y separately published work icon The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 1859... 1859 The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Latest Issues

Notes

  • Most editions have dedication: To Father and Mother/ This book/ the fruit of so many weary years of separation/ is dedicated/ with the deepest love and reverence.
  • For a detailed outline of the editing, revision and publishing history of this work see the 'Introduction' to Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn (Australian Academy Editions, 1997. Ed. Paul Eggert, Stanton Mellick and Patrick Morgan), particularly pp. l-lxx.

Contents

* Contents derived from the St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,:University of Queensland Press , 1996 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn (1996) : Introduction, J. S. D. Mellick , Patrick Morgan , Paul Eggert , single work criticism biography
Mellick, Morgan and Eggert offer an indispensable account of the composition, publication and reception of the novel in this introduction to their scholarly edition of Geoffry Hamlyn.
(p. xix-lxx)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Cambridge, Cambridgeshire,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Macmillan ,
      1860 .
      Extent: xi, 433p.
      Edition info: 2nd. ed.
      Reprinted: 1864 3rd ed.
      Note/s:
      • Kingsley's revisions to the first edition did 'not amount to a thorough or extensive re-thinking of the novel' but were 'confined to adding footnotes and other light, often deft, touches to the wording here and there.' ('Introduction', Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn, Australian Academy Editions, 1997, p.li).
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Chapman and Hall ,
      1872 .
      Extent: 433p.
      Reprinted: 1876 , 1873 Twice , 1879 , 1872 , 1878 Colophon: Printed 4-10-1877
    • Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,: J. Walch , ca. 1890 .
      Extent: 433p.
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Melbourne, Victoria,: Ward, Lock and Bowden ,
      ca. 1893 .
      Extent: x, 433p.
      Reprinted: 1893
      Note/s:
      • Also issued in 1893 as a 'Special Australian edition' with an Australian crest surmounting a scroll entitled 'Advance Australia Fair' and floral decorations on the beginning and end pages. (Special Australian edition - Advance Australia"--Back cover)
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: E. W. Cole , ca. 1894 .
      Extent: 433p.
      Note/s:
      • 'Special Australian edition' with an Australian crest surmounting a scroll entitled 'Advance Australia Fair' and floral decorations on the beginning and end pages.('Coles special edition - Advance Australia'--Back cover)
      Series: Cole's Favourite Library series - publisher
    • Toronto, Ontario,
      c
      Canada,
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Wardlowe ,
      1894 .
      Extent: xxx, 468 p.p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • 'With a memoir of Henry Kingsley by Clement Shorter.'
      • Sheets printed in England; distinct Warlowe title page imprint.
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Collins ,
      1899 .
      Extent: 475p.
      Description: illus.
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Longmans, Green ,
      1899 .
      Extent: xxx, 468p.
      Edition info: Set from the Ward, Lock and Bowden 1894 edition.
      Description: illus., plates, port.
      Reprinted: 1899-1908
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Glasgow,
      c
      Scotland,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Collins ,
      ca. 1900 .
      Extent: viii, 664 [5] leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus.
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Melbourne, Victoria,: Ward, Lock ,
      1901 .
      Extent: xxx, 468p. [4] leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus., port.
      Reprinted: 1909
      Note/s:
      • With a memoir by Clement Shorter.
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      J. M. Dent ,
      ca. 1909 .
      Extent: xii, 475p.p.
      Reprinted: 1910 , 1924 Everyman's Library
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Ward, Lock ,
      1910 .
      Extent: 492p.
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Nelson ,
      ca. 1932 .
      Alternative title: Geoffrey Hamlyn
      Extent: vi, 570p.p.
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Hallcraft , 1952 .
      Alternative title: Geoffry Hamlyn
      Extent: 466p.
    • St Clair Shores, Michigan,
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Scholarly Press ,
      1979 .
      Extent: vii, 475p.
      Note/s:
      • Reprint of the 1909 Everyman edition.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Henry Kingsley Henry Kingsley , J. S. D. Mellick (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1982 Z514643 1982 selected work novel criticism prose St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1982 pg. 1-433
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Real Books , 1991 .
      Extent: ix, 474p.p.
      ISBN: 186302154X (pbk.)
    • Stepney, Norwood, Payneham & St Peters area, Adelaide - North / North East, Adelaide, South Australia,: Axiom , 2001 .
      Extent: 474p.
      ISBN: 1864760737

Other Formats

Works about this Work

Settler Colonial Fictions : Beyond Nationalism and Universalism Paul Giles , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel 2023; (p. 54-68)

'Paradoxically, Australian nationalist accounts have tended to slight the earliest Australian literature by white settlers from the nineteenth century. This chapter surveys the literary history of this period, examining writers such as Oliné Keese, Ada Cambridge, Henry Kingsley, Rosa Praed, and Catherine Helen Spence. Drawing connections between these writers and the transnational Anglophone literary world centering on Great Britain and the United States, this chapter takes a comparative perspective that at once acknowledges the peripheral standing of these Australian texts and argues for their relevance to the history of the novel in English.' (Publication abstract)

Colonial Adventure Novels Ken Gelder , Rachael Weaver , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023;
‘Like Volcanoes on the Ranges’ : How Australian Bushfire Writing Has Changed with the Climate Grace Moore , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 13 November 2019;

'Bushfire writing has long been a part of Australian literature.

