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1902 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1902. Books * Louis Becke – ''Breachley, Black Sheep'' * Rolf Boldrewood – ''The Ghost Camp, or, The Avengers'' * Guy Boothby ** '' The Childerbridge Mystery'' ** ''The Curse of the Snake'' ** ''The Kidnapped President'' * Louise Mack – ''An Australian Girl in London'' * Rosa Praed – ''The Insane Root: A Romance of a Strange Country'' * Ethel Turner – ''The Raft in the Bush'' Short stories * Barbara Baynton – '' Bush Studies'' * Louis Becke — ''The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton and Other Stories'' * Henry Lawson ** "A Child in the Dark, and a Foreign Father" ** ''Children of the Bush'' ** "Send Round the Hat" * A. B. Paterson — "Sitting in Judgement : A Show Ring Sketch" Poetry * E. J. Brady – '' The Earthen Floor'' * Breaker Morant and Frank Renar – ''Bushman and Buccaneer: Harry Morant: His 'Ventures and Verses'' * Breaker Morant – " But ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Becke
George Lewis Becke (or Louis Becke; 18 June 1855 – 18 February 1913) was an Australian Pacific trader, short story writer and novelist. Early life Becke was born at Port Macquarie, New South Wales, son of Frederick Becke, Clerk of Petty Sessions and his wife Caroline Matilda, née Beilby. Both parents were born in England. Becke was the ninth of twelve children and had a tendency to wander; he has stated that before he was 10 he had twice run away from home. The family moved to Hunters Hill, Sydney in 1867 and Becke was educated at Fort Street High School. In 1869, Becke travelled to San Francisco with his brother William Vernon and was away for nineteen months. At 16 years of age, Becke was a stowaway on a ship bound for Samoa. In Apia he took a job as a book-keeper in the store of Mrs Mary Mcfarlane which he held until some time after December 1872. Under orders of Mrs Mcfarlane, Becke sailed a ketch, the ''E.A. Williams'' to Mili Atoll to deliver it to William "Bully" Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman At The Washtub
''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] |
1997 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1997. Events * David Foster won the Miles Franklin Award for '' The Glade Within the Grove'' Major publications Novels * Peter Carey (writer), ''Jack Maggs'' * Richard Flanagan, '' The Sound of One Hand Clapping'' * Rod Jones (author), ''Nightpictures'' * Madeleine St John, ''The Essence of the Thing'' Children's and young adult fiction * Damien Broderick and Rory Barnes, '' Zones'' * Kim Caraher, ''Up a Gum Tree'' * Isobelle Carmody ** ''Darkfall'' ** ''Greylands'' * Gary Crew and Michael O'Hara (writer), ''The Blue Feather'' * Sonya Hartnett, ''Princes'' * Catherine Jinks, ''Eye to Eye'' * Garth Nix, ''Shade's Children'' * Sarah Walker (Australian author), ''The Year of Freaking Out'' Poetry * Peter Boyle (poet), ''The Blue Cloud of Crying'' * Alison Croggon, ''The Blue Gate'' * Philip Hodgins, ''Selected Poems'' * Jill Jones (poet), ''The Book of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Mant
Gilbert Palmer Mant (20 July 1902 – 16 February 1997) was an Australian journalist and author. Life and career Gilbert Mant was born in Sydney. His mother was the granddaughter of the English-Australian painter and diarist Georgiana McCrae. After some years as a jackaroo he returned to Sydney and wrote as a freelance journalist in the early 1920s, often on literary topics. He worked for the Sydney ''Daily Telegraph'' from 1925 to 1930 and subsequently worked for Reuters in Australia, Britain and Canada. Mant married Marion Carroll in Melbourne in March 1933. The couple went straight to New Zealand, where Mant was covering the tour of the English cricket team. He had been covering the Australian leg of the tour, and intended to write a book about it, but Reuters refused him permission to do so when he told them he would be critical of the bodyline tactics of the English captain Douglas Jardine. He also accompanied the next English team on its tour of Australia in 1936–37 as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1981. Events * Peter Carey won the 1981 Miles Franklin Award for '' Bliss'' Major publications Literary novels * Peter Carey — '' Bliss'' * Blanche d'Alpuget — '' Turtle Beach'' * David Foster — ''Moonlite'' * Miles Franklin — ''On Dearborn Street'' * David Ireland — ''City of Women'' * Elizabeth Jolley — ''The Newspaper of Claremont Street'' * Colleen McCullough — ''An Indecent Obsession'' * Morris West — '' The Clowns of God'' Crime and mystery * Marshall Browne — ''Dragon Strike'' * Peter Corris — ''White Meat'' Science fiction and fantasy * John Brosnan — ''Skyship'' * David Lake — ''The Man Who Loved Morlocks'' * Keith Taylor — ''Bard'' * George Turner — ''Vaneglory'' Children's and young adult fiction * Jan Ormerod — ''Sunshine'' * Ruth Park — '' The Muddle-Headed Wombat is Very Bad'' * Eleanor Spence – ''The Seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Verdun Howell
