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Ernest William Hornung was created about June 7th, 1866 throughout Middlesbrough, England. He
has been your third son involving John Peter Hornung, a Hungarian. Ernest spent nearly most of his
lifestyle throughout England as well as France, but in 1884 left for Australia and also stayed with
regard to two years where he working as getting a tutor from Mossgiel station.
After he returned from Australia inside 1886, he married Constance Doyle, the actual sister of Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle within 1893. Hornung printed the particular poems Bond along with free along
with Wooden Crosses in The Actual Times. the character associated with a J Raffles, a new
"gentleman thief," 1st appeared in the Strand then within various other British publications during
the 1890's. the stories were later on revealed within the Amateur Cracksman (1899), a new
collection. other titles within the series contain The Particular Black Mask (1901), a Thief within the
Night (1905), and furthermore the full-length novel Mr. Justice Raffles (1909).
After Hornung expended period within the trenches with
the troops in France, he published Notes of a Camp
Follower about the Western Front in 1919, reveal account
associated with his time there. other functions consist of
Any Bride from the Bush (1890), The Actual Boss of
Taroomba (1894), Rogue's March: The Romance (1896),
Peccavi (1900), Shadow of the Rope (1902), Denis Dent:
The Novel (1904), Stingaree (1905), Fathers of Men
(1912), Thousandth Woman (1913), Ballad associated with
Ensign Joy(1917), and the collections A Few persons Unidentified (1898), The Particular Crime
doctor (1914), as well as old Offenders along with a few Outdated Scores (1923).
Hornung died about March 22nd, 1921 inside St. Jean de Luz, France in the ages of fifty-five.
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