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  • These articles on notable events in early Australian history, which first appeared in the Australasian, are classified as fiction by Miller and Macartney.

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y separately published work icon Marcus Clarke : Novelist, Journalist and Bohemian Michael Wilding , North Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2021 21934899 2021 multi chapter work criticism

'Michael Wilding’s essays on Marcus Clarke’s life and works, from his schooldays at Highgate with Gerard Manley Hopkins to membership of the Melbourne Bohemian Yorick Club with Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall, and his associations with the Chief of Police Captain Frederick Standish, the Irish nationalist politician and political prisoner Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, and the President of the Melbourne Public Library Sir Redmond Barry.

'Essays on His Natural Life, Clarke’s classic novel of the convict system; on Chidiock Tichborne the historical romp about the Catholic conspiracy to replace Elizabeth I on the English throne with Mary, Queen of Scots, and spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham’s espionage operation to expose it; on Old Tales of a Young Country about the early years of European settlement and the brutalities of the convict system; on his journalism ranging from exposés of the lives of Melbourne’s down and outs and homeless, to reminiscences of the Theatre Royal’s Café de Paris, and the spoof account of the Melbourne Cup written by aid of a camera obscura; on his literary essays, reviews and obituaries of Bret Harte, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens and Adam Lindsay Gordon; and on his short stories, ranging from realistic accounts of his up-country days on sheep stations and mining towns in the Wimmera, and speculations on the alternative futures of what life might have been, to sensational tales of Gothic horror, crime mystery, fantasies of opium dreams and mesmeric trances, and sophisticated literary experiment in his account of taking hashish, ‘Cannabis Obscura’ and the premature post-modernism of ‘The Author Haunted by His Own Creations’.'

‘This is scholarly and very entertaining.’
– Sydney Morning Herald

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The Wild White Man : 'An Event under Description' Maggie Scott , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Creating White Australia 2009; (p. 140-155)
Beautiful Lies, Ugly Truths Laurie Hergenhan , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 187 2007; (p. 42-46)
Marcus Clarke: The Romance of Reality David Conley , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies in Journalism , no. 9 2000; (p. 51-74)
One of Australia's most durable novels, His Natural Life, has its beginnings in Clarke's journalism . This paper examines the extent to which Clarke's journalism influenced his fiction and argues he treated journalism and fiction as companions in language, information gathering, theme and truth telling.
Recollections Through English Spectacles Cliff Hanna , 1979 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 9 no. 2 1979; (p. 236-242)
Literary Notices 1872 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 13 January vol. 5 no. 106 1872; (p. 54)

— Review of Old Tales of a Young Country 1871 anthology short story prose
Untitled 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Clanalder Sennachie , December no. 103 1973; (p. 23-24)

— Review of Old Tales of a Young Country 1871 anthology short story prose
Untitled A. R. Chisholm , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 10 February 1973; (p. 15)

— Review of Old Tales of a Young Country 1871 anthology short story prose ; Poems [1913] C. J. Brennan , 1913 selected work poetry
Untitled M. Williams , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 May 1973; (p. 23)

— Review of Old Tales of a Young Country 1871 anthology short story prose
Marcus Clarke: The Romance of Reality David Conley , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies in Journalism , no. 9 2000; (p. 51-74)
One of Australia's most durable novels, His Natural Life, has its beginnings in Clarke's journalism . This paper examines the extent to which Clarke's journalism influenced his fiction and argues he treated journalism and fiction as companions in language, information gathering, theme and truth telling.
Beautiful Lies, Ugly Truths Laurie Hergenhan , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 187 2007; (p. 42-46)
The Wild White Man : 'An Event under Description' Maggie Scott , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Creating White Australia 2009; (p. 140-155)
Recollections Through English Spectacles Cliff Hanna , 1979 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 9 no. 2 1979; (p. 236-242)
Marcus Clarke's 'Old Tales of a Young Country' Michael Wilding , 1973 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 33 no. 4 1973; (p. 394-408)
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