Ada Verdun Howell (19 July 1902 – 1981) was an Australian writer and poet. Born in Beaufort, Victoria, on her father's sheep property, she was educated at Ruyton Girls' School. Her sister was the artist Valma Howell. She lived in New York in the latter part of her life where she wrote most of her most famous works. Her early writing, which she later eschewed as adolescent, showed considerable skill utilising Indigenous Australian phonetic forms of her childhood in Western Victoria. She is best known for her later writing, much praised for its great formal and feminine qualities, as an early sound poet. Her most influential works include the strangely disquieting ''Dookerimbud, Monmot and Neemini'' and the later ''Exit Strategies''. The last part of her life was apparently spent in much economic hardship and she died virtually unknown in her own country. New York life By the time she was in her late thirties Ada had abandoned Melbourne, where she was surrounded by what ... [...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] |
Christina Stead
Christina Stead (17 July 190231 March 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations. Christina Stead was a committed Marxist, although she was never a member of the Communist Party. She spent much of her life outside Australia, although she returned before her death. Biography Christina Stead's father was the marine biologist and pioneer conservationist David George Stead. She was born in the Sydney suburb of Rockdale. They lived in Rockdale at Lydham Hall. She later moved with her family to the suburb of Watsons Bay in 1911. She was the only child of her father's first marriage, and had five half-siblings from his second marriage. He also married a third time, to Thistle Yolette Harris, the Australian botanist, educator, author, and conservationist. According to some, this house was a hellhole for her because of her "domineering" father. She then left Australia in 1928, and worked in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1957. Books * James Aldridge – ''I Wish He Would Not Die'' * Martin Boyd – ''Outbreak of Love'' * Jon Cleary – ''The Green Helmet'' * Nino Culotta – ''They're a Weird Mob'' * Elizabeth Harrower – ''Down in the City'' * D'Arcy Niland – ''Call Me When the Cross Turns Over'' * Vance Palmer – ''Seedtime'' * Ruth Park – ''One-a-Pecker, Two-a-Pecker'' * Nevil Shute – '' On the Beach'' * Randolph Stow – ''The Bystander'' * Arthur Upfield – ''The Bushman Who Came Back'' * Judah Waten – ''Shares in Murder'' * Morris West – ''The Big Story'' * Patrick White – ''Voss'' Short stories * John Morrison – "A Man's World" * Vance Palmer – ''The Rainbow Bird and Other Stories'' * Steele Rudd – ''Sandy's Selection and Back At Our Selection'' * Dal Stivens – ''The Scholarly Mouse and Other Tales'' * Judah Waten – "The Knife" * Patrick White – "On the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Cottrell
Ida Dorothy Ottley Cottrell (16 July 1902 – 29 June 1957) was an Australian writer. Born in Picton, she contracted infantile paralysis as a child and spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair. Her first novel, ''The Singing Gold'', was published in 1928. She wrote a story ''Wilderness Orphan'' (1936) which was the basis for the feature film ''Orphan of the Wilderness'' (1936). She lived for a time in the US and also worked as an artist and cartoonist. Writings *''The Singing Gold'' (1927) *''Earth Battle'' (1927) (US: *A Little Chapel of Memory (1932 est) Booklet on Mission Inn, Riverside, CA *''Winks: His Book'' (1934) *''Wilderness Orphan'' (1936) - filmed as ''Orphan of the Wilderness (1936) *''The Silent Reefs'' (1953) - filmed as ''The Secret of the Purple Reef'' (1960) References External links * Ida Dorothy Ottley Cottrell at Australian Dictionary of Biography [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1984. Events * Tim Winton’s ''Shallows'' won the 1984 Miles Franklin Award Major publications Novels * Helen Garner — ''The Children's Bach'' * Nicholas Hasluck — '' The Bellarmine Jug'' * David Ireland — ''Archimedes and the Seagle'' * Peter Kocan — ''The Treatment; and, the Cure'' * Elizabeth Jolley — '' Milk and Honey'' * Amanda Lohrey — ''The Morality of Gentlemen'' * David Malouf — ''Harland's Half Acre'' * Jill Neville — ''Last Ferry to Manly'' * Randolph Stow — ''The Suburbs of Hell'' * Tim Winton — ''Shallows'' Crime and mystery * Marshall Browne — ''Dark Harbour'' * Evan Green — ''Alice to Nowhere'' * Tony Kenrick — ''Blast'' * William Marshall — ''The Far Away Man'' Science fiction and fantasy * A. Bertram Chandler — ''The Wild Ones'' * Keith Taylor — ''Bard II'' * Cherry Wilder ** ''A Princess of the Chameln'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Marshall (Australian Author)
Alan Marshall , (2 May 1902 – 21 January 1984) was an Australian writer, story teller, humanist and social documenter. He received the Australian Literature Society Short Story Award three times, the first in 1933. His best known book, ''I Can Jump Puddles'' (1955) is the first of a three-part autobiography. The other two volumes are ''This is the Grass'' (1962) and ''In Mine Own Heart'' (1963). Life and work Marshall was born in Noorat, Victoria. At six years old he contracted polio, which left him with a physical disability that grew worse as he grew older. From an early age, he resolved to be a writer, and in ''I Can Jump Puddles'' he demonstrated an almost total recall of his childhood in Noorat. The characters and places of his book are thinly disguised from real life: ''Mount Turalla'' is Mount Noorat, ''Lake Turalla'' is Lake Keilambete, the ''Curruthers'' are the ''Blacks'', Mrs. Conlon is Mary Conlon of Dixie, Terang, and his best friend, ''Joe'' from the book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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