'Tales of heroic rescues and bush Christmases describe a time when the fire season was confined only to summer months and Australia’s battler identity was forged in the flames.' (Introduction)

Picnic with Nuns and Natives Russell McDougall , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , vol. 32 no. 1/2 2018; (p. 144-162)

'In 1982, Michael Symons published One Continuous Picnic: A History of Eating in Australia. The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition extended the subtitle with the addition of the "g" word as a sign of national progress and maturation, so that it read, A Gastronomic History of Australian Eating. The main title, while remaining the same, originally read ironically, like Donald Horne's title for The Lucky Country, suggesting a settler culture lacking in discipline, ambition, or taste—whereas by the time of the anniversary edition, "the continuous picnic" had become a full-blown paradox, conjuring simultaneously both progress and decline. It speaks now of nostalgia for a more innocent time, the naiveté (some would say the perversity) of which lay in its self-satisfaction. So what exactly does the picnic signify in Australian culture? What was its original conception, and how has it evolved as a representative image of the Australian way of life?' (Introduction)

Alternative Families, Natural Disasters and Colonial Settlement: Henry Kingsley’s Australia Grace Moore , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Histories of Emotion from Medieval Europe to Contemporary Australia , February 2017;
Mr Henry Kingsley's Novel "Geoffrey Hamlyn" 1859 single work review
— Appears in: The Southern Cross , 8 November vol. 8 no. 1 1859; (p. 5)

— Review of The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn Henry Kingsley , 1859 single work novel
New Publications 1894 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 22 December vol. 49 no. 1298 1894; (p. 9)

— Review of The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn Henry Kingsley , 1859 single work novel
[Review] The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn Helen Horton , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , March vol. 6 no. 1 1994; (p. 103-104)

— Review of The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn Henry Kingsley , 1859 single work novel ; A Sydney Sovereign and Other Tales Tasma , 1889 selected work short story novella
A Slouch-Hatted Canon Nicolas Rothwell , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , February vol. 2 no. 1 1997; (p. 10-13)

— Review of The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn Henry Kingsley , 1859 single work novel ; The Journal of Annie Baxter Dawbin : July 1858 - May 1868 Annie Maria Baxter Dawbin , 1998 single work autobiography ; Maurice Guest Henry Handel Richardson , 1908 single work novel
Life in the Colonies Brenda Niall , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 9 January 1999; (p. 9)

— Review of The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn Henry Kingsley , 1859 single work novel ; The Journal of Annie Baxter Dawbin : July 1858 - May 1868 Annie Maria Baxter Dawbin , 1998 single work autobiography
The Fiction Reading Habits of the Tichborne Claimant Patrick Morgan , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Margin , November no. 61 2003; (p. 13-17)
The author traces novels of the 1800s, including those of Henry Kingsley and Mary Braddon, the themes of which may have influenced the Tichborne claimant Arthur Orton.
Out of England : Literary Subjectivity in the Australian Colonies, 1788-1867 Simon During , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Imagining Australia : Literature and Culture in the New New World 2004; (p. 3-21) Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 61-72)
'...During traces the formation and transformation of 'modern literary subjectivity' in the distinctive conditions of nineteenth century Australia.' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)
Constructing the Post-Colonial Male Body Bill Ashcroft , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Body in the Library 1998; (p. 207-223)

Discusses the representations of the male body and identity in Australian art and literature.

Remembering the Self in the Colonial Garden : Gardens and Subjectivity Susan K. Martin , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Memory, Monuments and Museums : The Past in the Present 2006; (p. 182-193, notes 276-278)
Twelve Australian Books That Should Be in Every Home Charles R. Long , 1938 single work criticism
— Appears in: All About Books , 15 January vol. 10 no. 1 1938; (p. 9)
The books on Long's list are 'selected mainly with an eye to their educational value'.
Last amended 11 Mar 2020 17:02:02
Settings:
  • Devon (County),
    c
    England,
    c
    c
    United Kingdom (UK),
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
  • Monaro, Cooma area, Cooma - Snowy - Bombala area, Southeastern NSW, New South Wales,
  • ca. 1820-1860
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X