Nineteenth-Century Novels Collection
Between 1861 and 1899, New Zealand produced dozens of works of literature. Novels written or set in New Zealand were published in London, Warsaw, and Melbourne as well as Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch. Shorter fiction appeared in local pamphlets and newspaper supplements. Many of these grappled with the pressing issues of the day—women’s rights, prohibition, welfare, race relations. Yet, in the intervening years, this thriving literary culture faded from memory. Later generations looked back on the works of nineteenth-century authors with a mixture of embarrassment and disappointment. ‘The probability is’, wrote E. H. McCormick in 1940, ‘that a fitting transcript of that period never reached the printing press’.
The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection’s Collection of Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Literature aims to restore this ‘lost’ body of literature to view. In partnership with the Alexander Turnbull Library and the J. C. Beaglehole Room at Victoria University of Wellington, we aim to produce a comprehensive on-line collection of nineteenth-century New Zealand novels. The corpus as it stands consists of 56 works, and will continue to be expanded over the next year. A comprehensive introduction by Jane Stafford and Mark Williams provides an overview and sets the works in context. We are pleased to announce also the online publication of Maoriland: New Zealand Literature, 1872-1914, by kind permission of Jane Stafford, Mark Williams, and Victoria University Press. Other supplementary texts will be added to the collection in 2009.
All the texts in this list (other than the three supplementary texts at the beginning) appear in chronological order.
- Introduction: "A land mild and bold, diffident and pertinent"
- Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872–1914
- 'Tableaux of Queerness': The Ethnographic Novels of John White
- The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman, Esquire, into Carnovirria, Taupiniera, Olfactaria, and Auditante, in New-Zealand; in the Island of Bonhommica, and in the Powerful Kingdom of Luxo-Volupto, on the Great Southern Continent
- Emily Bathurst; or, at Home and Abroad
- Taranaki: A Tale of the War
- Number One; or, The Way of the World
- Distant Homes; or the Graham Family in New Zealand
- Shadows on the Snow: A Christmas Story
- Grif: A Story of Colonial Life
- The Ships of Tarshish
- Holmwood, or, The New Zealand Settler: A Tale
- A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters
- Waihoura
- Erewhon
- Henry Ancrum: A Tale of the Last War in New Zealand, Volume 1
- Henry Ancrum: A Tale of the Last War in New Zealand, Volume 2
- The Story of Wild Will Enderby
- A Strange Friendship: A Story of New Zealand
- Over The Hills, and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand
- Maoria: A Sketch of the Manners and Customs of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of New Zealand.
- Amongst the Maoris: A Book of Adventure
- The Adventures of George Washington Pratt
- Tikera; or, Children of the Queen of Oceania
- The Boy Colonists
- Te Rou, or, The Maori at Home
- Ena, or, The Ancient Maori
- We Four, and the Stories We Told
- White Hood and Blue Cap: A Christmas Bough with Two Branches
- The Two Lawyers: A Novel
- Everything is Possible to Will.
- Philiberta: A Novel
- Frank Leward: Memorials
- Mrs. Lancaster’s Rival
- Craigielinn
- A Rolling Stone, Vol. I
- A Rolling Stone Vol. II
- A Rolling Stone Vol.III
- The Sunken Island. A Maori Legend: Occurring Ere the Time of Captain Cook.
- Hine-Ra, or The Maori Scout: A Romance of the New Zealand War.
- Mihawhenua: The Adventures of a Party of Tourists Amongst a Tribe of Maoris Discovered in Western Otago, New Zealand
- Raromi, or, The Maori Chief's Heir
- A Tragedy in Black and White and Other Stories
- The Ships of the Future
- Hunted
- By Passion Driven: A Story of a Wasted Life
- Anno Domini 2000; or, Woman's Destiny
- Dickey Barrett: with his ancient mariners and much more ancient cannon! At the siege of Moturoa: Being a realistic story of the rough old times in New Zealand, among the turbulent Maoris, and the adventurous whalers, ere settlement took place.
- Frank Melton's Luck, Or, Off to New Zealand
- Ko Méri, or, A Cycle of Cathay: A Story of New Zealand Life
- Philosopher Dick
- The Web of the Spider
- Vicissitudes of Bush Life in Australia and New Zealand
- Maori and Settler: A Story of the New Zealand War
- A Romance of Lake Wakatipu
- Potona or Unknown New Zealand
- Macpherson's Gully: A Tale of New Zealand Life
- A South-Sea Siren
- Ngamihi; or The Maori Chief's Daughter
- Utu: A Story of Love, Hate and Revenge
- Hedged with Divinities
- A New Zealand Courtship and other Work-A-Day Stories
- The Bird of Paradise
- The Expedition of Captain Flick: A Story of Adventure
- The Angel Isafrel: A Story of Prohibition in New Zealand
- "For Father's Sake," or A Tale of New Zealand Life
- The Counterfeit Seal: A Tale of Otago's First Settlers.
- Wheat in the Ear
- A Maori Maid
- In the Shadow of the Bush
- War to the Knife, or, Tangata Maori
- The Land of The Lost
- The Toll of The Bush
- The Heart of the Bush
- The Greenstone Door
- Ranolf and Amohia
- Revenge: A Love Tale of the Mount Eden Tribe
- Waitaruna: A Story of New Zealand Life
- Utu: A Story of Love, Hate and Revenge
- A Strange Friendship: A Story of New Zealand
- Over The Hills, and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand
- The Angel Isafrel: A Story of Prohibition in New Zealand
- The Bird of Paradise
- The Heart of the Bush
- A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters
- The Counterfeit Seal: A Tale of Otago's First Settlers.
- Raromi, or, The Maori Chief's Heir
- Everything is Possible to Will
- The Story of Wild Will Enderby
- A Romance of Lake Wakatipu
- Hine-Ra, or The Māori Scout: A Romance of the New Zealand War.
- The Boy Colonists
- Emily Bathurst; or, at Home and Abroad
- Shadows on the Snow: A Christmas Story