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1876 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1876. Books * Rolf Boldrewood — ''A Colonial Reformer'' * Ada Cambridge — ''My Guardian : A Story of the Fen Country'' * Maud Jean Franc — ''Two Sides to Every Question'' * James Brunton Stephens — ''A Hundred Pounds'' Poetry * Robert Dudley Adams — " Trucanini's Dirge" * Ernest Favenc — " Dead in the Queensland Bush" * Henry Kendall ** " Bill the Bullock Driver" ** " Kingsborough" * James Brunton Stephens — "Mute Discourse : A Poem" Births * 6 February — Alice Guerin Crist, poet, author and journalist (died 1941) * 20 March — Winifred Lewellin James, novelist (died 1941) * 13 April — Ambrose Dyson, poet and artist (died 1913) * 6 June — Amy Mack, writer, journalist and editor (died 1939) * 2 September — Will Lawson, poet and novelist (died 1957) * 7 September — C. J. Dennis, poet (died 1938) * 4 October — Hugh McCrae, poet (died 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Boldrewood
Thomas Alexander Browne (born Brown, 6 August 1826 – 11 March 1915) was an Australian author who published many of his works under the pseudonym Rolf Boldrewood. He is best known for his 1882 bushranging novel '' Robbery Under Arms''. Biography Browne was born in London, the eldest child of Captain Sylvester John Brown, a shipmaster formerly of the East India Company, and his wife Elizabeth Angell, ''née'' Alexander. His mother was his "earliest admirer and most indulgent critic . . . to whom is chiefly due whatever meed of praise my readers may hereafter vouchsafe" (Dedication Old Melbourne Memories). Thomas added the 'e' to his surname in the 1860s. After his father's barque ''Proteus'' had delivered a cargo of convicts in Hobart, the family settled in Sydney in 1831. Sylvester Brown took up whaling and built a stone mansion, ''Enmore,'' which gave its name to the suburb of Sydney.Introduction to ''Robbery Under Arms'' by Dr. A. T. Brissenden, The Discovery Press, 1968 T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1939. Events ''The Queenslander'' ceases publication after the last edition on February 22 1939. The magazine was first published on February 3 1866 by Thomas Blacket Stephens in Brisbane and published serialised novels, poems and short stories by many Australian writers. Books * Erle Cox – ''Fool's Harvest'' * Miles Franklin and Dymphna Cusack – '' Pioneers on Parade'' * Arthur Gask ** ''The Fall of a Dictator'' ** ''The Vengeance of Larose'' * Michael Innes – ''Stop Press'' * Will Lawson – ''In Ben Boyd's Day'' * Jack Lindsay – ''Lost Birthright'' * Myra Morris – ''Dark Tumult'' * Henry Handel Richardson – '' The Young Cosima'' * Alice Grant Rosman – ''William's Room'' * Nevil Shute – ''What Happened to the Corbetts'' (aka ''Ordeal'') * Kylie Tennant – ''Foveaux'' * E. V. Timms – '' Dark Interlude'' * Arthur Upfield – '' The Mystery of Swordfis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1876 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * February 24 – Première of first stage production of the poetic drama ''Peer Gynt'' by Henrik Ibsen (published 1867) with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, in Christiania, Norway. Works published in English United Kingdom * Robert Bridges, ''The Growth of Love'' (revised and expanded in 1889) * Robert Browning, ''Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper; with Other Poems'' * Lewis Carroll, ''The Hunting of the Snark'' * Edward Dowden, ''Poems'' * Toru Dutt, ''A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields: Verse Translations and Poems'', Bhowanipur, Calcutta: B. M. Bose (expanded edition, Bhowanipur: Saptahik Sambad Press 1878; London: Kegan Paul 1880); Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United KingdomNaik, M. K.''Perspectives on Indian poetry in English'' p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ), retrieved via Google Books, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1876 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1876. Events *February 24 – The stage première of the verse-play ''Peer Gynt'' by Henrik Ibsen (published 1867) with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, takes place in Christiania, Norway. *February/March – ''The Harvard Lampoon'' humor magazine