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About Malcolm Henry Ellis
Malcolm Henry Ellis, CMG (21 August 1890 – 18 January 1969) was an Australian journalist, historian and critic. He usually wrote as M. H. Ellis. His wife, Jean Ellis, founded the Penguin Club of Australia in 1937. His younger brother Ulrich Ellis was also a journalist and historian.
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“He always looked sartorially like a colonel of cavalry who had just left Tattersall's Sale Ring with a field-marshal after having bought a steeplechaser.”
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Malcolm Henry Ellis on Ned Kelly
“The resurgence of the Ned Kelly legend ... stresses the enigma of why one of the most decent, law-abiding peoples in the world should make a national hero of one of the most cold-blooded, egotistical, and utterly self-centred criminals who ever decorated the end of a rope in an Australian jail. His frankness in turpitude, his utter vengefulness, his cruelty, his cold-blooded lack of regret at the wiping out of the lives of decent men can only repel even an unfastidious mind. Yet his spirit has been extolled as the spirit of Australia, his animal lawlessness has been held up as a renewal of the spirit of Eureka.”
About Malcolm Henry Ellis
Malcolm Henry Ellis, CMG (21 August 1890 – 18 January 1969) was an Australian journalist, historian and critic. He usually wrote as M. H. Ellis. His wife, Jean Ellis, founded the Penguin Club of Australia in 1937. His younger brother Ulrich Ellis was also a journalist and historian.