She and her husband were best known for making films about bushrangers such as Captain Thunderbolt, Captain Moonlite, Ben Hall and Frank Gardiner, and convict-era melodramas.
His novels frequently focussed on criminal outsiders such as 'The Push' (a Sydney larrikin element analogous to the 'bodgies' of the 1950s, 'rockers' of the 1960s and bikies of today), bushrangers such as Thunderbolt, Ben Hall.
The Bushrangers were based in Melbourne at the Melbourne Ballpark as well as playing a few games in Ballarat until they relocated to Canberra for the 1993-94 championship, the season after the Monarchs had been reformed.
Boldrewood, who presumably had some insight into the matter, denied the claim and stated that the character was a composite of several bushrangers of the era, including Henry Readford and Thomas Smith, alias Captain Midnight.
One day he rescues Sir Edward's fiancee, Dorothy (Agnes Vernon), from real bushrangers and falls in love with her.