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Article: Rolf Boldrewood: a Life.(Book Review)
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- Australian Literary Studies
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- October 1, 2003
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by Paul de Serville. Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 2000. Miegunyah Press Series. $59.95.
This is a fascinating subject for a biography. Thomas Browne was author of one of the best-known Australian novels of the nineteenth century, Robbery under Arms, a book that celebrates bushrangers Dick and Jim Marsdon, and their charismatic, aristocratic leader 'Starlight'. Browne, who generally wrote under the pseudonym 'Rolf Boldrewood', produced nearly twenty novels--many of them first written for serial publication--published between 1873 and 1905. The writer has already been the subject of a biography by Tom Inglis Moore, published in 1968 in OUP's 'Great ...