In Lonnie's Shadow (23 page)

Author’s Note

The author drew on the following sources of inspiration for In Lonnie’s Shadow:

Heritage Victoria

Museum Victoria

State Library of Victoria

The Argus newspaper (c.1891)

The Melbourne streetscape and community (past and present)

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, a novel by Fergus Hume (1886)

Traditional hymn ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’, lyrics by Sabine Baring-Gould (1865)

Traditional nursery rhyme ‘Around the Rick’