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- y Henry Lawson : Selected Stories Brian Matthews (editor), Adelaide : Rigby , 1971 Z1216141 1971 selected work short story
- y Clara Morison : A Tale of South Australia during the Gold Fever London : John W. Parker , 1854 Z824970 1854 single work novel romance Adelaide : Rigby , 1971
- y The Tilted Cross London : Faber , 1961 Z27776 1961 single work novel historical fiction Adelaide : Rigby , 1971
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Moondyne : A Story from the Under-world
1878-1879
Z1213748
1878-1879
single work
novel
'Cross-cutting between England and Western Australia, which is described here as "a vast and unknown country, almost mysterious in its solitude and unlikeness to any other part of the earth," O'Reilly's novel mixes romance, transportation, and discussion of penal policy, with Moondyne Joe himself, a prisoner who escapes to the Australian bush, re-emerging subsequently as "Comptroller-General of Convicts in Australia," in which role he propounds a system of reform based upon "the radical principles of humanity".
'The novel's plot develops through a romance between an English Catholic with an Irish name, Will Sheridan, and his childhood sweetheart Alice Walmsley, who is wrongly convicted of murdering her own child and held in London's Millbank Prison, after being transported to Australia.'
Source: Giles, Paul. Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of U.S. Literature. USA: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Adelaide : Rigby , 1980