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1908 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1908. Books * Edward Dyson ** ''The Missing Link'' ** ''Tommy Minogue'' * Mrs Aeneas Gunn – ''We of the Never Never'' * Rosa Praed ** ''By Their Fruits'' ** ''Stubble Before the Wind'' * Henry Handel Richardson – '' Maurice Guest'' * Steele Rudd – ''In Australia'' * Edward S. Sorenson – ''The Squatter's Ward'' * Ethel Turner – ''That Girl'' * Lilian Turner – ''Paradise and the Perrys'' Short stories * Louis Becke – ''The Pearl Divers of Roncador Reef and Other Stories'' * Joseph Furphy — "The Discovery of Christmas Reef" * Steele Rudd ** ''Dad in Politics and Other Stories'' ** ''For Life and Other Stories'' * Thos. E. Spencer — ''A Spring Cleaning and Other Stories'' Poetry * Christopher Brennan – "Towards the Source : 1894-97 : 30" * J. Le Gay Brereton – ''Sea and Sky'' * Victor J. Daley – " The Road of Roses" * C. J. Dennis — " The Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Dyson
Edward George Dyson (4 March 1865 – 22 August 1931), or 'Ted' Dyson, was an Australian journalist, poet, playwright and short story writer. He was the elder brother of illustrators Will Dyson (1880–1938) and Ambrose Dyson (1876–1913), with three sisters also of artistic and literary praise. Dyson wrote under several – some say many – nom-de-plumes, including Silas Snell. In his day, the period of Australia's federation, the poet and writer was "ranked very closely to Australia's greatest short-story writer, Henry Lawson". With Lawson known as the "swagman poet", Ogilvie the "horseman poet", Dyson was the "mining poet". Although known as a freelance writer, he was also considered part of '' The Bulletin'' writer group. Early life He was born at Morrison's Diggings near Ballarat in March 1865. His father, George Dyson, arrived in Australia in 1852 and after working on various diggings became a mining engineer. His mother, Jane, née Mayall, came from "a life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Austra-laise
"The Austra-laise" is a poem by Australian writer C.J. Dennis that was first published in ''The Bulletin'' magazine on 12 November 1908 as an entry in a National Song Competition which drew 74 entries. The entry was entitled "A Real Australian Austra--laise", and won its author a special prize.''The Making of a Sentimental Bloke'' by Alec H. Chisholm, 1946, pp 33-34 The poem is also known by the titles "The Austrabloodyaise" and " A Real Australian Austra-laise". It can be sung to the tune of " Onward Christian Soldiers". Originally published as a set of four verses in 1908, with blanks instead of dashes and under the byline "A. J. Dennis",''The Bulletin'', 12 November 1908, Red Page the poem was expanded later to its now-familiar 7 stanzas. It was later included in the author's poetry collections ''Backblock Ballads and Other Verses'' (1913) and ''Backblock Ballads and Later Verses'' (1918). It was subsequently reprinted in various newspaper and magazines, as well as in the po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Crawford (playwright)
James Crawford (6 February 1908 – 11 November 1973) was an Australian playwright and commentator who wrote political plays, feature articles for newspapers and was very involved in many social and political groups. He was best known for his plays ''Rocket Range'' and ''Billets and Badges''. Crawford wrote twenty-four plays and twenty-one skits which are known about. Some of the plays were turned into radio dramas. Crawford also wrote numerous newspaper articles in relation to political and social problems at the time which led him to be well respected in the community. Crawford was born in Manchester, England, in 1908 and arrived in Australia in 1924. As a playwright, Crawford was influenced by William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. He was also greatly influenced by the Communist Party of Australia and the ideals it stood for. In an article written by Crawford about Elizabethan Theatre he wrote that "In the Elizabethan Theatre, Marlowe spoke with the voice of the radic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1989. Events * Peter Carey won the Miles Franklin Award for ''Oscar and Lucinda'' Major publications Novels * Jessica Anderson — '' Taking Shelter'' * Mena Calthorpe — ''The Plain of Ala'' * Bryce Courtenay — '' The Power of One'' * Tom Flood — ''Oceana Fine'' * Peter Goldsworthy — '' Maestro'' * Elizabeth Jolley — '' My Father's Moon'' * Tom Keneally — '' Towards Asmara'' * Amy Witting — ''I for Isobel'' Short story anthologies * Liam Davison — ''The Shipwreck Party'' * Brian Matthews — ''Quickening and Other Stories'' Crime and mystery * Kerry Greenwood — ''Cocaine Blues'', the first in the Phryne Fisher series. * Jennifer Rowe — ''Murder by the Book'' Science fiction and fantasy * Judith Clarke — ''The Boy on the Lake : Stories'' * Rosaleen Love — ''The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories'' Children's and young adult fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connie Christie
Connie Christie (31 January 1908 – 3 June 1989) was an English-born Australian artist who wrote and illustrated books for children. By 1950 sales of her books were reported to have reached one million or two million copies. Career Christie worked as a commercial artist, firstly for Val Morgan The Val Morgan Group, formerly known as Val Morgan Cinema Advertisers, is an Australian advertising company first established in 1894. The company primarily specialises in cinema advertising, having worked with major Australian cinema chains inclu ..., the cinema advertising production company, and then for G. J. Coles Pty Ltd, then a chain store company. Working for Coles for 18 years, she designed its company logo and became known as the "Coles Orchid". In 1939 she wrote and illustrated her first book, ''The Adventures of Pinkishell,'' claimed to be Australia's first children's book about mermaids. She wrote and illustrated ''The Connie Christie Annual'' from 1940 to 1950. Her outp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumner Locke
