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Australian author, pseudonym of Arthur Hoey Davis, and best known for On Our Selection. Towards the end of 1895 Rudd sent a sketch based on his father's experience 'Starting the selection' to The Bulletin in which appeared on 14 December 1895. This afterwards became the first chapter of On Our Selection when it was published in 1899. Encouraged by J. F. Archibald, Davis continued the series of sketches, 26 of which were included in the volume. Within four years 20,000 copies had been printed. It afterwards appeared in numerous cheap editions and by 1940 the number of copies sold had reached…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Australian author, pseudonym of Arthur Hoey Davis, and best known for On Our Selection. Towards the end of 1895 Rudd sent a sketch based on his father's experience 'Starting the selection' to The Bulletin in which appeared on 14 December 1895. This afterwards became the first chapter of On Our Selection when it was published in 1899. Encouraged by J. F. Archibald, Davis continued the series of sketches, 26 of which were included in the volume. Within four years 20,000 copies had been printed. It afterwards appeared in numerous cheap editions and by 1940 the number of copies sold had reached 250,000. It has also been the subject of a play and more than one picture.
Autorenporträt
Steele Rudd was the pen name of Australian writer Arthur Hoey Davis (14 November 1868 - 11 October 1935), most famous for his collection of short stories On Our Selection. As part of the Q150 festivities in 2009, Rudd was recognized one of the Q150 Icons for his contributions to Queensland literature. Davis was born in Drayton, nearby Toowoomba, Queensland, the son of Thomas Davis (1828-1904), a blacksmith from Abernant in south Wales who arrived in Australia in 1847 as the result of a five-year petty theft belief, as well as Mary, née Green (1835-1893), an Irishwoman from Galway who was forced to emigrate due to the Fantastic Famine. In a family of 13, the boy was the eighth child and fifth son. Davis was schooled at the local school after his father took up a selection at Emu Creek. He dropped out of school before the age of 12 and worked odd jobs on a station until becoming a junior stockrider on a Darling Downs station at the age of 15.