Old Melbourne memories / by Rolf Boldrewood
- Bib ID:
- 791211
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Boldrewood, Rolf, 1826-1915
- Description:
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- Melbourne : George Robertson, 1884
- viii, 182 pages ; 20 cm.
- Summary:
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A collection of autobiographical reminiscences and anecdotes, first published in the Australasian, recollecting life during the early years of the Port Phillip District, and concluding with a selection of Boldrewood’s verse, apparently the only publication of his poetry in book form.
Brief references to hostility between natives and settlers; includes Chapter VIII; The native police account of incidents around authors run at Eumeralla.
- Notes:
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- Library's N copy inscribed "Jarret"; accessioned P7299, 8 Jun 1944. Bound in original yellowback boards, the front board illustrated with a wood engraving of an Aboriginal courting couple by Samuel Calvert.
- Library's NL (Petherick) copy has press clippings pasted inside front cover; inscribed on title page: "Arthur Patchee Martin, Dover Feb. 1888"; embossed Commonwealth Parliament Library, Petherick Collection. Spine rebacked in cloth.
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 7564
- Subject:
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- Gunditjmara / Gurndidy / Dhaurwurd-Wurrung people (S20) (Vic SJ54-11)
- Colonisation
- Race relations - Violent
- Law enforcement - Police - Native police
- Settlement and contacts - Settlers
- Animals - Livestock - Stealing and killing
- Victoria -- Social life and customs -- 1834-1900
- Victoria -- Description and travel -- 1851-1900
- Victoria -- Description and travel -- To 1850
- Eumeralla (W Vic SJ54-11)
- Victoria (Vic)
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1915
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1884
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