George Darrell
George Darrell (1851–1921) was an Australian playwright best known for The Sunny South (1883).[1]
Darrell began his professional career with Simonson's Opera Company in New Zealand; but, on migrating to Melbourne, took to the regular dramatic profession, earning some distinction as a juvenile supporter of the once idolised Walter Montgomery.[2] He married Mrs. Robert Hair (née Fanny Cathcart), the admirable tragédienne, and subsequently visited professionally America and England, where, at the Grand Theatre, Islington, he produced his play The Sunny South.[2]
Select Writings
- The Squatter (1855)
- Man and Wife (1871)
- Matrimonial Manoeuvres (1872)
- Dark Deeds (1873)
- Friends of the Flag ; Or, The Struggle for Freedom (1874)
- Her Face, Her Fortune (1874)
- The Trump Card (1874)
- The Four Fetes (1875)
- Transported for Life (1876)
- Back from the Grave (18780
- The Forlorn Hope ; Or, A Tale of Tomorrow (1879)
- Solange (1882)
- The Naked Truth (1883)
- The Sunny South (1883)
- The Soggarth (1886)
- The New Rush (1886)
- Hue and Cry (1888)
- The Mystery of a Hansom Cab aka Midnight Melbourne (1888) – stage version of the Fergus Hume novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
- The Queen of Bohemia (1888)
- The Pakeha (1890)
- Mr Potter of Texas (1890)
- The Lucky Lot (1890)
- The Double Event (1893)
- The Crimson Thread (1894)
- Convict Once (1896)
- The Land of Dawning (1896)
- The Queen of Coolgardie (1897)
- The Sorrows of Satan (1897)
- The Light That Failed (1899)
- The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (1899)
- The Punter (1902)
- Sappho (1902)
- Justice or Murder (1902)
- Paris and Pleasure (1904)
- The Battle and the Breeze (1905)
- The Belle of the Bush (1916) – novel
References
- ↑ 'Darrell, George Frederick Price (1851–1921)' Van Der Poorten, Helen M.; Australian Dictionary of Biography; National Centre of Biography; Australian National University; accessed 6 December 2013.
- 1 2 Mennell, Philip (1892). " Darrel, George". The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co. Wikisource
External links
- George Darrell at AusLit
- George Darrell at State Library of New South Wales
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