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Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1846–1881)
Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop. An Australian novelist; born in London, April 24, 1846; died in Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 2, 1881. He went to the island in his twenty-fourth year, took up journalism, and acquired the experience of bush life and the knowledge of antipodean men and things of which such brilliant use is made in ‘For the Term of his Natural Life,’ a striking convict story; ‘Holiday Peak’; ‘Old Tales of a New Country’; and other vivid fictions. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).