Sandes, John
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1863-1938) Irish-born journalist and author, in Australia from 1887, noted for a determinedly patriotic, Christian form of Australian nationalism; he also wrote as by Don Delaney. His first novel, Love and the Aeroplane: A Tale of Tomorrow (1910), is set in a distant Near Future Australia transformed by advances in Transportation, with monorails and other innovations. The story itself is a somewhat congested romance, built around the treatment of horses as pests whose extermination the government eagerly espouses. [JC]
John Sandes
born Cork, Ireland: 26 February 1863
died Wauchope, New South Wales: 29 November 1938
works (highly selected)
- Love and the Aeroplane: A Tale of Tomorrow (Sydney, New South Wales: New South Wales Bookstall Company, 1910) [hb/]
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