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Appearance
John Arthur Barry | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1850 |
| Died | 23 September 1911 (aged 60–61) North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | journalist and author |
| Language | English |
| Years active | 1882–1907 |
John Arthur Barry (1850 – 23 September 1911) was a journalist and author.[1]
Barry was born in Torquay, Devonshire, England, in 1850.[1] He moved to Australia in the 1870s.
He returned to shipboard life around 1877 along the east coast of Australia for about two years.[2]
Barry died in Sydney on 23 September 1911 of chronic myocarditis.[1]
Bibliography
[edit]Novels
[edit]- The Luck of the Native Born (1898)
- A Son of the Sea (1899)
Short story collections
[edit]- Steve Brown's Bunyip and Other Stories (1893)
- In the Great Deep: Tales of the Sea (1896)
- Against the Tides of Fate (1899)
- Red Lion and Blue Star (1902)
- Sea Yarns (1910)
- South Sea Shipmates (1913)
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "John Arthur Barry (1850–1911)". John Arthur Barry (1850–1911) by H. P. Heseltine. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
- ↑ "Steve Brown's Bunyip and Other Stories by John Arthur Barry". Austlit. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
External links
[edit]- Works by or about John Arthur Barry at the Internet Archive
- Works by John Arthur Barry at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

- Works by John Arthur Barry at Project Gutenberg Australia
Categories:
- 1850 births
- 1911 deaths
- 19th-century Australian novelists
- Australian journalists
- Australian male journalists
- Australian male novelists
- Australian male short story writers
- British emigrants to the Colony of Queensland
- Australian sailors
- English sailors
- British Merchant Navy officers
- 19th-century Australian short story writers
- 19th-century male writers
- 20th-century Australian short story writers
- Australian stockmen
- Writers from the Colony of Queensland
- 19th-century Australian male writers
- Sailors from Devon
- Writers from Torquay