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Cyril Hopkins

Cyril Hopkins’ Marcus Clarke edited by Laurie Hergenhan, Ken Stewart and Michael Wilding

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October 2009, no. 315
Susan K. Martin reviews 'Cyril Hopkins’ Marcus Clarke' edited by Laurie Hergenhan, Ken Stewart and Michael Wilding

The slightly odd title of this volume – not Marcus Clarke, but Cyril Hopkins’ Marcus Clarke – is reminiscent of a spate of movies in the 1990s, including Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Those weren’t the authentic products, but this book does present Hopkins’s Clarke, in that much of the volume is made up of his childhood memories of the author of For the Term of His Natural Life (1874) and long extracts from Clarke’s letters to Hopkins.

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