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Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 Rolf Boldrewood : A Life
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'Rolf Boldrewood was one of the best-known novelists of 19th-century Australia, and the first to present specifically Australian characters. Robbery Under Arms became a household name and is still in print. Boldrewood's alter ego, Thomas Alexander Brown, was a pioneer squatter, civil servant and writer, with a career in many ways far grimmer than most of his fiction.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Miegunyah Press , 2000 .
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      Series: y separately published work icon Miegunyah Press Series : Second Series Miegunyah Press (publisher), 1995- Z1014067 1995- series - publisher In 1995 The Miegunyah Press became a separate imprint of MUP, and its distinctive window logo appears on all books published in the second series. Titles in the second series include a colophon page at the end of the book that lists the book's editor and designer, the typeface used in the text, the paper on which it is printed, the name of the printer and the number of copies printed. (Adapted from the publisher's website: http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/Miegunyah.html)

Works about this Work

[Review Essay] Rolf Boldrewood : A Life Leigh Dale , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 21 no. 2 2003; (p. 228-230)

— Review of Rolf Boldrewood : A Life Paul H. De Serville , 2000 single work criticism biography
[Review Essay] Rolf Boldrewood : A Life Grace Johansen , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics and History , September vol. 48 no. 3 2002; (p. 418-419)

— Review of Rolf Boldrewood : A Life Paul H. De Serville , 2000 single work criticism biography
A Biography of Rolf Boldrewood Victor Crittenden , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Margin , April no. 53 2001; (p. 2-6)

— Review of Rolf Boldrewood : A Life Paul H. De Serville , 2000 single work criticism biography
[Review Essay] Rolf Boldrewood : A Life Michael Ackland , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , no. 2 2001; Journal of Australian Studies , no. 69 2001; (p. 166-167)

— Review of Rolf Boldrewood : A Life Paul H. De Serville , 2000 single work criticism biography

'If Paul de Serville's latest book were entitled Thomas Browne: A Life, who would read it? As it is, Browne's pen name 'Rolf Boldrewood' will attract few enough readers, I suspect, despite Peter Carey's recent success with the True History of the Kelly Gang. 'Boldrewood', not Browne, is the name with currency, though the public is as likely to know his classic account of bushranging, Robbery under Arms, from one of its many film versions as from reading the original. De Serville reveals further reasons for sticking to the nom de plume: Browne wrote as 'Templar' and 'An Australian', and with the possibility of illegitimacy hanging over him, added an 'e' to his name to raise himself above the ruck and to associate himself with more illustrious forebears. In literature, and to a lesser extent in life, Browne was given to improving romantically on his family line and experiences.' (Introduction)

Such is Character Michael McGirr , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , July-August vol. 11 no. 6 2001; (p. 32)

— Review of Rolf Boldrewood : A Life Paul H. De Serville , 2000 single work criticism biography
[Review Essay] Rolf Boldrewood : A Life Leigh Dale , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 21 no. 2 2003; (p. 228-230)

— Review of Rolf Boldrewood : A Life Paul H. De Serville , 2000 single work criticism biography
Outlaw Biography Gideon Haigh , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 16 January vol. 119 no. 6257 2001; (p. 88)

— Review of Rolf Boldrewood : A Life Paul H. De Serville , 2000 single work criticism biography
Writing to Order Paul Eggert , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 5 January no. 5101 2001; (p. 7)

— Review of Rolf Boldrewood : A Life Paul H. De Serville , 2000 single work criticism biography
How Brown Became Blue Patrick Morgan , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 45 no. 3 2001; (p. 83-85)

— Review of Rolf Boldrewood : A Life Paul H. De Serville , 2000 single work criticism biography
Gentleman Caller Gerard Windsor , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , October vol. 5 no. 9 2000; (p. 10-11)

— Review of Rolf Boldrewood : A Life Paul H. De Serville , 2000 single work criticism biography
Rolf's Written Legacy Christopher Bantick , 2001 single work biography
— Appears in: The West Australian , 24 March 2001; (p. 7)
Famous Anglo-Australian Hid His Irish Link Seamus Breslan , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Tain , October no. 9 2000; (p. 21)
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