| 词条 | George Firth Scott |
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He came to Australia and worked as a journalist for newspapers, including The Hobart Mercury[2] and the Sydney Daily Telegraph[3] and also contributed stories to magazines including Belgravia.[4] On 4 October 1889 he married Ailleen Murphy at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Brisbane.[5] Ailleen was the eldest daughter of John and Hannah (née Smith) Murphy. John Murphy who died in 1883, was police-magistrate at Roma, Queensland and had, on a number of occasions, been Mayor of Ipswich, Queensland.[6] Ailleen Scott gave birth to two children in Australia[7] after which the Scotts went to Great Britain and settled there permanently,[8][9] where Aillen gave birth to four more children. Following Aileen's death in 1919, in Surrey, England, George married Miss Gladys Tatham in London on 20 February 1920.[10][11] George Firth Scott died on 3 January 1935 at Surrey, England. He was survived by his second wife, Gladys.[12] Scott is best known for his novel The Last Lemurian: A Westralian Romance (1898), however he wrote many other novels and non-fiction works including the fiction titles, The Track of Midnight (1897), At Friendly Point (1898), Colonial Born: A Tale of the Queensland Bush (1900), The Twillford Mystery (1903), Possessed (1911), and The Rider of Waroona (1912). His non-fiction titles include The Romance of Australian Exploring (1899), From Franklin to Nansen: Tales of Arctic Adventure (1899), Britain's Austral Empire: Portraits of Statesmen (1901), The Romance of Polar Exploration (1906), Daring Deeds of Polar Explorers (1921), and The Reeling World (1931).[13] The Last Lemurian has been described as a "lost race romance" and has been compared with other works by Australian novelists including Ernest Favenc's The Secret of the Australian Desert (1896) and John David Hennessey's An Australian Bush Track (1896). The Last Lemurian includes pygmies, a bunyip-monster, a phosphorescent Yellow Queen (who has lived for thousands of years) and reincarnation. In the novel, the remains of the fabled Lemuria were discovered somewhere in the Australian desert. References1. ^Details on Queensland Marriage certificate 1889/B13568. 2. ^The Hobart Mercury 30 August 1899 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12752378 3. ^The Brisbane Courier 24 August 1901 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19089140 4. ^The Sydney Morning Herald 8 May 1897 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14111224 5. ^The Brisbane Courier Monday 4 November 1889 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3503443 6. ^Mayors of Ipswich http://blog.library.ipswich.qld.gov.au/lh/2010/07/12/mayors-of-ipswich/ accessed 8 October 2012 7. ^Queenslandd Births Deaths Marriages Online ref 1890/B46065, New South Wales Births Deaths Marriages Online ref. 32635/1892 8. ^South Australian Register 2 March 1900 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56550473 9. ^The Queenslander 21 September 1901 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21266495 10. ^The British Journal of Nursing, 13 March 1920 http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME064-1920/page160-volume64-13thmarch1920.pdf accessed 8 October 2012 11. ^Tatham Family History http://www.saxonlodge.net/getperson.php?personID=I1319&tree=Tatham accessed 8 October 2012 12. ^PROBATE NOTICE: SCOTT, George Henry Firth, of Gunyah Poultry Farm, Smallfield, Horley, Surrey died 3/1/1935. Probate London 22 February 1935 to Gladys Firth Scott widow. Effects £7.3.7. 13. ^Australian Literature, extended to 1950 by E. Morris Miller, p. 422. External links
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