W. H. Fitchett

Deeds That Won the Empire (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) W. H. Fitchett Illustrated edition

William Henry Fitchett (1841-1928) was an Australian journalist, minister, newspaper editor, educator and founding president of the Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne. He entered journalism during the eighteen-seventies, contributing a regular column to the Spectator, the Methodist church paper, signed XYZ. Some time later he became editor of the Southern Cross. But what really brought him before the general public was a series of articles which were published in The Argus under the title of Deeds that Won the Empire. They were collected and published in book form in Melbourne in 1896 and in London, in 1897. The book eventually ran into 35 editions and about 250,000 copies were sold. Similar volumes followed in steady succession including: Wellington's Men (1900), The Tale of the Great Mutiny (1901) and The New World of the South (1913). He also produced three volumes of fiction: The Commander of the Hirondelle (1904), Ithuriel's Spear (1906) and A Pawn in the Game (1908); and four books on religion: The Unrealized Logic of Religion (1905), Wesley and his Century (1906), The Beliefs of Unbelief (1908) and Where the Higher Criticism Fails (1922).