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George Barrington [allonym] George Barrington [allonym] i(A100081 works by)
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1 y separately published work icon Barrington's Annals of Suicide, or Horrors of Self-Murder George Barrington [allonym] (editor), London : Tegg and Castleman , 1803 Z1336065 1803 selected work single work short story A sensationalist collection of tales about suicide, supposedly compiled by the convict George Barrington, who is used as the narrator of the first tale (set in New South Wales), and also the introduction to the work. In reality, the work was put together by the bookseller Thomas Tegg, or a hack writer working for him. The bulk of the stories in the collection are short gothic tales set in various parts of Europe.
1 1 Dreadful History of Anaboo George Barrington [allonym] , 1803 single work short story romance horror
— Appears in: Barrington's Annals of Suicide, or Horrors of Self-Murder 1803; (p. 5-15) An early imaginary exploration of the 'dangers' of European-Aboriginal relationships, the 'Dreadful History of Anaboo' was written in London by a hack writer with no experience of Aboriginal culture, and the story thus conforms to generalised European notions of 'savage' society. The heroine Anaboo, moreover, is a stock tragic figure, whose love for a white man drives her to commit suicide.
1 y separately published work icon A Sequel to Barrington's Voyage to New South Wales George Barrington [allonym] , London : Charles Lowndes , 1800 6734532 1800 single work autobiography

"Like Barrington's A Voyage to New South Wales (1795), this narrative is written loosely around the life of George Barrington, but is more an account of events and conditions in the colony and at Norfolk Island which are clearly drawn from the narratives of Collins King, and Tench" (Walsh and Hooton 17).

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Walsh, Kay and Joy Hooton. Australian Autobiographical Narratives : An Annotated Bibliography. Canberra : Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, University College, ADFA and National Library of Australia, 1993.
2 2 y separately published work icon A Voyage to New South Wales George Barrington [allonym] , London : H. D. Symonds , 1795 Z1371375 1795 single work prose travel

A semi-fictional travelogue falsely attributed to the famous pickpocket and convict-constable George Barrington. A Voyage to New South Wales is comprised mainly of material plagiarised from the colonial officer John Hunter's published journal An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (London: Stockdale, 1793), but it also contains a number of fictional episodes revolving around the character of the ostensible author, George Barrington, which lent added interest to the work. The most popular and accessible, if not the most reliable, of the early accounts of the New South Wales colony, the plagiaristic A Voyage to New South Wales was itself pirated in numerous editions and versions, and was translated into French, Russian, Swedish and Spanish.
2 3 y separately published work icon A Voyage to Botany Bay with a Description of the Country, Manners, Customs, Religion, &c. of the Natives George Barrington [allonym] , 1795 London : C. Lowndes , 1795 20299918 1795 single work non-fiction
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