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- Author:agent Marcus Clarke
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The Children's Suicide
Marcus Clarke
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1884
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novel
(His Natural Life)
— Appears in: The Marcus Clarke Memorial Volume 1884; (p. 223-224) Two child convicts approach their overseer's wife to ask about a friend of theirs. Their sad little faces so move her that she impulsively kisses and embraces them, bringing a brief moment of tenderness into their abject lives. Her husband, however, has a very different regard for the boys, and when they summon up the courage to escape forever his control, it is his wife's words they derive comfort from. -
Lost In the Bush
Marcus Clarke
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1884
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novel
(His Natural Life)
— Appears in: The Marcus Clarke Memorial Volume 1884; (p. 119-125) Escaped convict, Rufus Dawes, is washed up, exhausted, on the shore at Coal Head. Upon waking he finds the coal huts, and the provisions within, abandoned. He determines to take a supply of bread and meat with him, cross the desert in eighteen days, and reinvent himself as a free man. However, his plans go awry. -
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The Life of Rufus Dawes
Alfred Rolfe
,
( dir. Alfred Rolfe
)
Australia
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Spencer's Pictures
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1911
6186097
1911
single work
film/TV
historical fiction
crime
Contemporary advertisements give the following details:
'SYNOPSIS.
'ENGLAND. — Hampstead Heath — Sir Richard Devine slain by Rex — His Son Dick accused — Parson North denounces Rex.
'VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. — Convict Settlement at Hell's Gate — Chain Gang — Gabbet's Escape and Capture — Chaplain North gives the Convicts Tobacco — Major Vickers announces the removal to Port Arthur — The Attack — The Departure.
'THE MUTINY. — On Board the Osprey — Captured by Convicts — The Mutineers Maroon Survivors.
'MAROONED. — Two weeks later — Rufus Dawes saved by Sylvia Vickers Three months later — Major Vickers' search for the Castaways — Death of Mrs. Vickers — Sylvia's memory lost through shock — Lieut. Frere accuses Rufus of the crime.
'PORT ARTHUR. — Dawes escapes — Sylvia fails to recognise him — Her memory returning, she wishes to see him — Lady Devine arrives to see her son.
'THE END.— Convicts Confess, and Innocence Proved, and Pardon Granted to "RUFUS DAWES".'
Source:
[Advertisement], Examiner [Launceston, Tasmania], 23 January 1912, p.1.
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For the Term of His Natural Life
Marcus Clarke
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David Cope
(composer),
1927
(Manuscript version)8082029
8081975
1927
single work
lyric/song
Marcus Clarke's daughters, Rose Amelia Louisa Bradly and Ethel Marian Marcus Clarke, applied for the copyright of this song, adapted from Marcus Clarke's work, in 1927.
- y Permissible Costing : Patterend on Marcus Clarke's 'For the Term of His Natural Life' Jim Ryan , 1969 1969 (Manuscript version)x401738 Z1390670 1969 single work drama
- y The Castaways of Hell's Gates : Based on an Episode from Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life Marcus Clarke , Sue Phillips , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1982 Z966462 1982 single work children's fiction children's adventure
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The Valley of the Shadow of Death
Marcus Clarke
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1983-1970
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(His Natural Life)
— Appears in: Australian Horror Stories 1983; (p. 58-65) -
Breaking a Man's Spirit
Marcus Clarke
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1990
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(His Natural Life)
— Appears in: The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature 1990; (p. 146-149) -
The Fate of the Escapees
Marcus Clarke
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1993
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(His Natural Life)
— Appears in: The Penguin Book of 19th Century Australian Literature 1993; (p. 111-113) -
Extract - For the Term of His Natural Life
Marcus Clarke
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1995
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novel
(His Natural Life)
— Appears in: An Anthology of Australian Literature 1995; (p. 18-24) -
One Hundred Lashes
Marcus Clarke
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2004
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novel
(His Natural Life)
— Appears in: Australia Literature : Themes & Selected Readings 2004; (p. 2-11) -
From : His Natural Life
Marcus Clarke
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2009
extract
novel
(His Natural Life)
— Appears in: Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 177-184)
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