William Aubrey Burnage

William Aubrey Burnage, writer and newspaper owner, was born c. 1847.^[1] He was the son of Thomas Aubrey Burnage (c. 1824 – 4 January 1902) and Kezia Agatha Burnage (c. 1826 – 13 September 1901).^[2]

In November 1875, Burnage became a partner in Hugh McDicken's printing and publishing business, the Newcastle Chronicle, located in Newcastle, New South Wales.^[3] In January of the following year McDicken sold his share in the partnership to Burnage, leaving Burnage as sole proprietor.^[4] Burnage's novel, Bertha Shelley, was serialised in the newspaper, which ceased publication in 1876.^[5]

Burnage's 3-act play, Constance, was performed at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle, as a farewell benefit for Mr J.C. Joyce in July 1874.^[6]

Burnage was 34 years old when he died at Newcastle, New South Wales, on 2 December 1881 after a long and painful illness.^[1][7]

• Bertha Shelley, the Lily of the Hunter Valley, 1875
• A Novel Without a Name, 1877
• A Peep behind the Scenes (Showing How the New Cabinet Was to Have Been Formed; How It Was Formed; and Who Licked It into Form): A Political Satire, Sydney : C. E. Fuller, 1877 [poetry].
• Constance, a three-act play, ca. 1874 (Manuscript)^[8]
• A Swim for a Wife, 1875. (This novel has probably not survived. It was serialised in the Newcastle Chronicle and only a few instalments of the work appear to exist.^[9])

• ebooks by William Aubrey Burnage at Project Gutenberg Australia