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Earle, Horace (1831 - 1919)

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    Ups and downs, or, Incidents of Australian life
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Born
1831
London, England
Died
1919
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Summary

Earle was born in London and educated at Highbury College. A teacher in Singapore, he later emigrated to Victoria to work in the goldfields and was in Ballarat during the Eureka Stockade. He was later employed by the East India Company, returning to Australia to settle in Brisbane where he worked as an accountant and then a journalist, becoming the editor of the Mercantile Gazette. Earle developed his literary interests too, publishing short stories and going on to found, with James Brunton Stephens, Brisbane's influential Johnsonian Club. His best-known book is Ups and Downs; or, Incidents of Australian Life (1861).

Published resources

Books

  • Earle, Horace, Ups and downs, or, Incidents of Australian life, A.W. Bennett, London, 1861, 356 pp. Details

Short Stories

  • Earle, Horace, 'The Hurricane, or, False Friends', in Ups and downs, or, Incidents of Australian life, A.W. Bennett, London, 1861, pp. 341-356. Details
  • Earle, Horace, 'The Catastrophe, or, the Three Italian', in Ups and downs, or, Incidents of Australian life, A.W. Bennett, London, 1861, pp. 327-340. Details
  • Earle, Horace, 'The Dilemma', in Ups and downs, or, Incidents of Australian life, A.W. Bennett, London, 1861, pp. 302-327. Details
  • Earle, Horace, 'Jem Brentom, or, The Road to the Diggings', in Ups and downs, or, Incidents of Australian life, A.W. Bennett, London, 1861, pp. 273-301. Details
  • Earle, Horace, 'Traps and Commissioner, or, "Show Your License"', in Ups and downs, or, Incidents of Australian life, A.W. Bennett, London, 1861, pp. 259-272. Details
  • Earle, Horace, 'The Bush On Fire', in Ups and downs, or, Incidents of Australian life, A.W. Bennett, London, 1861, pp. 250-258. Details
  • Earle, Horace, 'Revenge, or, Jem Dalton', in Ups and downs, or, Incidents of Australian life, A.W. Bennett, London, 1861, pp. 230-249. Details
  • Earle, Horace, 'Ned White, or, The Shepherd's Hut', in Ups and downs, or, Incidents of Australian life, A.W. Bennett, London, 1861, pp. 217-229. Details
  • Earle, Horace, 'The Potato Salesman, or, Necessity v. Money', in Ups and downs, or, Incidents of Australian life, A.W. Bennett, London, 1861, pp. 208-216. Details
  • Earle, Horace, 'The Landing, or, Smallpins in Trouble', in Ups and downs, or, Incidents of Australian life, A.W. Bennett, London, 1861, pp. 186-207. Details
  • Earle, Horace, 'Harry Christmas, or, A Row in the Steerage', in Ups and downs, or, Incidents of Australian life, A.W. Bennett, London, 1861, pp. 156-185. Details
  • Earle, Horace, 'The Stockman', in Ups and downs, or, Incidents of Australian life, A.W. Bennett, London, 1861, pp. 1-155. Details

Rachael Weaver

Created: 1 May 2008, Last modified: 10 June 2015