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1891 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1891. Books * Jennings Carmichael – ''Hospital Children: sketches of life and character in the Children's Hospital, Melbourne'' * Fergus Hume – ''Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage'' * Hume Nisbet — ''The Savage Queen: A Romance of the Natives of Van Dieman's Land'' Short stories * Mary Gaunt – "The Yanyilla Steeplechase" * Louisa Lawson – "A Bush Experience" * A. B. Paterson ** " The Cast-Iron Canvasser" ** "His Masterpiece" * Rosa Praed – "The Bunyip" * Price Warung ** "John Price's Bar of Steel" ** "The Liberation of the First Three" Poetry * Barcroft Boake ** " The Digger's Song" ** " On the Range" ** "Where the Dead Men Lie" * Victor J. Daley – "Lachesis" * George Essex Evans ** " An Australian Symphony" ** ''The Repentance of Magdalene Despar and Other Poems'' * Henry Lawson ** "Freedom on the Wallaby" ** " My Literary Friend" ** " The Sham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennings Carmichael
Jennings Carmichael (24 February 1867 – 9 February 1904) was an Australian poet and nurse. Life Grace Elizabeth Jennings Carmichael was born on 24 February 1867 at Ballarat, Victoria. The daughter of Archibald Carmichael, a miner from Perthshire, Scotland and Margaret Jennings, née Clark, from Cornwall. She was educated at Melbourne, while still a child went to live on a station at Orbost, and grew up close to the bush she came to love so much. She went to Melbourne to be trained as a nurse at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. Carmichael joined the Buonarottii Club before 1887, and was a member of the Austral Salon in the 1890s giving a public lecture on "The Spirit of the Bush" in September 1895 at the Masonic Hall in Melbourne with Alfred Deakin as chairman. In 1891, Carmichael published a small volume of prose sketches, ''Hospital Children''. Having qualified as a nurse she obtained a position on a station near Geelong, and subsequently married Francis Mullis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freedom On The Wallaby
"Freedom on the Wallaby", Henry Lawson's well known poem, was written as a comment on the 1891 Australian shearers' strike and published by William Lane in ''the Worker'' in Brisbane, 16 May 1891. The last two stanzas of the poem were read out by Frederick Brentnall MP on 15 July 1891 in the Queensland Legislative Council during a 'Vote of Thanks' to the armed police who broke up the Barcaldine strike camp. There were calls in the chamber for Lawson's arrest for sedition. Lawson wrote a bitter rejoinder to Brentnall, ''The Vote of Thanks Debate''. The "Rebel flag" referred to in the poem is the Eureka Flag that was first raised at the Eureka Stockade in 1854, above the Shearers' strike camp in 1891 and carried on the first Australian May Day May Day is a European festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on 1 May, around halfway between the spring equinox and summer solstice. Festivities may also be held the night before, known as Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1927. Books * Marie Bjelke-Petersen – ''The Moon Minstrel'' * Bernard Cronin ** ''Red Dawson'' ** ''White Gold'' * Zora Cross – ''Sons of the Seven Mile'' * James Devaney – ''The Currency Lass : A Tale of the Convict Days'' * Mabel Forrest – ''Hibiscus Heart'' * Mary Gaunt – ''Saul's Daughter'' * Ion Idriess – ''Madman's Island'' * Jack McLaren – ''The Chain'' * Helen Simpson – ''Cups, Wands and Swords'' * Steele Rudd – ''The Romance of Runnibede'' * E. V. Timms ** '' James! Don't Be a Fool'' ** '' Red Mask : A Story of the Early Victorian Goldfields'' Short stories * Jean Devanny – ''Old Savage and Other Stories'' * Vernon Knowles – ''Silver Nutmegs'' * Vance Palmer – "The Stump" * Katharine Susannah Prichard ** "The Cooboo" ** "Happiness" Children's and Young Adult fiction * W. M. Fleming – ''The Hunted Piccaninnies'' * Lilian Turn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesbia Harford
Lesbia Harford (9 April 1891 – 5 July 1927) was an Australian poet, novelist and political activist. Biography Lesbia Venner Keogh was the first child of Edmund Joseph Keogh and Beatrice Eleanor Moore, great-great-granddaughter of an Earl of Drogheda. She was born at Brighton, Victoria, on 9 April 1891. From 1893 to 1900, the family lived at "Wangrabel", 6 Horsburgh Grove, Armadale (the house still stands today). Her father left home for Western Australia when his real estate business failed about 1900. She and her three siblings were raised by their mother, who took genteel jobs, begged handouts from Keogh relations and took in boarders. Harford was educated at the Sacré Cœur School at "Clifton", Malvern, Victoria; Mary's Mount school at Ballarat, Victoria; and the University of Melbourne, where she graduated LL.B. in 1916. She was one of the university's few women students and one of its few opponents of Australia's part in the First World War. Her brother, Esmond Venner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1983. Events * The judges of the 1983 Miles Franklin Award announced there was no