of human sacrifice to the God of Death, who "wafts away the souls of men." In his zenana is the lost Miss Suddleigh, who is being kept as a victim or an offering to Yama, it being customary every twenty-five years to propitiate the deity by the death of a European girl. How the rescue of the lost Eileen is effected and the secrets of Yama become known are the property of the story.'

Source: 'The Temple of Death', Clarence and Richmond Examiner, 30 June 1894, p.6.

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