Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E850005-001
The Moondyne
Author: John Boyle O'Reilly
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2. Second draft, revised and corrected.
Extent of text: 105770 words
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Text ID Number: E850005-001
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Copyright for the introduction rests with its author, Susanna Ashton. The introduction is published in electronic form with kind permission of the author.
Notes
The text file of The Moondyne was donated to the CELT project by Susanna Ashton.
Sources
Editions- Moondyne: A Study from Underworld (New York: Kennedy, 1879). [Variant titles include Moondyne: a story of convict life (London: Routledge, 188_) and an Australian version, The Golden Secret, or Bond and Free/a Tale of Bush and Convict Life. (Melbourne, Australia: E.W. Cole, 189_)].
Further reading (including cited works)- Interview with O'Reilly from an unnamed and undated newspaper (possibly the Daily Star?), p. 54. John Boyle O'Reilly papers, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.
- Promotional insert, tipped into the final signature of an edition of O'Reilly's poetry, In Bohemia. (Boston: The Pilot Publishing Company,1886).
- John R. Betts, "John Boyle O'Reilly and the American Paideia," Éire Ireland 2 (1967): 36-37.
- John R. Betts, "The Negro and the New England Conscience in the Days of John Boyle O'Reilly," Journal of Negro History, 51 (1966): 246-61.
- Van Wyck Brooks, New England Indian Summer: 1865-1915 (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1940).
- Veronica Brady, "History, Literature and J.B. O'Reilly," Westerly, 4 (Dec. 1977): 47-59.
- Veronica Brady, "The Innocent Gaze: John Boyle O'Reilly's 'The King of the Vasse," Kunapipi, 16.2 (1994), 1-6.
- Con Costello, Botany Bay. The Story of the Convicts Transported from Ireland to Australia, 1791-1853 (Cork and Dublin: The Mercier Press, 1987).
- A.G. Evans, Fanatic Heart. A Life of John Boyle O'Reilly 1844-1890 (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997.)
- TerryGoldie, "Emancipating the Equal Aborigine: J.B. O'Reilly and A. J. Vogan," SPAN (South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) 20 (April 1985): 44-66.
- Ian Kenneally: From The Earth, A Cry: the story of John Boyle O?Reilly (The Collins Press, Ireland) 2011
- "John Boyle O'Reilly Obituary," Harper's Weekly, no. 34 (August 1890): 664.
- Roger Lane, "James Jeffrey Roche and the Boston Pilot," The New England Quarterly, 33.3 (Sept. 1960): 341-363.
- Robert H. Lord et. al., History of the Archdiocese of Boston in the various stages of its development, 1604-1943, 3 vols. (New York: Sheet & Ward, 1944).
- John Boyle O'Reilly, Editorial, Pilot 23 July 1870. 1.
- John Boyle O'Reilly, Editorial, Pilot 18 Jan. 1890. 1.
- John Boyle O'Reilly, Editorial, Pilot 28 Dec. 1889. 1.
- John Boyle O'Reilly, Editorial, Pilot 31 Aug. 1878. 1.
- John Boyle O'Reilly, to Alfred Webb, 23 October 1889. National Library, Dublin.
- Z. W. Pease, The Catalpa Expedition (New Bedford, MA: G. S. Anthony, 1897).
- John Watson (ed.), 100 years ago. A special collection of papers on the background and significance of THE FENIAN ESCAPE FROM FREMANTLE WESTRN AUSTRALIA EASTER 1876, (Perth: University of Western Australia, 1976).
- Susanna M. Ashton, "O'Reilly and the Moondyne". History Ireland 10:1 (Spring 2002) 3842.
The edition used in the digital edition- The Moondyne. John Boyle O'Reilly
The Moondyne. First Edition [255 pp.] George Robertson PublicationsMelbourne (1878) (reprinted 1880.)
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Created: By John Boyle O'Reilly
(1878)
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Language: [EN] Introduction and text are in English.
Revision History
- (2011-11-16)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- Items added to bibliographic details; minor changes to header made; new wordcount made, new GSML and HTML files created.
- (2008-07-30)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- Keywords added; new wordcount made;
- (2005-08-25)
Julianne Nyhan (ed.)
- Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion
- (2005-08-04T14:31:19+0100)
Peter Flynn (ed.)
- Converted to XML
- (2002-02-06)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- HTML file created.
- (2002-01-31)
Susanna Ashton (ed.)
- Bibliography inserted.
- (2001-12-20)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- Third proofing of text.
- (2001-12-05)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- Structural markup of text completed; file parsed using NSGMLS.
- (2001-08-16)
Julianne Nyhan (ed.)
- Structural markup of introduction completed.
- (2001-07-02)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- Introduction converted to ascii; structural markup of introduction begun.
- (2001-07)
Susanna Ashton (ed.)
- Final proofing and standardizing of text.
- (2001-07)
Jennifer Cooper and Steven Clodfelter, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA (ed.)
- Text captured by scanning and proofed.
- (2001-06-24)
Susanna Ashton, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA (ed.)
- Introduction written and converted to txt.format.