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y separately published work icon The Swampers : A Romance of the Westralian Goldfields single work   novel   adventure   romance  
Issue Details: First known date: 1897... 1897 The Swampers : A Romance of the Westralian Goldfields
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'The Professor was of that peculiar craft which flourished so much during the earlier centuries, and has more or less flourished ever since under various disguises. He belonged to the tribe of the witch of Endor, that profession of seers and fore-tellers whom King Saul tried to put down in his vigorous and virtuous years, and afterwards weakly consulted in his decline; the same craft which that modern Solomon, King James I. of England, so rigorously hunted to death, and which might have died naturally only for the efforts of the Pschychological Society, and that able editor of Border-land, the discoverer of the fourth dimension.'

Notes

  • Dedication: To David Christie Murray, Novelist. I beg to dedicate this romance with profound admiration for his genius.

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Works about this Work

Gold and the Novel : Western Australia in the 1880s and 1890s Peter Cowan , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 33 no. 2 1988; (p. 31-55)
A View of Colonial Life : Hume Nisbet Peter Cowan , 1982 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , December vol. 27 no. 4 1982; (p. 81-98)
A View of Colonial Life : Hume Nisbet Peter Cowan , 1982 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , December vol. 27 no. 4 1982; (p. 81-98)
Gold and the Novel : Western Australia in the 1880s and 1890s Peter Cowan , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 33 no. 2 1988; (p. 31-55)
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Settings:
  • Kalgoorlie, Goldfields area, Southeast Western Australia, Western Australia,
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Country towns,
  • Urban,
  • Bush,
  • 1890s
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