Hornung was educated at Uppingham. He went to Australia some time between 1884 and 1886 for his health, but returned to England in 1893 and married. He published his first novel, A Bride From the Bush, in 1890. This showed the Australian influence on him and he followed with The Boss of Taroomba in 1894, likewise with an Australian flavor. He is probably best-remembered as the creator of the scoundrel, but likeable, Raffles, who he introduced in The Amateur Cracksman (1899). Raffles appeared again in Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman (1901) and A Thief in the Night (1905). Among his other works are Dead Men Tell No Tales (1899), The Shadow of the Rope (1902) and Fathers of Men (1912). |
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