author
Rolf Boldrewood
1826–1915
Best known for the classic bushranger novel Robbery Under Arms, this Australian writer drew on a life spent in the colonies, on the land, and in public service. His fiction helped shape how readers imagined nineteenth-century Australia.
16 Audiobooks
Robbery under Arms A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Australian Goldfields
by Rolf Boldrewood
"War to the Knife;" or, Tangata Maori
by Rolf Boldrewood
The Last Chance: A Tale of the Golden West
by Rolf Boldrewood
Nevermore
by Rolf Boldrewood
The Squatter's Dream: A Story of Australian Life
by Rolf Boldrewood
A Modern Buccaneer
by Rolf Boldrewood
Old Melbourne Memories Second Edition, Revised
by Rolf Boldrewood
In Bad Company, and other stories
by Rolf Boldrewood
The Ghost Camp; or, the Avengers
by Rolf Boldrewood
The Crooked Stick; Or, Pollie's Probation
by Rolf Boldrewood
Plain Living: A Bush Idyll
by Rolf Boldrewood
Babes in the Bush
by Rolf Boldrewood
Shearing in the Riverina, New South Wales
by Rolf Boldrewood
A Colonial Reformer, Vol. 1 (of 3)
by Rolf Boldrewood
A Colonial Reformer, Vol. 3 (of 3)
by Rolf Boldrewood
A Colonial Reformer, Vol. 2 (of 3)
by Rolf Boldrewood
About the author
Born Thomas Alexander Browne in London in 1826, he moved to New South Wales with his family as a child and grew up in the Australian colonies. Writing as Rolf Boldrewood, he became one of the best-known novelists of colonial Australia.
Before literary success, he worked in a wide range of roles, including life on pastoral stations and later service connected with the law and the goldfields. Those experiences fed directly into his fiction, which is full of bush life, frontier society, crime, and adventure.
His most famous book, Robbery Under Arms, was first published in serial form and remains a landmark of Australian literature. Boldrewood died in 1915, but his novels still stand out for their vivid sense of place and for the way they capture the rough energy of nineteenth-century Australia.