Boldrewood, Rolf

Boldrewood, Rolf

▪ Australian writer
pseudonym of  Thomas (Alexander) Browne 
born Aug. 6, 1826, London, Eng.
died March 11, 1915, Melbourne, Vic., Australia

      romantic novelist best known for his Robbery Under Arms (1888) and A Miner's Right (1890), both exciting and realistic portrayals of pioneer life in Australia.

      Taken to Australia as a small child, Boldrewood was educated there and then operated a large farm in Victoria for some years. He later worked in the New South Wales and Victoria goldfields as a police magistrate and goldfields commissioner. Adopting a pseudonym, he first wrote short stories, then composed his memoirs (Old Melbourne Memories, 1884), and finally wrote about 20 novels between 1878 and 1906.

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