Guy Boothby

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Guy Newell Boothby (born October 13, 1867 in Adelaide , Australia , † February 26, 1905 in Bournemouth , England ) was an Australian writer.

Life

Boothby was a son of Australian MP Thomas Wilde Boothby. His grandfather was Benjamin Boothby, a former Supreme Court Justice of South Australia .

Boothby spent his school days in Salisbury (near Adelaide) and later at "Christ's Hospital" in London . Boothby began his first literary attempts during his school days. In 1890 a libretto "Sylvia" was created, which was published in December of the same year and in the following year Boothby wrote the opera "The Jonquil".

Boothby earned his living as secretary to the Mayor of Adelaide. As such, he went on a study tour of Australia with his brother Benjamin. He published the experiences of this enterprise in 1894 under the title "On the Wallaby or through the East and across Australia"; his brother provided the illustrations.

In late 1894 Boothby went to England and settled in Bournemouth. He lived there until the end of his life.

reception

With a few exceptions, Boothby's work (over 50 titles) has been forgotten today. The horror novel "Pharos, the Egyptian" was reprinted in German translation a few years ago. His Nikola series is worth mentioning because the main character resembles Doctor Mabuse , whose inventor Norbert Jacques was almost Boothby's contemporary. In 2010, Wurdack-Verlag started a series of new German editions of this series.

In 2012 Wurdack-Verlag started a series of sequels to the adventures Doctor Nikolas. The authors are the translator of the four Nikola novels Michael Böhnhardt and the writer Petra Hartmann :

Furthermore, Boothby created the character of the gentleman crook Simon Carne in 1897 . Famous figures such as AJ Raffles and Arsène Lupine followed this criminal type.

bibliography

Doctor Nikola
  • 1 A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta (1895; also: Enter Dr. Nikola!, 1975; also: A Bid for Fortune ; also: Dr. Nikola's Vendetta; or, A Bid for Fortune , 1908)
    • English: The revenge of Doctor Nikola. Translated by Michael Böhnhardt. Wurdack, Nittendorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-938065-61-7 (with biographical introduction, list of Nikola novels and other works by Boothby).
  • 2 Dr. Nikola (1896; also: Dr. Nikola Returns , 1976)
    • English: The expedition of Doctor Nikola. Translated by Michael Böhnhardt. Wurdack, Nittendorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-938065-63-1 (with information on the German translation from 1912 and the Boothby plagiarism in "The man with the devil's eyes", published in 1906 by Münchmeyer).
  • 3 The Lust of Hate (1898)
  • 4 Dr. Nikola's Experiment (1899)
    • English: The experiment of Doctor Nikola. Wurdack, Nittendorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-938065-73-0 (with information about the omitted novel The Lust of Hate and Boothby's short story A Professor of Egyptology - A History in Egypt ).
  • 5 'Farewell, Nikola' (1901)
    • English: The Palazzo of Doctor Nikola. Translated by Michael Böhnhardt. Wurdack, Nittendorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-938065-74-7 (with Boothby's obituary from The Advertiser , Adelaide, March 1, 1905 as well as a bibliography of the German-language Boothby novels and short stories and the story A strange Goldfield - Das verunschene Goldfeld ).
  • Doctor Nikola, Master Criminal (collective edition from 1–2; 2009)
Novels
  • On the Wallaby: or, Through the East and Across Australia (experience report, 1894)
  • In Strange Company: a Story of Chili and the Southern Seas (1894)
  • A Lost Endeavor (1895)
  • The Marriage of Esther: a Torres Straits Sketch (1895)
  • The Beautiful White Devil (1897)
  • Bushigrams (1897)
  • The Fascination of the King (1897)
  • The Phantom Stockman (1897)
  • Sheila McLeod: a Heroine of the Back Blocks (1897)
  • The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds (1897)
  • The Beautiful White Devil (1897)
  • Across The World For a Wife (1898)
  • Pharos the Egyptian (1898)
    • English: Pharos the Egyptians. With illustrations by Timo Pfeifer. Based on the translation by Klara Berger. Completely revised and with an afterword by Karsten Schröder. Gollenstein, ISBN 978-3-933389-14-5 .
  • Love Made Manifesto (1899)
  • The Red Rat's Daughter (1899)
  • A Sailor's Bride (1899)
  • "Long Live the King!" (1900)
  • A Maker of Nations (1900)
  • A Prince of Swindlers (1900) (AKA The Viceroy's Protegé )
  • The Woman of Death (1900)
  • A Cabinet Secret (1901)
  • A Millionaire's Love Story (1901)
  • My Indian Queen: Being a Record of Sir Charles Verrinder, Baronet, in the East Indies (1901)
  • The Mystery of the Clasped Hands (1901)
  • The Rickshaw: a Farce in Two Acts (1901)
  • My Strangest Case (1901)
  • The Childerbridge Mystery (1902)
  • The Curse of the Snake (1902)
  • The Kidnapped President (1902)
  • Uncle Joe's Legacy: and Other Stories (1902)
  • Connie Burt (1903)
  • The Countess Londa (1903)
  • The League of Twelve (1903)
  • A Queer Affair (1903)
  • A two-fold inheritance (1903)
  • A Bid for Freedom (1904)
  • A Bride from the Sea (1904)
  • A Consummate Scoundrel (1904)
  • A Desperate Conspiracy (1904)
  • An Ocean Secret (1904)
  • A Brighton Tragedy (1905)
  • A Crime of the Under-seas (1905)
  • For Love of Her (1905)
  • In Spite of the Czar (1905)
  • A Lost Endeavor (1905)
  • The Race of Life (1906)
  • A Stolen Peer (1906)
  • The Man of the Crag (1907)
  • In the Power of the Sultan (1908)
Collections
  • Billy Binks, Hero and Other Stories (1898)
  • The Lady of the Island (1904)
  • A Royal Affair: and Other Stories (1906)
Short stories

