Genre Information At the Circulating Library

Genre: Australian Novel

Description: The following novels are set in or contain characters from Australia.

  1. Anonymous.  Sir Henry Delmé: A Love Story. By a Bushman.  2 vol.  London: Hugh Cunningham, 1841.
  2. Charles Rowcroft.  Tales of the Colonies: or, The Adventures of an Emigrant.  3 vol.  London: Saunders and Otley, 1843.
  3. Charles Rowcroft.  The Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land.  3 vol.  London: Smith, 1846.
  4. Alexander Harris.  The Emigrant Family: or, The Story of an Australian Settler.  3 vol.  London: Smith, Elder, 1849.
  5. Catherine Helen Spence.  Clara Morison: A Tale of South Australia during the Gold Fever.  2 vol.  London: John W. Parker, 1854.
  6. Ellen Louise Clacy.  Lights and Shadows of Australian Life.  2 vol.  London: Hurst and Blackett, 1854.
  7. Catherine Helen Spence.  Tender and True: A Colonial Tale.  2 vol.  London: Smith, Elder, 1856.
  8. William Howitt.  Tallangetta, the Squatter's Home: A Story of Australian Life.  2 vol.  London: Longman, 1857.
  9. Caroline Woolmer Leakey.  The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer.  2 vol.  London: Bentley, 1859.
  10. Henry Kingsley.  The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn.  3 vol.  London: Macmillan, 1859.
  11. Mary Theresa Vidal.  Bengala: or, Some Time Ago. A Tale.  2 vol.  London: John W. Parker, 1860.
  12. G. M. Sterne.  A Strong Will and a Fair Tide: A Novel.  3 vol.  London: T. C. Newby, 1860.
  13. Charles Dickens.  Great Expectations.  3 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1861.
  14. Colin Munro.  Fern Vale: or, The Queensland Squatter: A Novel.  3 vol.  London: T. C. Newby, 1862.
  15. Catherine Helen Spence.  Mr. Hogarth's Will.  3 vol.  London: Bentley, 1865.
  16. Catherine Helen Spence.  The Author's Daughter.  3 vol.  London: Bentley, 1868.
  17. Benjamin L. Farjeon.  Grif: A Story of Australian Life.  2 vol.  London: Tinsley Brothers, 1871.
  18. Marcus Clarke.  His Natural Life.  3 vol.  London: Bentley, 1875.
  19. John Service.  Lady Hetty: A Story of Scottish and Australian Life.  3 vol.  London: Daldy, Isbister, 1875.
  20. John Service.  Lady Hetty: A Story of Scottish and Australian Life.  3 vol.  London: Daldy, Isbister, 1875.
  21. William Lee Rees.  Sir Gilbert Leigh: or, Pages from the History of an Eventful Life.  2 vol.  London: Sampson Low, 1878.
  22. Rosa Caroline Praed.  An Australian Heroine.  3 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1880.
  23. Rosa Caroline Praed.  Policy and Passion: A Novel of Australian Life.  3 vol.  London: Bentley, 1881.
  24. Alexander Charles Grant.  Bush-Life in Queensland: John West's Colonial Experiences.  2 vol.  Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1881.
  25. Rosa Caroline Praed.  The Head Station: A Novel of Australian Life.  3 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1885.
  26. Francis William Lauderdale Adams.  Leicester: An Autobiography.  2 vol.  London: George Redway, 1885.
  27. Rosa Caroline Praed.  Miss Jacobsen's Chance: A Story of Australian Life.  2 vol.  London: Bentley, 1886.
  28. William Sharp.  The Sport of Chance.  3 vol.  London: Hurst and Blackett, 1888.
  29. Walter Besant.  The Bells of St. Paul's: A Romance.  3 vol.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1889.
  30. Eliza Margaret von Booth.  Sheba: A Study of Girlhood.  3 vol.  London: F. V. White, 1889.
  31. Catherine Edith Macauley Martin.  An Australian Girl.  3 vol.  London: Bentley, 1890.
  32. Rolf Boldrewood.  The Miner's Right: A Tale of the Australian Goldfields.  3 vol.  London: Macmillan, 1890.
  33. Rolf Boldrewood.  A Colonial Reformer.  3 vol.  London: Macmillan, 1890.
  34. Milner Macmaster.  Our Pleasant Vices.  3 vol.  London: Sampson Low, 1890.
  35. William Carleton Dawe.  The Golden Lake: or, The Marvellous History of a Journey Through the Great Lone Land of Australia.  1 vol.  London: Trischler, 1890.
  36. Francis William Lauderdale Adams.  John Webb's End: Australian Bush Life.  1 vol.  London: Remington, 1891.
  37. Catherine Edith Macauley Martin.  The Silent Sea.  3 vol.  London: Bentley, 1892.
  38. William Brown Churchward.  Jem Peterkin's Daughter: An Antipodean Novel.  3 vol.  London: Sonnenschein, 1892.
  39. Francis William Lauderdale Adams.  The Melbournians.  1 vol.  London: Remington, 1892.
  40. Francis William Lauderdale Adams.  Australian Life.  1 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1892.
  41. William Carleton Dawe.  Mount Desolation: An Australian Romance.  1 vol.  London: Cassell, 1892.
  42. Mrs. A. Blitz.  An Australian Millionaire.  3 vol.  London: Ward and Downey, 1893.
  43. Noel Hope.  Milliara: An Australian Romance.  2 vol.  London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893.
  44. Alfred Henry Lambton.  From Prison to Power: A Tale of Queensland.  2 vol.  London: Remington, 1893.
  45. William Carleton Dawe.  The Emu's Head: A Chronicle of Dead Man's Flat.  2 vol.  London: Ward and Downey, 1893.
  46. William Carleton Dawe.  The Pilgrims: A Bit of Cornwall in Australia.  2 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1894.
  47. William Carleton Dawe.  The Confessions of a Currency Girl.  3 vol.  London: Ward and Downey, 1894.
  48. Francis William Lauderdale Adams.  A Child of the Age.  1 vol.  London: John Lane, 1894.
  49. Rosa Caroline Praed.  Mrs. Tregaskiss: A Novel of Anglo-Australian Life.  3 vol.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1896.

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