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1901 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1901. Books * Guy Boothby ** ''Farewell, Nikola'' ** ''A Millionaire's Love Story'' ** ''My Strangest Case'' ** ''The Mystery of the Clasped Hands'' * Ada Cambridge – '' The Devastators'' * Miles Franklin – ''My Brilliant Career'' * E. W. Hornung – ''The Shadow of the Rope'' * Ambrose Pratt – ''Franks, Duellist'' * Ethel Turner – ''Wonder Child'' Short stories * Louis Becke ** ''By Rock and Pool, On an Austral Shore, and Other Stories'' ** ''Yorke the Adventurer and Other Stories'' * Rolf Boldrewood ** ''In Bad Company and Other Stories'' ** "Fallen Among Thieves" * Nat Gould – "Chased by Fire" * Henry Lawson ** "At Dead Dingo" ** ''The Country I Come From'' ** ''Joe Wilson and His Mates'' ** "The Loaded Dog" * Louise Mack – "The Bond" Poetry * George Essex Evans – "The Women of the West" * Henry Lawson ** " The Men Who Made Australia" ** " The Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Boothby
Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 – 26 February 1905) was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. He is best known for such works as the Dr Nikola series, about an occultist criminal mastermind who is a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu, and ''Pharos, the Egyptian'', a tale of Gothic Egypt, mummies' curses and supernatural revenge. Rudyard Kipling was his friend and mentor, and his books were remembered with affection by George Orwell. Biography Boothby was born in Adelaide to a prominent family in the recently established British colony of South Australia. His father was Thomas Wilde Boothby, who for a time was a member of the South Australian Legislative Assembly, three of his uncles were senior colonial administrators, and his grandfather was Benjamin Boothby (1803–1868), controversial judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia from 1853 to 1867. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Men Who Made Australia
''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] |
Alphabetical Order
Alphabetical order is a system whereby character strings are placed in order based on the position of the characters in the conventional ordering of an alphabet. It is one of the methods of collation. In mathematics, a lexicographical order is the generalization of the alphabetical order to other data types, such as sequences of numbers or other ordered mathematical objects. When applied to strings or sequences that may contain digits, numbers or more elaborate types of elements, in addition to alphabetical characters, the alphabetical order is generally called a lexicographical order. To determine which of two strings of characters comes first when arranging in alphabetical order, their first letters are compared. If they differ, then the string whose first letter comes earlier in the alphabet comes before the other string. If the first letters are the same, then the second letters are compared, and so on. If a position is reached where one string has no more letters to c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Dark
Eleanor Dark AO (26 August 190111 September 1985) was an Australian writer whose novels included ''Prelude to Christopher'' (1934) and ''Return to Coolami'' (1936), both winners of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for literature, and her best known work '' The Timeless Land'' (1941). Life and career Eleanor Dark was born in Sydney, the second of three children of the poet, writer and parliamentarian Dowell O'Reilly and his wife, Eleanor McCulloch O'Reilly. She studied at the Redlands College for Girls at Cremorne, and was known as Pixie O'Reilly. On finishing school and unable to enter university, having failed mathematics, she learnt typing and took a secretarial job. In February 1922 she married Dr Eric Payten Dark (1889–1987), a widower and general practitioner who wrote books, articles and pamphlets on politics and medicine. She became step-mother to his two-year-old son. Eric Dark was an active member of the Labor left in New South Wales, was involved in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavier Herbert
Xavier Herbert (born Alfred Jackson; 15 May 190110 November 1984) was an Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel ''Poor Fellow My Country'' (1975). He was considered one of the elder statesmen of Australian literature. He is also known for short story collections and his autobiography ''Disturbing Element''. Life and career Herbert was born Alfred Jackson in Geraldton, Western Australia, in 1901, the illegitimate son of Amy Victoria Scammell and Benjamin Francis Herbert, a Welsh-born engine driver. He was registered at birth as Alfred Jackson, son of John Jackson, auctioneer, with whom his mother had already had two children. Before writing he worked many jobs in Western Australia and Victoria; his first job was in a pharmacy at the age of fourteen. He studied pharmacy at Perth Technical College and was registered as a pharmacist on 21 May 1923 as Alfred Xavier Herbert. He moved to Melbourne, and in 1935 enrolled at the University of Melbourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Slessor