book entered of sufficient merit to receive the award. Major publications Novels * Brian Castro — ''Birds of Passage'' * Elizabeth Jolley ** ''Miss Peabody's Inheritance'' ** ''Mr Scobie's Riddle'' * Peter Kocan — ''The Cure'' * Kylie Tennant — ''Tantavallon'' * Morris West — '' The World Is Made of Glass'' Crime and mystery * Peter Corris — ''The Empty Beach'' * Gabrielle Lord — ''Tooth and Claw'' * Ian Moffitt — ''The Colour Man'' Science fiction and fantasy * A. Bertram Chandler — '' Kelly Country'' * Greg Egan – '' An Unusual Angle'' * Lee Harding — ''Waiting for the End of the World'' * George Turner — ''Yesterday's Men'' Short story collections * Beverley Farmer — ''Milk'' * Elizabeth Jolley — ''Woman in a Lampshade'' * David Malouf — ''Antipodes'' C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maie Casey, Baroness Casey
Ethel Marian Sumner "Maie" Casey, Baroness Casey, AC, FRSA (née Ryan; 13 March 1892 – 20 January 1983) was an Australian pioneer aviator, poet, librettist, biographer, memoirist and artist. Lord Casey was her husband. Robert Menzies famously referred to her as "Lady Macbeth". Early life Ethel Marian Sumner Ryan was born in 1892, younger child of Victorian-born parents, Sir Charles Snodgrass Ryan, a prominent Melbourne surgeon, and his wife, Alice (née Sumner) Lady Ryan. She is also the granddaughter of Charles Ryan and Marian Cotton ( John Cotton's daughter). She became known as "Maie" at an early age. Rupert Ryan was her brother. She was related by blood or marriage to leading Victorian families; one of her father's sisters married Lord Charles Montagu Douglas Scott, son of the 5th Duke of Buccleuch.Profile Australian Dictionary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Open Steeplechase
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Mountain Station
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Droving Days
IN, In or in may refer to: Places * India (country code IN) * Indiana, United States (postal code IN) * Ingolstadt, Germany (license plate code IN) * In, Russia, a town in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast Businesses and organizations * Independent Network, a UK-based political association * Indiana Northeastern Railroad (Association of American Railroads reporting mark) * Indian Navy, a part of the India military * Infantry, the branch of a military force that fights on foot * IN Groupe , the producer of French official documents * MAT Macedonian Airlines (IATA designator IN) * Nam Air (IATA designator IN) Science and technology * .in, the internet top-level domain of India * Inch (in), a unit of length * Indium, symbol In, a chemical element * Intelligent Network, a telecommunication network standard * Intra-nasal (insufflation), a method of administrating some medications and vaccines * Integrase, a retroviral enzyme Other uses * ''In'' (album), by the Outsiders, 1967 * In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flying Gang
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Evening In Dandaloo
An, AN, aN, or an may refer to: Businesses and organizations * Airlinair (IATA airline code AN) * Alleanza Nazionale, a former political party in Italy * AnimeNEXT, an annual anime convention located in New Jersey * Anime North, a Canadian anime convention * Ansett Australia, a major Australian airline group that is now defunct (IATA designator AN) * Apalachicola Northern Railroad (reporting mark AN) 1903–2002 ** AN Railway, a successor company, 2002– * Aryan Nations, a white supremacist religious organization * Australian National Railways Commission, an Australian rail operator from 1975 until 1987 * Antonov, a Ukrainian (formerly Soviet) aircraft manufacturing and services company, as a model prefix Entertainment and media * Antv, an Indonesian television network * ''Astronomische Nachrichten'', or ''Astronomical Notes'', an international astronomy journal * ''Avisa Nordland'', a Norwegian newspaper * ''Sweet Bean'' (あん), a 2015 Japanese film also known as ''An'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bernard O'Hara
John Bernard O'Hara (29 October 1862 - 31 March 1927) was an Australian poet and schoolmaster. Early life O'Hara was born at Bendigo, Victoria. His father, Patrick Knight O'Hara, a primary school teacher in the education department, Victoria, also published two volumes of verse. Patrick was also the editor and part proprietor of the ''Chiltern Leader''. His mother was Mary Ann O'Hara, and she passed away in 1895. His sisters Elizabeth O'Hara and Annie O'Hara were both doctors. They were famous for being two of the seven women who enrolled at the University of Melbourne Medical School in 1887, and together becoming the first women admitted to the faculty, and subsequently the first women to graduate as doctors in Australia. O'Hara was educated at Carlton College and Ormond College, University of Melbourne, where he had a distinguished career. After winning various exhibitions he graduated with first-class honours in mathematics and physics in 1885. Career Educator He wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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