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1900 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1900. Events * April - Henry Lawson departs Australia for London in order to further his literary career. The venture proved ultimately unsuccessful. Books * Louis Becke ** '' Edward Barry: South Sea Pearler'' ** ''Tom Wallis: A Tale of the South Seas'' * Guy Boothby ** ''A Cabinet Secret'' ** ''"Long Live the King!"'' ** ''A Maker of Nations'' ** ''My Indian Queen'' ** ''A Prince of Swindlers'' (aka ''The Viceroy's Protegé'') ** ''The Woman of Death'' * Ada Cambridge – '' Path and Goal'' * Simpson Newland – '' Blood Tracks of the Bush: An Australian Romance'' * A. B. Paterson – '' An Outback Marriage'' * Ethel Turner – ''Three Little Maids'' Short stories * Edward Dyson – " The Funerals of Malachi Mooney" * Henry Lawson ** "The Iron-Bark Chip" ** "Joe Wilson's Courtship" ** ''On the Track'' ** ''Over the Sliprails'' * Steele Rudd – "On Our Selection" (la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Lawson
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer". A vocal nationalist and republican, Lawson regularly contributed to ''The Bulletin'', and many of his works helped popularise the Australian vernacular in fiction. He wrote prolifically into the 1890s, after which his output declined, in part due to struggles with alcoholism and mental illness. At times destitute, he spent periods in Darlinghurst Gaol and psychiatric institutions. After he died in 1922 following a cerebral haemorrhage, Lawson became the first Australian writer to be granted a state funeral. He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist Louisa Lawson. Family and early life Henry Lawson was born 17 June 1867 in a town on the Grenfell goldfields of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Over The Sliprails
''Over the Sliprails'' (1900) is a collection of short stories by Australian poet and author Henry Lawson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1900, and features some of the author's lesser known stories. The collection contains sixteen stories which are mostly reprinted from a variety of newspaper sources, with several published here for the first time. The story "The Hero of Redclay" was originally intended to be a novel but was shortened by the author and published here as a short story. Contents * "The Shanty-Keeper's Wife" * "A Gentleman Sharper and Steelman Sharper" * "An Incident at Stiffner's" * "The Hero of Redclay" * "The Darling River" * "A Case for the Oracle" * "A Daughter of Maoriland : A Sketch of Poor-Class Maoris" * "New Year's Night" * "Black Joe" * "They Wait on the Wharf in Black : Told by Mitchell's Mate" * "Seeing the Last of You" * "Two Boys at Grinder Bros" * "The Selector's Daughter" * "Mitchell on the `Sex' and Other `Problems'" * "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
There's Another Blessed Horse Fell Down
English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts. This article describes a generalized, present-day Standard English – a form of speech and writing used in public discourse, including broadcasting, education, entertainment, government, and news, over a range of registers, from formal to informal. Divergences from the grammar described here occur in some historical, social, cultural, and regional varieties of English, although these are more minor than differences in pronunciation and vocabulary. Modern English has largely abandoned the inflectional case system of Indo-European in favor of analytic constructions. The personal pronouns retain morphological case more strongly than any other word class (a remnant of the more extensive Germanic case system of Old English). For other pronouns, and all nouns, adjectives, and articles, grammatical function is indicated only by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia (O'Dowd)
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It has a total area of , making it the sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates including deserts in the interior and tropical rainforests along the coast. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the last glacial period. By the time of British settlement, Aboriginal Australians spoke 250 distinct languages and had one of the oldest living cultures in the world. Australia's written history commenced with Dutch exploration of most of the coastline in the 17th century. British colonisation began in 1788 with the establishment of the penal colony of New S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
