George Darrell

George Darrell (1851–1921) was an Australian playwright best known for The Sunny South (1883).^[1]

Darrell began his professional career with Simonson's Opera Company in New Zealand; but, on migrating to Melbourne, took to the regular dramatic profession, earning some distinction as a juvenile supporter of the once idolised Walter Montgomery.^[2] He married Mrs. Robert Hair (née Fanny Cathcart), the admirable tragédienne, and subsequently visited professionally America and England, where, at the Grand Theatre, Islington, he produced his play The Sunny South.^[2]

Select Writings

• The Squatter (1855)
• Man and Wife (1871)
• Matrimonial Manoeuvres (1872)
• Dark Deeds (1873)
• Friends of the Flag ; Or, The Struggle for Freedom (1874)
• Her Face, Her Fortune (1874)
• The Trump Card (1874)
• The Four Fetes (1875)
• Transported for Life (1876)
• Back from the Grave (18780
• The Forlorn Hope ; Or, A Tale of Tomorrow (1879)
• Solange (1882)
• The Naked Truth (1883)
• The Sunny South (1883)
• The Soggarth (1886)
• The New Rush (1886)
• Hue and Cry (1888)
• The Mystery of a Hansom Cab aka Midnight Melbourne (1888) – stage version of the Fergus Hume novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
• The Queen of Bohemia (1888)
• The Pakeha (1890)
• Mr Potter of Texas (1890)
• The Lucky Lot (1890)
• The Double Event (1893)
• The Crimson Thread (1894)
• Convict Once (1896)
• The Land of Dawning (1896)
• The Queen of Coolgardie (1897)
• The Sorrows of Satan (1897)
• The Light That Failed (1899)
• The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (1899)
• The Punter (1902)
• Sappho (1902)
• Justice or Murder (1902)
• Paris and Pleasure (1904)
• The Battle and the Breeze (1905)
• The Belle of the Bush (1916) – novel

References

1. 'Darrell, George Frederick Price (1851–1921)' Van Der Poorten, Helen M.; Australian Dictionary of Biography; National Centre of Biography; Australian National University; accessed 6 December 2013.
2. Mennell, Philip (1892). " Darrel, George". The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co. Wikisource 

External links

• George Darrell at AusLit
• George Darrell at State Library of New South Wales