Kenneth Adolphe Slessor (27 March 190130 June 1971) was an Australian poet, journalist and official war correspondent in World War II. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into Australian poetry. The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is named after him. Early life Slessor was born Kenneth Adolphe Schloesser in Orange, New South Wales. As a boy, he lived in England for a time with his parents and in Australia visited the mines of rural New South Wales with his father, a Jewish mining engineer whose father and grandfather had been distinguished musicians in Germany. His family moved to Sydney in 1903. Slessor attended Mowbray House School (1910–1914) and the Sydney Church of England Grammar School (1915–1918), where he began to write poetry. His first published poem, "Goin'", about a wounded digger in Europe, remembering Sydney and its icons, appeared in ''The Bulletin'' in 1917. Slessor passed the 1918 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Pownall
Eve Pownall MBE (1901–1982) was an Australian writer for children and historian who was born in Sydney, New South Wales. Pownall was the eldest of three children and lived in Kiama, Windsor, Muswellbrook and Sydney before attending North Sydney Girls' High School. She undertook a secretarial course before finding work at Fox Films and then at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Ltd until her marriage to Leslie Pownall in December 1929. The couple were to have two children. She began to review children's literature for ''Australasian Book News and Literary Journal'', and later began writing children's fiction and non-fiction of her own. She was appointed an MBE in 1978 and was the first recipient of the Lady Cutler award for distinguished service to children's literature in New South Wales. Pownall was a founding member of the Children's Book Council of Australia (1945) and was associated with the Council for the rest of her life. The Children's Book Council presents the annual Eve Pownall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred George Stephens
Alfred George Stephens (28 August 1865 – 15 April 1933), commonly referred to as A. G. Stephens, was an Australian writer and literary critic, notably for ''The Bulletin''. He was appointed to that position by its owner, J. F. Archibald in 1894. Early life and journalism Stephens was born at Toowoomba, Queensland. His father, Samuel George Stephens, came from Swansea, Wales, and his mother, originally Euphemia Russell, was born in Greenock, Scotland. The first enrolled boy, he was educated at Toowoomba Grammar School until he was 15, and had a good grounding in English, French, and the classics, but his education was later much extended by wide reading. His father was part-owner of the ''Darling Downs Gazette'', and in its composing room the boy developed his first interest in printing. On leaving school he was employed in the printing department of William Henry Groom, proprietor of the ''Toowoomba Chronicle'', and later in the business of A. W. Beard, printer and bookbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roderic Quinn
Roderic Joseph Quinn (26 November 1867 – 15 August 1949) was an Australian poet. Early life Quinn was born in Sydney the seventh child of Irish parents: Edward Quinn, letter-carrier, and his wife Catherine. He was educated at Catholic schools, where he met and formed lifelong friendships with Christopher Brennan and E. J. Brady. After finishing school, he studied law irregularly and taught for six months at Milbrulong Provisional Public School, near Wagga Wagga. Then came a short stint as a public servant back in Sydney, where he became editor of the ''North Sydney News''. Career Quinn began publishing his poetry in ''The Bulletin'' during the 1890s and continued to do so for the rest of his life, writing over 1200 individual pieces in all. He published a novel, ''Mostyn Stayne'', in 1897, but it was not successful. He wrote a number of short stories during his career, but he does not appear to have returned to the novel format. Poetry remained his first calling and ''The Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wargeilah Handicap
''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] |
Dreams In Flower
''Dreams in Flower'' (1901) was the only collection of poems by Australian poet and author Louise Mack. It was released in hardback A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or ... by Bulletin publishers in 1901. The original collection includes 26 poems by the author that are reprinted from various sources. Only 550 copies of the book were printed, of which 500 were offered for sale. Contents * "Of This City" * "On the Wharf" * " The Lagoon at Manly" * "Illusion" * "Away Beyond the Belt of Blue" * "The Song of the Dead" * "Vows" * " Of a Wild White Bird" * "Little Golden Hair" * "On Wairee Hill" * "An Easter Song" * "Leaf Music" * "I Take My Life Into My Hands" * "I dreamed of Italy" * "In the Attic" * "Oh, to begin again!" * "Song of Black Nights" * "Horse o' Gold" * "Bury It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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