John David Hennessey

John David Hennessey (1847 – 1935), author, was born in London and went to Australia in 1875. He lived in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.

He was a Methodist and Congregational minister and did some religious journalism and general editing. He founded and edited the Australian Christian World from 1886 to 1891 and in 1894 the Australian Field, a weekly agricultural paper.

As well as short stories in magazines in Australia and England, he published several novels including:

• The Dis-Honourable (1895)
• An Australian Bush Track (1896)
• Wynnum (1896)
• A Lost Identity (1897)
• The Outlaw (1913)
• A Tail of Gold (1914)
• The Caves of Shend (1915)
• The Cords of Vanity (1920)
• The New Chum Farmer (1897)

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References

• The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, second edition, 1994, Oxford University Press.

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