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John Stanley James John Stanley James i(A18317 works by) (a.k.a. Julian Thomas)
Also writes as: Vagabond
Born: Established: 15 Nov 1843 Walsall, Staffordshire,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 10 Sep 1896 Fitzroy, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Vagabond Voyager : The Untold Story John Stanley James , Michael Cannon (editor), Inverloch : Michael Cannon , 2019 27066370 2019 selected work prose “This is the latest volume of selections from the work of John Stanley James, alias ‘Julian Thomas’, better known as ‘The Vagabond’. Under those guises, he roamed the 19th-century world, contributing many vivid reports and exposes to a variety of publications in Britain, America and Australia. This collection deals mainly with his travels in a Western world undergoing revolutionary changes in transport, industrial techniques, and social mobility. New introductory chapters written by family connections reveal for the first time much of the peculiar nature of the Vagabond’s family life and personal characteristics. As the reader will soon discover, this was no conventional author and journalist.”--Back cover.
1 The Sixpenny Restaurant, a Most Wonderful Example of Victorian Progress and Prosperity John Stanley James , 2016 extract prose (The Vagabond Papers : Sketches of Melbourne Life, in Light and Shade)
— Appears in: Inside Story , September 2016;

'Under his pseudonym “the Vagabond,” John Stanley James explored Australia’s major capital cities with fresh eyes in the 1870s and 80s. Here, he takes a culinary journey through Melbourne’s back streets' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon The Vagabond at Sleepy Hollow : Being Extracts from the Geelong Writings of John Stanley James 1889 Vagabond , Leslie James Blake (editor), Geelong : Geelong Historical Society , 1990 Z1133807 1990 single work prose travel
1 y separately published work icon Vagabond Country : Australian Bush & Town Life in the Victorian Age Vagabond Country : Australian Bush and Town Life in the Victorian Age Vagabond , Michael Cannon (editor), Melbourne : Hyland House , 1981 Z495603 1981 single work prose
1 y separately published work icon Western Australia Vagabond , Melbourne : J. W. Packer for David Syme , 1896 Z1133939 1896 single work prose travel
1 y separately published work icon Albury, the Border City : Supplement to the Albury Banner and Wodonga Express, 11th September, 1896. Vagabond , Albury : s.n. , 1896 Z1133803 1896 single work prose travel
1 y separately published work icon Picturesque Tasmania Vagabond , Melbourne : David Syme and Co. , 1894 Z1133942 1894 single work prose travel
1 y separately published work icon Holy Tonga Vagabond , Auckland : s.n. , 1890 Z1133789 1890 single work prose travel
1 Sorrow, Love and I Vagabond , 1889 single work poetry
— Appears in: Gags : A Miscellany in Prose and Verse, Forming the First Issue of the Australian Dramatic & Musical Journal for 1889 1889;
1 y separately published work icon 'The Vagabond's' Article on the Lakes Entrance, Gippsland Vagabond , Melbourne : s.n. , 1886 Z1133811 1886 single work prose travel
1 y separately published work icon Cannibals & Convicts : Notes of Personal Experiences in the Western Pacific Cannibals and convicts : Notes of Personal Experiences in the Western Pacific John Stanley James , London : Cassell , 1886 Z1133796 1886 single work prose travel
1 y separately published work icon Beaconsfield Vagabond , Melbourne : Stillwell , 1885 Z1133793 1885 single work prose travel
1 1 y separately published work icon Occident and Orient : Sketches on Both Sides of the Pacific Vagabond , Melbourne : George Robertson , 1882 Z1133800 1882 single work prose travel
1 2 No Mercy Vagabond , 1882 single work drama Set in Goulburn, New South Wales in 1860, the plot was advertised as being loosely adapted from La Morte Civile by Paolo Giacometti. It concerns Gerald Eyton, who accidentally kills his wife's brother during a quarrell and is transported to Australia. His wife and infant daughter later emigrate to the colony, where she eventually meets the widower Dr James Nestfield. A loving relationship develops and he raises the child, Alice, as his own. Some 14 years after his imprisonment, Eyton escapes from his Western Australian prison and makes his way to New South Wales. It is here that he accidentally discovers his wife and child and their new life.
1 3 The Nihilists ; Or, Russia as It Is England and Russia; Or, The White Hand Vagabond , 1880 single work drama The story concerns a group of Nihilists, led by the Countess Vera, who plot to free Russia by overthrowing the White Czar. A secondary storyline involves the triumph of faithful love over peril.
1 The Waifs and Strays of Sydney Vagabond , 1878 single work prose
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 January 1878; (p. 5)
1 y separately published work icon The Vagabond Annual Vagabond (editor), Sydney : Turner and Henderson , 1877 Z132789 1877 anthology short story poetry prose
3 4 y separately published work icon The Vagabond Papers : Sketches of Melbourne Life, in Light and Shade Vagabond , Melbourne : George Robertson , 1876-1878 Z1037174 1876-1878 selected work prose biography
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