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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 (Turner novel), Three Little Maids'' Short stories * Edward Dyson – "The Funerals of Malachi Mooney" * Henry Lawson ** "wikisource:The Iron-Bark Chip, The Iron-Bark Chip" ** "wikisource:Joe Wilson's Courtship, Joe Wilson's Co ... [...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 Australian nationalism, nationalist and republicanism in Australia, republican, Lawson regularly contributed to ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin'', and many of his works helped popularise the Australian English, 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 Law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Track (collection)
''On the Track'' (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 one of the author's better known stories in "Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster", as well as a number of lesser known works. The collection contains nineteen stories which are mostly reprinted from a variety of newspaper and magazine sources, with several published here for the first time. Contents * "The Songs They Used To Sing" * "A Vision of Sandy Blight" * " Andy Page's Rival" * " The Iron-Bark Chip" * "Middleton's Peter" * " The Mystery of Dave Regan" * "Mitchell on Matrimony" * "Mitchell on Women" * "No Place for a Woman" * "Mitchell's Jobs" * " Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster" * "Bush Cats" * "Meeting Old Mates" * "Two Larrikins" * "Mr Smellingscheck" * "A Rough Shed" * "Payable Gold" * " An Oversight of Steelman's" * " How Steelman Told His Story" Critical reception A reviewer in ''The Freeman's Journa ... [...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 Southeast 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 So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
