A Bride from the Bush

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A Bride from the Bush
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Author E. W. Hornung
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesIvory Series
Subject Australia–United Kingdom relations
Published1890 (Smith, Elder & Co.)

A Bride from the Bush is the first novel written by E. W. Hornung. [1] He started writing the book while working as a tutor for Charles Joseph Parsons in Mossgiel Station, New South Wales, Australia. [2] The novel was initially published by Smith, Elder & Co. as a serial in the Cornhill Magazine , and then published in book format by the same company in October 1890. [3] As with Tiny Luttrell and The Unbidden Guest, two of Hornung's other early novels, A Bride from the Bush points out flaws in British society by presenting the country through an Australian perspective. [4] A reviewer from The New York Times called the novel "a most piquant contrast between civilization and crudity". [5] The writer Thomas Alexander Browne called the titular character of A Bride from the Bush "a libel to Australian womankind". [6] A Punch editor made the opposite claim, arguing that the protagonist of the novel is more kind-hearted and attractive than actual Australians. [7]

Hornung's later stories in the A. J. Raffles series achieved much more popularity than A Bride from the Bush. [8] Nonetheless, he himself liked A Bride from the Bush and his other Australian stories better than those of Raffles. [9] When he published the novel Peccavi in 1900, a critic from The Advertiser wrote a scathing review, writing that Hornung should go back to Australia so he would be inspired to write something as good as A Bride from the Bush again. [10] Upon Hornung's death, a tribute in The Freeman's Journal called A Bride from the Bush "the best and the best known" of Hornung's Australia-related stories. [11] In 1924 André Cœuroy and Theodore Baker argued in The Musical Quarterly that Hornung's characterisation of the novel's hero as being pitiable for being unable to appreciate anthems demonstrates that A Bride from the Bush is typical of other novels of the time in favouring vocal church music. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ Alison Cox. "E. W. Hornung". British Mystery Writers, 1860–1919. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Gale. 70: 172.
  2. ↑ Jennifer Gariepy, ed. (1985). "E.W. Hornung". Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 59. Detroit: Gale. ISBN   0-8103-9303-4.
  3. ↑ Peter Rowland (1999). Raffles and His Creator: The Life and Works of E. W. Hornung. London: Nekta Publications. p. 40.
  4. ↑ Stephen Knight. "Hornung, Ernest William (1866–1921)". Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Publishing. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
  5. ↑ "A Bride from the Bush". The New York Times . 6 February 1897. p. 7.
  6. ↑ "Our Anglo-Colonial Letter". The Chronicle : 19. 23 September 1893.
  7. ↑ "Our Booking-Office". Punch : 197. 25 April 1891.
  8. ↑ "The Reviewer". The Morning Bulletin : 8. 1 November 1926.
  9. ↑ Eric Gunton (28 April 1945). "How Australian Knew "Raffles"". The Argus : 12S.
  10. ↑ "Literary Notes from London". The Advertiser : 6. 23 January 1901.
  11. ↑ "Raffles and His Creator: The Passing of E. W. Hornung". The Freeman's Journal : 13. 16 June 1921.
  12. ↑ André Cœuroy; Theodore Baker (July 1924). "Musical Inspiration in English Literature of the Nineteenth Century". The Musical Quarterly . 10 (3): 324. doi:10.1093/mq/x.3.305.


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