1904:

  • The Black Lady of Brin Tor (1904, in: Guy Boothby: The Lady of the Island )
  • Bones, Imperialist (1904, in: Guy Boothby: The Lady of the Island )
  • A Close Thing (1904, in: Guy Boothby: The Lady of the Island )
  • The Convict Catcher (1904, in: Guy Boothby: The Lady of the Island )
  • For Love or Lucre (1904, in: Guy Boothby: The Lady of the Island )
  • The Lady of the Island (1904, in: Guy Boothby: The Lady of the Island )
  • My Mysterious Bushman (1904, in: Guy Boothby: The Lady of the Island )
  • A Professor of Egyptology (1904, in: Guy Boothby: The Lady of the Island )
  • A Rogue's Sacrifice (1904, in: Guy Boothby: The Lady of the Island )
  • A Strange Goldfield (1904, in: Guy Boothby: The Lady of the Island )
  • Treason by Football (1904, in: Guy Boothby: The Lady of the Island )

1929:

  • The Treasure of Sacramento Nick (1929, in: Thrillers )

1979:

  • Remorseless Vengeance (1979, in: Hugh Lamb (Ed.): Tales from a Gas-Lit Graveyard )

1994:

  • With Three Phantoms (1994, in: Ken Gelder (Ed.): The Oxford Book of Australian Ghost Stories )

2007:

  • The Death Child (2007, in: James Doig (Ed.): Australian Gothic: An Anthology of Australian Supernatural Fiction: 1867-1939 )
drama
  • Sylvia, or, The Marquis and the maid: Comic Opera in Two Acts (1890, music by Cecil James Sharp)
  • The Jonquille: A Romantic Drama in Four Acts (1891, music by Cecil James Sharp; also: The Jonquil )
  • The Boundary Rider: A Play in One Act (1901)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Boothby, guy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boothby, Guy Newell (full name); Boothby, Guy N. (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelaide , Australia
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1905
Place of death Bournemouth , England