John David Hennessey
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John David Hennessey (1847 – 1935), author, was born in London and went to Australia in 1875. He lived in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
He was a Methodist and Congregational minister and did some religious journalism and general editing. He founded and edited the Australian Christian World from 1886 to 1891 and in 1894 the Australian Field, a weekly agricultural paper.
As well as short stories in magazines in Australia and England, he published several novels including:
- The Dis-Honourable (1895)
- An Australian Bush Track (1896)
- Wynnum (1896)
- A Lost Identity (1897)
- The Outlaw (1913)
- A Tail of Gold (1914)
- The Caves of Shend (1915)
- The Cords of Vanity (1920)
- The New Chum Farmer (1897)
[edit] References
- The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, second edition, 1994, Oxford University Press.
