The Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project (ACDP) 1840-1845: Novels

Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project 1840-45 National Library of Australia

The Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project created a digital library of Australian journals, newspapers and novels published in the period 1840-1845.

SETIS is host to the four novels included in the project. Ascii text files resulting from optical character recognition of 600dpi bw tiff images were subsequently encoded at SETIS according to the guidelines developed by the Text Encoding Initiative. The novels are listed below for browsing but may also be searched for keywords and phrases.

NOTE: These texts are also available with other texts by Australian authors at the SETIS Australian Literature page. This currently includes works by Marcus Clarke, Henry Lawson and Catherine Spence and others and is under development with new texts being added.

Christie, William Harvey

Love Story / By a Bushman (Sydney: Kemp and Fairfax 1841)
Text (pdf) | Page Images

Rowcroft, Charles

Tales of the Colonies (London: Saunders and Otley 1843. Three volumes)
Text (pdf) | Page Images

McCombie, Thomas

Adventures of a Colonist (London: John and Daniel Darling 1845)
Text (pdf) | Page Images

Vidal, Mary

Tales of the Bush (Sydney: Welch 1845)
Text (pdf) | Page Images

Search Keywords -- you can restrict the general search form to any of the ACDP authors to search keywords within these texts.

Copyright for the electronic versions of novels included within the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project 1840-1845 resides with the University of Sydney Library, State Library of NSW, National Library of Australia and Monash University Library.