William Aubrey Burnage, writer and newspaper owner, was born c. 1847.Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate Saturday 3 December 1881, page 4. Accessed 31 January 2015. He was the son of Thomas Aubrey Burnage (c. 1824 – 4 January 1902) and Kezia Agatha Burnage (c. 1826 – 13 September 1901).Austlit. Accessed 31 January 2015.
In November 1875, Burnage became a partner in Hugh McDicken's printing and publishing business, the Newcastle Chronicle, located in Newcastle, New South Wales.Newcastle Chronicle, 27 November 1875, p.4 Accessed 31 January 2015. In January of the following year McDicken sold his share in the partnership to Burnage, leaving Burnage as sole proprietor.Newcastle Chronicle, 6 January 1876, p2 Accessed 31 January 2015. Burnage's novel, Bertha Shelley, was serialised in the newspaper, which ceased publication in 1876.Newcastle Chronicle
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.http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemdetailpaged.aspx?itemid=441651 State Library of NSW Manuscripts Collection Retrieved on 31 January 2015
Burnage was 34 years old when he died at Newcastle, New South Wales, on 2 December 1881 after a long and painful illness.Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate Saturday 3 December 1881 Accessed 31 January 2015.
Bibliography 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)State Library of New South Wales Accessed 31 January 2015. 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.Newcastle Chronicle Saturday 3 April 1875 Accessed 31 January 2015.)
External links ebooks by William Aubrey Burnage at Project Gutenberg Australia
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