George Rusden's three volume History of Australia is published

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Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.07: English Writing and Culture of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901.
Vol. editors: Gillian Fenwick (University of Toronto), Grace Moore (University of Otago)

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Date of occurrence 1883

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United Kingdom (Location)
Australia (Involved)

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George Rusden was born in Surrey, but in 1835, when he was sixteeen, his father was appointed a chaplain at Maitland, in New South Wales, and the family emigrated to Australia. As well as visiting and working for a time in China, Rusden worked for the civil service in Melbourne. His 1883 History of Australia and its companion text, . It had a mixed reception, since Rusden had taken some of his sources' statements at face value, including some about a New Zealand politician, John Bryce, in response to which Bryce sued for damages. Eventually the case was settled with a payment from Rusden of £3675, but this was a costly mistake. In 1888 he published an even more contentious volume, Aureretanga: …

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