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John Lang's Works

John Lang wrote over twenty novels and most of them were published anonymously in India as serials in his newspaper The Mofussilite. At least five of his novels were never published as books but appeared only as serials. The Mulini Press is in the process of publishing these unknown novels. Some of his works have an Australian setting and other are set in India and England. He also wrote stories and articles on the Indian people with others set in England.

Lang is best known in Australia for his novel The Forger's Wife and his collec-tion of short sketches and stories called Botany Bay or True Tales of Early Australia which was reprinted by the Mulini Press in 1994. It included the now well known story 'Fisher's Ghost' or 'The Ghost on the Rail'.

John Lang's books already in print in addition to Botany Bay, published by the Mulini Press are his early works, Legends of Australia No.1. Frederick Charles Howard (1842), Raymond (1840), Mazarine (1845), Lucy Cooper (1846) and Botany Bay (1859). In preparation is Lang's last novel Ellen Wareham (1862) which was never published as a book. The Mulini Press plans to publish Lang's first novel Violet the Danseuse (1836) in 2006.


John Lang's Novels and Serials
Arranged chronologically by date of first publication

1		  
Violet the Danseuse. A Portraiture of Human Passion and Character
London, Colburn,1836
(numerous other editions)
(as a serial in The Mofussilite 1848)

2		  
Raymond
(a serial in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1840)
(a serial in The Mofussilite 1862)
as a book. Canberra, Mulini Press, 2004 [Show details]

3		  
Legends of Australia No.1 Frederick Charles Howard
Sydney, James Tegg, 1842
reprint: Canberra, Mulini Press, 1989 [Show details]

4		  
Legends of Australia No.2 James Nox
(not completed)

5		  
Recollections of the Late Jack Weatherly by his brother Jeffrey
(a serial in The Mofussilite (India)1845) (not completed)

6		  
Mazarine
(a serial in The Mofussilite (India) 1845 and repeated 1861)
as a book Canberra, Mulini Press, 2004 [Show details]

7		  
Passages in the Life of an Undergraduate
(as a serial in The Mofussilite (India) 1846-47 and repeated in 1862)
as a book Meerut , India, G.A. Gibbons (The Mofussilite Press) 1847

8		  
Lucy Cooper
(a serial in Sharpe's London Magazine 1846),
(a serial in the Corio Chronicle 1848)
(a serial in the llustrated Sydney News 1853)
as a book Canberra, Mulini Press, 1992 [Show details]

9		  
Jenny Dale
(a serial in The Mofussilite 1847)
as a book retitled Too Much Alike or the Three Calendars. London, Ward Lock, 1854
(a number of later editions including one Australian and one American)

10		  
Too Clever by Half or the Harroways
(a serial in The Mofussilite 1847-48)
as a book London, Ingram, 1853 (a number of later editions)

11		  
Livy Lake
(a serial in The Mofussilite 1849)
Attributed to John Lang

12		  
The Wetherbys, Father and Son
(a serial in Fraser's Magazine 1853)
(a serial in The Mofussilite 1853)
as a book entitled The Wetherbys or Chapters of Indian Experience London, Chapman & Hall, 1853.
An Indian edition: Meerut, Mofussilite Press, 1861

13		  
The Forger's Wife
(a serial in Fraser's Magazine 1853)
(a serial in The Mofussilite 1855)
as a book: London, Ward Lock, 1855 and London, W. Tegg 1859.
(numerous editions with various titles such as 'Assigned to His Wife' and 'The Convict's Wife')

14		  
My Furlough by Robert Weatherly
(a serial in The Mofussilite 1854 (not completed)
A sequel to The Wetherbys

15		  
Passages in the Life of a Divorcee
(a serial in The Mofussilite 1856)
as a book retitled The Ex-Wife London, Routledge, 1858

16		  
Plot and Passion
(a serial in The Mofussilite 1856 entitled Plot and Passion )
( a serial in The Welcome Guest 1859 entitled Plot and Passion)
This was the title of the play Plot and Passion by Tom Taylor and John Lang. The play was based on the book according to John Lang.
as a book; entitled The Secret Police or Plot and Passion. London, Ward Lock, 1859

17		  
Captain Macdonald or Haps and Mishaps at Capias Castle.
(a serial in The Mofussilite 1857)
as a book: London, Ward Lock, 1858

18		  
Hester Banfield
(a serial in Fraser's Magazine 1857)
(a serial in The Mofussilite 1857)
Not published as a book

19		  
Will He Marry Her? A novel.
(a serial in The Mofussilite 1858)
as a book: London, Routledge, 1858

20		  
My Friend's Wife or York You're Wanted
(a serial in The Mofussilite 1859)
as a book: London, Ward Lock, 1859

21		  
Botany Bay or True Tales of Early Australia,
(a series of stories in Household Words 1853+)
(a few published in The Welcome Guest 1859)
(published in The Mofussilite 1862)
as a book London, W. Tegg , 1859
(numerous editions under various titles)
latest edition: Canberra, Mulini Press, 1989 [Show details]

22		  
The Detective
(a serial in The Mofussilite 1861)
(not completed)

23		  
Ellen Wareham
(a serial in The Mofussilite 1862)
(Not published as a book)

A Travel Book

24		  
Wanderings in India and Other Sketches of Life in Hindostan
(a series of stories and sketches in Household Words 1853+)
(a series of sketches in The Mofussilite 1859)
as a book: London, Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1859
2nd ed. 1861

Poetry Books

25		  
Translation of the First Satire by Horace
Sydney, 1835

26		  
Geraldine
London, 1845

27		  
The Death of Ibram Hussein
Lahore, 1860s ? (actual date unknown)

28		  
The Rose Garden
Translations from Sadi of Shiraz
Canberra, Mulini Press, 1992 [Show details]

29		  
Songs of the Sea
Canberra, Mulini Press, 2000 [Show details]

There are many other serials, stories, sketches and poems published in The Mofussilite that may be by John Lang

 
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