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Boldrewood, Rolf (1826 - 1915)

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    In Bad Company: and other stories
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    The last chance : a tale of the golden west
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Born
6 August 1826
London, England
Died
11 March 1915
South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
Alternative Names
  • Browne, Thomas Alexander (Birth name)

Summary

Boldrewood was born Thomas Alexander Browne in London, and came to Australia with his family at the age of five, where he was educated at Sydney College. From the 1840s to the 1860s Boldrewood owned and worked on several different cattle and sheep stations in NSW, before drought forced him to move to Sydney in 1869 with his wife and young family. His first novel, My Run Home (1874) was serialised initially in the Australian Town and Country Journal, and then later published as part of Macmillan's Colonial Library in 1897. Macmillan's Colonial Library also published his book of autobiographical sketches, Old Melbourne Memories (1884), and almost a dozen of his other novels, including his most famous work, Robbery Under Arms (1882). Boldrewood also wrote sketches and travel prose for newspapers, and numerous short stories, some of which were published in A Romance of Canvas Town and Other Stories (1898) and In Bad Company and Other Stories (1901).

Published resources

Books

  • Boldrewood, Rolf, A Romance of Canvas Town : and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1898, 339 pp. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, 514 pp. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, The last chance : a tale of the golden west, Macmillan, London, 1905, 461 pp. Details

Short Stories

  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'A Romance of Canvas Town', in A Romance of Canvas Town : and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1898, pp. 1-20. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'The Fencing of Wandaroona: A Riverina Reminiscence', in A Romance of Canvas Town : and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1898, pp. 21-152. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'The Governess of the Poets', in A Romance of Canvas Town : and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1898, pp. 153-250. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Our New Cook: A Tale of the Times', in A Romance of Canvas Town : and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1898, pp. 251-314. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Angels Unawares', in A Romance of Canvas Town : and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1898, pp. 315-339. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'The First Port Fairy Hunt', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 387-397. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Old Time Thoroughbreds', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 377-386. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Sydney Fifty Years Ago', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 369-376. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'My School Days', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 360-368. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'The Australian Native-Born Type', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 352-359. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Bendemeer', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 398-406. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'After Long Years', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 335-340. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'A Dry Time', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 461-465. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'In the Droving Days', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 341-350. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Sport in Australia', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 407-414. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Old Stock-Riders', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 415-421. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Ancient Sydney', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 321-334. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Walks Abroad', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 430-460. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'A Mountain Forest', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 255-260. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Australian Collies', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 466-473. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'In the Bloom of the Year', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 474-480. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Fallen Among Thives', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 481-490. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'A Transformation Scene', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 491-500. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Mount Macedon', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 422-429. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Five Men's Lives for One Horse', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 214-219. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'In Bad Company', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 1-134. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Morgan the Bushranger', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 135-145. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'How I Became A Butcher', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 146-164. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Moonlighting on the Macquarie', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 165-173. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'An Australian Roughriding Contest', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 174-181. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'The Mailman's Yarn', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 182-189. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Dear Dermot', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 190-198. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Bush Hospitality', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 282-287. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'A Kangaroo Shoot', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 208-213. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Shearing in Riverina, New South Wales', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 296-320. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Reedy Lake Station', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 220-233. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'A Forgotten Tragedy', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 234-240. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'The Horse You Don't See Now', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 241-248. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'How I Began to Write', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 249-254. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'The Free Selector - A Comedietta', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 261-281. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'In Bushranging Days', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 501-514. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'Lapsed Gentlefolk', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 288-295. Details
  • Boldrewood, Rolf, 'The Story of an Old Log-Book', in In Bad Company: and other stories, Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 199-207. Details

See also

  • Boldrewood, Rose, The Complications at Collaroi, John Ouseley, London, 1911, 304 pp. Preface by Rolf Boldrewood. Details
  • Moore, T. Inglis, 'Browne, Thomas Alexander [Rolf Boldrewood] (1826 - 1915)', in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 3, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 267-269. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030247b.htm. Details

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Papers, 1861-1922 - Rolf Boldrewood, 1861 - 1922, NLA MS 3208; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
  • Scrap album, 1891-1926 - Rolf Boldrewood, 1891 - 1926, NLA MS 8885; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

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