is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts. *March 14 – Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma established in Rome. *March ** American librarian Melvil Dewey first publishes the Dewey Decimal Classification system. **George Bernard Shaw moves permanently from Dublin to England, after which he begins his writing career as the ghostwriter of a musical column in London satirical weekly ''The Hornet''. *April – Émile Zola's ''L'Assommoir'' begins serialization in ''Le Bien public''. Its low-life themes cause it to be suspended after six episodes; serialization resumes in July in ''La République des lettres''. *July – William Heffer takes over his first bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1876 In Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1876 in Australia. Incumbents * Monarch - Victoria Governors Governors of the Australian colonies: *Governor of New South Wales – Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead * Governor of Queensland – Sir William Cairns *Governor of South Australia – Sir Anthony Musgrave * Governor of Tasmania – Frederick Weld * Governor of Victoria – Sir George Bowen * Governor of Western Australia – Sir William Robinson GCMG. Premiers Premiers of the Australian colonies: * Premier of New South Wales – John Robertson * Premier of Queensland – Arthur Macalister until 5 June, then George Thorn * Premier of South Australia – James Boucaut until 6 June, then John Colton * Premier of Tasmania – Alfred Kennerley until 20 July, then Thomas Reibey * Premier of Victoria – James McCulloch Events *20 February – Submarine cable between New South Wales and New Zealand completed. *21 March – J.V. Mulligan finds gold deposi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Kingsley
Henry Kingsley (2 January 1830 – 24 May 1876) was an English novelist, brother of the better-known Charles Kingsley. He was an early exponent of muscular Christianity in an 1859 work, ''The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn''. Life Kingsley was born at Barnack Rectory, Northamptonshire, the son of the Rev. Charles Kingsley the elder and Mary, ''née'' Lucas. Charles Kingsley came of a long line of clergymen and soldiers. There were several writers in the family besides Henry and Charles, including Mary Kingsley, an explorer and writer, Charlotte Kingsley Chanter, a botanical writer and novelist, and George Kingsley, a traveller and writer. Henry Kingsley's boyhood was spent at Clovelly and Chelsea, before attending King's College School, King's College London, and Worcester College, Oxford, which he left without graduating. An opportune legacy from a relation enabled him to leave Oxford free of debt and emigrate to Australia. He arrived in Melbourne in the ''Gauntlet'' in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1930. Books * Marie Bjelke-Petersen – ''Monsoon Music'' * Jean Devanny ** ''Bushman Burke'' ** ''Devil Made Saint'' * Miles Franklin – '' Ten Creeks Run : A Tale of the Horse and Cattle Stations of the Murrumbidgee'' * Arthur Gask – ''The Shadow of Larose'' * Mary Gaunt – ''Joan of the Pilchard'' * Xavier Herbert – ''Black Velvet'' * Norman Lindsay – ''Redheap'' * Lennie Lower – '' Here's Luck'' * Vance Palmer ** ''Men are Human'' ** ''The Passage'' * Katharine Susannah Prichard – ''Haxby's Circus : The Lightest, Brightest Little Show on Earth'' * Alice Grant Rosman – ''The Young and Secret'' * E. V. Timms – '' The Cripple in Black'' * Arthur W. Upfield – ''The Beach of Atonement'' Young Adult * Alice Grant Rosman – ''Jock the Scot'' * Lilian Turner – ''There Came a Call'' Poetry * Minnie Agnes Filson – ''Rhymes & Whimsies'' * Mary Gil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Strong
