Carlofantom is the Wikipedia username of the freelance journalist and non-fiction author Roger Bourke.
The username itself is derived from a passage in the Brief Lives of the 17th-century English writer John Aubrey: "Captain Carlo Fantom, a Croatian, spake 14 languages; was a Captain under the Earle of Essex. He was very quarrelsome and a great Ravisher. He left the Parliament Party and went to the King Ch. the First at Oxford, where he was hanged for Ravishing. Sd. he, I care not for your Cause: I come to fight for your half-crowne and your handsome women … Sir Robert Pye was his Colonel, who shot at him for not returning a horse that he took away before the Regiment." "Carlo Fantom" ("Charles Ghost") was almost certainly not the real name of this East European mercenary but a nom de guerre: thus it was an early example of a username.
I published my first book, Prisoners of the Japanese: Literary imagination and the prisoner-of-war experience, with the University of Queensland Press in 2006. I hold an MA in English from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from the University of Western Australia. I live in Australia. I became a registered English Wikipedia user in May 2013 and a registered French Wikipédia utilisateur in September 2013.
Articles begun
WikiProject Albums
- Matador: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (2012)
- Real Emotional Girl (2001)
- Mellow Miles (1985)
- Broken Hearts & Madmen (2011)
- The Soul of a Man (2003)
WikiProjects Albums/Classical music
WikiProjects Albums/Classical music/Germany
- Canticles of Ecstasy (1993)
WikiProjects Australia/Festivals
WikiProject Biography
- James Paris du Plessis (c. 1666–c. 1735)
- William Harris (historian) (1720–1770)
- William Butler (physician) (1535–1617)
WikiProjects Biography/France
- Marie-Catherine Homassel Hecquet (1686–1764)
- Claude-Rémy Buirette de Verrières (1749–1793)
WikiProjects Biography/Musicians/Jazz
- Cindy Bradley (1977–)
WikiProjects Biography/Scotland
- Elizabeth Burnett (1766–1790)
WikiProjects Biography/Women's history
- Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck (1602–1645)
WikiProjects Books/Military history
- Quartered Safe Out Here (George MacDonald Fraser)
- Naples '44 (Norman Lewis)
- To War with Whitaker (Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly)
- Alamein to Zem Zem (Keith Douglas)
WikiProject Songs
- The Gypsy's Wife (Leonard Cohen)
Carlofantom is the Wikipedia username of the freelance journalist and non-fiction author Roger Bourke.
The username itself is derived from a passage in the Brief Lives of the 17th-century English writer John Aubrey: "Captain Carlo Fantom, a Croatian, spake 14 languages; was a Captain under the Earle of Essex. He was very quarrelsome and a great Ravisher. He left the Parliament Party and went to the King Ch. the First at Oxford, where he was hanged for Ravishing. Sd. he, I care not for your Cause: I come to fight for your half-crowne and your handsome women … Sir Robert Pye was his Colonel, who shot at him for not returning a horse that he took away before the Regiment." "Carlo Fantom" ("Charles Ghost") was almost certainly not the real name of this East European mercenary but a nom de guerre: thus it was an early example of a username.
I published my first book, Prisoners of the Japanese: Literary imagination and the prisoner-of-war experience, with the University of Queensland Press in 2006. I hold an MA in English from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from the University of Western Australia. I live in Australia. I became a registered English Wikipedia user in May 2013 and a registered French Wikipédia utilisateur in September 2013.
Articles begun
WikiProject Albums
- Matador: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (2012)
- Real Emotional Girl (2001)
- Mellow Miles (1985)
- Broken Hearts & Madmen (2011)
- The Soul of a Man (2003)
WikiProjects Albums/Classical music
WikiProjects Albums/Classical music/Germany
- Canticles of Ecstasy (1993)
WikiProjects Australia/Festivals
WikiProject Biography
- James Paris du Plessis (c. 1666–c. 1735)
- William Harris (historian) (1720–1770)
- William Butler (physician) (1535–1617)
WikiProjects Biography/France
- Marie-Catherine Homassel Hecquet (1686–1764)
- Claude-Rémy Buirette de Verrières (1749–1793)
WikiProjects Biography/Musicians/Jazz
- Cindy Bradley (1977–)
WikiProjects Biography/Scotland
- Elizabeth Burnett (1766–1790)
WikiProjects Biography/Women's history
- Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck (1602–1645)
WikiProjects Books/Military history
- Quartered Safe Out Here (George MacDonald Fraser)
- Naples '44 (Norman Lewis)
- To War with Whitaker (Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly)
- Alamein to Zem Zem (Keith Douglas)
WikiProject Songs
- The Gypsy's Wife (Leonard Cohen)