Author: HERGENHAN, LAURIE; STEWART, KEN; WILDING, MICHAEL; Editors.
Title: Cyril Hopkins' Marcus Clarke. Edited from the manuscript in the Mitchell Library.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. xlviii, 339; illustrated with 20 pages of b/w. photographic plates, provenance of the manuscript, notes, bibliography, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, very good copy. North Melbourne; Australian Scholarly Publishing; 2009. This biography of Marcus Clarke was written a century ago by Cyril Hopkins, brother of Gerard Manley Hopkins and a close friend of Clarke, and is published now for the first time. Drawing on memories of their schooldays together in Highgate and Clarke's letters from Australia, Hopkins gives a fascinating picture of the mercurial immigrant's ups and downs as he moves from banking to jackarooing, before emerging as a controversial journalist in Melbourne's cafe society. Clarke's career as theatre critic, Bohemian bon viveur, librarian and author of the classic novel His Natural Life is vividly and movingly captured, along with the bustling and variegated character of a colonial city, the outback mining towns and the remote unexplored bush.
Keywords: biography marcus clarke literature victoria
Title: Cyril Hopkins' Marcus Clarke. Edited from the manuscript in the Mitchell Library.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. xlviii, 339; illustrated with 20 pages of b/w. photographic plates, provenance of the manuscript, notes, bibliography, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, very good copy. North Melbourne; Australian Scholarly Publishing; 2009. This biography of Marcus Clarke was written a century ago by Cyril Hopkins, brother of Gerard Manley Hopkins and a close friend of Clarke, and is published now for the first time. Drawing on memories of their schooldays together in Highgate and Clarke's letters from Australia, Hopkins gives a fascinating picture of the mercurial immigrant's ups and downs as he moves from banking to jackarooing, before emerging as a controversial journalist in Melbourne's cafe society. Clarke's career as theatre critic, Bohemian bon viveur, librarian and author of the classic novel His Natural Life is vividly and movingly captured, along with the bustling and variegated character of a colonial city, the outback mining towns and the remote unexplored bush.
Keywords: biography marcus clarke literature victoria
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- Book number: 115366
- Book number: 115366