Sir Archibald Thomas Strong (30 December 1876 – 2 September 1930) was an Australian scholar and poet. V. A. Edgeloe, 'Strong, Sir Archibald Thomas (1876–1930)', '' Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 12, MUP, 1990, pp. 124–125. Retrieved 30 March 2010 Early life Strong was born at South Yarra, Melbourne, the son of Herbert Strong, professor of classics at the University of Melbourne, and his wife Helen Campbell, ''née'' Edmiston. Strong and his family moved to Liverpool, England, in 1883 when Prof. Herbert Strong became professor of Latin at University College, Liverpool. Archibald was educated at Sedbergh School and University College, Liverpool, where he graduated B.A. in 1896 with first-class honours in classics. Strong then went to Magdalen College, Oxford; however, a long illness prevented any possibility of a first in "Greats". Strong graduated in '' Literae Humaniores'' (1900) and spent several months at the University of Marburg, Germany, before retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1935. Books * Winifred Birkett – '' Earth's Quality'' * Martin Boyd – ''The Lemon Farm'' * Jean Devanny ** ''The Ghost Wife'' ** ''The Virtuous Courtesan'' * Arthur Gask – ''The Hangman's Knot'' * Jack Lindsay – ''Last Days with Cleopatra'' * Jack McLaren – ''The Devil of the Depths'' * T. Inglis Moore – ''The Half-Way Sun : A Tale of the Philippine Islands'' * Ambrose Pratt – ''Lift Up your Eyes'' * Alice Grant Rosman – ''The Sleeping Child'' * Kylie Tennant – ''Tiburon'' * E. V. Timms – '' Far Caravan'' Children's * Mary Grant Bruce – ''Wings Above the Billabong'' * Jack Lindsay – ''Runaway'' * P. L. Travers – ''Mary Poppins Comes Back'' * Dorothy Wall – ''Brownie: The Story of a Naughty Little Rabbit'' Poetry * C. J. Dennis ** ''The Singing Garden'' ** "Unconsidered Trifles" * Mary Gilmore – "The Wanderer" * Patrick White – ''The Plough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bede Dalley
John Bede Dalley (5 October 1876 – 6 September 1935) was an Australian journalist and novelist, editor of '' Melbourne Punch''. Dalley was born in Rose Bay, Sydney, the second son of William Bede Dalley (1831–1888) and Eleanor Jane, ''née'' Long. He was born at Sydney and was educated at St Aloysius' College. Following his father's death in 1888, John and his brothers were sent to England by their Uncle and guardian William Alexander Long, where they attended St Augustine's Abbey school at Ramsgate, and Beaumont College. On 1 November 1895, Dalley matriculated from University College, Oxford. Dalley was called to the bar in London in 1901 and practised at Sydney until 1907, when he joined the staff of ''The Bulletin'' after becoming deaf from a fall off a horse. After being rejected several times, he joined the Australian Field Artillery in March 1915 as Second Lieutenant Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces, com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1957. Books * Thea Astley – ''Girl with a Monkey'' * Nancy Cato – ''All the Rivers Run'' * Catherine Gaskin – ''Blake's Reach'' * Frank Hardy – ''The Four-Legged Lottery'' * Dorothy Hewett - ''Bobbin Up'' * Elizabeth Harrower – ''The Long Prospect'' * Christopher Koch – ''The Boys in the Island'' * Eric Lambert – ''The Dark Backward'' * Hal Porter – ''A Handful of Pennies'' * Olaf Ruhen – ''Naked Under Capricorn'' * Nevil Shute – '' The Rainbow and the Rose'' * Dal Stivens – ''The Wide Arch'' * Randolph Stow – ''To the Islands'' * E. V. Timms – '' Robina'' * Morris West – ''The Backlash'' (aka ''The Second Victory'') Short stories * A. Bertram Chandler – "Planet of Ill Repute" * Peter Cowan – ''The Unploughed Land : Stories'' * Frank Hardy – "The Crookest Raffle Ever Run in Australia" * Roland Robertson – ''Black-Feller, White-Fell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh McCrae
Hugh Raymond McCrae OBE (4 October 1876 – 17 February 1958) was an Australian writer, noted for his poetry. Life and career McCrae was born in Melbourne, the son of the Australian author George Gordon McCrae and grandson of the painter and diarist Georgiana McCrae. Originally he trained as an architect, but later took up drawing, writing and acting, settling eventually in Sydney and later in the New South Wales town of Camden. His works are notable for a sense of lightness and delicacy, and he produced, in addition to a volume of memoirs, a considerable body of verse, and a light operetta, an edition of his grandmother's journal, and a volume of prose pieces. McCrae starred as Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon in W. J. Lincoln's 1916 feature film '' The Life's Romance of Adam Lindsay Gordon'', shot in and around Melbourne. In the 1920s, Australian-born composer John Gough set McCrae's poem "Song of the Rain" (from the collection ''Colombine'') to music. McCrae wrote a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
