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Buffalo Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke FRSA (24 April 1846 – 2 August 1881) was an English-born Australian novelist, journalist, poet, editor, librarian, and playwright. He is best known for his 1874 novel For the Term of His Natural Life, about the convict system in Australia, and widely regarded as a classic of Australian literature.
Marcus Clarke (born April 24, 1846, London, England—died August 2, 1881, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) was an English-born Australian author known for his novel His Natural Life (1874), an important literary work of colonial Australia.
For the Term of His Natural Life is a story written by Marcus Clarke and published in The Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 (as His Natural Life). It was published as a novel in 1874 and is the best known novelisation of life as a convict in early Australian history . [1]
Marcus Clarke. 3.95. 2,912 ratings193 reviews. The most famous work by the Australian novelist and poet, For the Term of His Natural Life is a powerful tale of an Australian penal settlement, which originally appeared in serial form in a Melbourne paper.
Marcus Clarke (born April 24, 1846, London, England—died August 2, 1881, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) was an English-born Australian author known for his novel His Natural Life (1874), an important literary work of colonial Australia.
Clarke - journalist, poet, bon vivant and novelist - was the author of For the Term of his Natural Life, described by his biographer Brian Elliott as the only truly monumental work of literature in the first 100 years of Australian history, and a book that has never been out of print.
Australian writer Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke, known as Marcus Clarke, was born in Kensington, London. His mother died when he was just a small child and he was raised by his father, a lawyer. Marcus Clarke moved to Victoria, Australia, where he had an uncle in the provincial town of Ararat, and landed in Melbourne in June 1863.
Biography. Novelist, playwright, journalist, author. OVERVIEW. One of the most successful writers in Australia during the last half of the nineteenth century and author of His Natural Life, arguably the most famous Australian novel of that period, Marcus Clarke produced a prodigious quantity of literary and journalistic writing in the fourteen ...
Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1846-1881), journalist and novelist, was born on 24 April 1846 at 11 Leonard Place, Kensington, London, the only child of William Hislop Clarke, a Chancery lawyer, and his wife Amelia Elizabeth, née Matthews.
Sep 27, 2023 · Nineteenth-century Melbourne author Marcus Clarke’s most famous and enduring work is his powerful indictment of the brutality of the convict era, His Natural Life (later For the Term of His Natural Life ). While that work is dark and tragic, his prolific and varied writing was often satiric and witty.
