Douglas Blackburn
Douglas Blackburn (6 August 1857, Southwark – 28 March 1929, Tonbridge) was an English journalist and novelist, who worked in the Transvaal and Natal between 1892 and 1908. He has been called <sup class="noprint Inline-Template "noprint Inline-Template"" style="white-space:nowrap;">[check quotation syntax]"the great chronicler of the last days of the Boer republic.[1]
Works
- Novels
- Prinsloo of Prinsloosdorp: a tale of Transvaal officialdom, 1899
- A Burgher Quixote, 1903
- Richard Hartley, Prospector, 1904
- I Came and Saw, 1908
- Leaven, 1908
- Love Muti, Everett's, 1915
- Non-fiction
- Thought-reading, or, Modern mysteries explained: being chapters on thought-reading, occultism, mesmerism, &c., forming a key to the psychological puzzles of the day, 1884
- (with W. C. Caddell) The Detection of Forgery: a practical handbook for the use of bankers, solicitors, magistrates' clerks, and all handling suspected documents, 1909
- (with W. C. Caddell) Secret Service in South Africa, 1911
- The Martyr Nurse: the death and achievement of Edith Cavell, 1915
References
- ↑ Gray, Stephen (1999). "Douglas Blackburn". Free-=lancers and Literary Biography in South Africa. Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp. 13–58. ISBN 90-420-0666-8.
Further reading
- Trevor H. Hall (1964). The Strange Case of Edmund Gurney. Duckworth.
External links
- Works by Douglas Blackburn at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Douglas Blackburn at Internet Archive
- Works by Douglas Blackburn at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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