Helena Sumner Locke (4 July 1881 – 18 October 1917) was an Australian novelist, dramatist/playwright, poet and short story writer. Her sister was the socialist Lilian Locke. Early life Born in 1881, she was the sixth daughter of Anglican clergyman Rev. William Locke and Annie (née Seddon), both born in England. She spent the early years of her childhood in Queensland before moving with her family to Melbourne in 1888. Career Locke began publishing short stories in such publications as ''The Bulletin'' and the ''Native Companion'' before her first play, ''The Vicissitudes of Vivienne'', was produced in Melbourne in 1908. This was followed the next year by a Sydney production of ''A Martyr to Principle'', a production she wrote in collaboration with Stanley McKay. She was later described by a Sydney newspaper as being "the first woman dramatist to have a play produced in Australia by a commercial theatrical management". A stage version was also produced in 1917 by Bert Bailey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Franklin
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 187919 September 1954), known as Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel '' My Brilliant Career'', published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, ''All That Swagger'', was not published until 1936. She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers' organisations. She has had a long-lasting impact on Australian literary life through her endowment of a major annual prize for literature about "Australian Life in any of its phases", the Miles Franklin Award. Her impact was further recognised in 2013 with the creation of the Stella Prize, awarded annually for the best work of literature by an Australian woman. Life and career Franklin was born at Talbingo, New South Wales, and grew up in the Brindabe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Shaw Neilson
John Shaw Neilson was an Australian poetry, Australian poet. Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the VicRoads, Country Roads Board in Melbourne. Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia's finest Lyric poetry, lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it. Early life Neilson was born in Penola, South Australia, Penola, South Australia of purely Scottish people, Scottish ancestry. His grandparents were John Neilson and Jessie MacFarlane of Cupar, Neil Mackinnon of Isle of Skye, Skye, and Margaret Stuart of Greenock. His mother, Margaret MacKinnon, was born at Dartmoor, Victoria, his father, John Neilson, at Stranraer, Scotland, in 1844. John Neilson senior was brought to South Australia at nine years of age, had practically no education, and was a shepherd, shearer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Country
"My Country" is a poem about Australia, written by Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968) at the age of 19 while homesick in the United Kingdom. After travelling through Europe extensively with her father during her teenage years, she started writing the poem in London in 1904 and re-wrote it several times before her return to Sydney. The poem was first published in '' The Spectator'' in London on 5 September 1908 under the title "Core of My Heart". It was reprinted in many Australian newspapers, such as The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, who described the 'little poem' as striking the right note of "...the clear, ringing, triumphant note of love and trust in ustralia" The poem quickly became well known and established Mackellar as a poet. Mackellar's family owned substantial properties in the Gunnedah district of New South Wales and a property (Torryburn) in the Paterson district of the Hunter Region. The poem is believed to have been directly inspired by w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothea Mackellar
Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar, (1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968) was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem '' My Country'' is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "''I love a sunburnt country/A land of sweeping plains,/Of ragged mountain ranges,/Of droughts and flooding rains."'' Life The third child and only daughter of physician and parliamentarian Sir Charles Mackellar and his wife Marion Mackellar (née Buckland), the daughter of Thomas Buckland, she was born in the family home '' Dunara'' at Point Piper, Sydney, Australia in 1885. Her later home was ''Cintra'' at Darling Point (built in 1882 by John Mackintosh for his son James), and in 1925, she commissioned a summer cottage (in reality a substantial home with colonnaded verandah overlooking Pittwater), "Tarrangaua" at Lovett Bay, an isolated location on Pittwater reachable only by boat (this home is currently the residence of the novelist and author Susan Duncan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Hundred And Three
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by 2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following 0. The fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally accepted until the mid-20th century. Additionally, 1 is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meditations On A Pawn Ticket
''Meditations'' () is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from AD 161 to 180, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the ''Meditations'' in Koine Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. It is possible that large portions of the work were written at Sirmium, where he spent much time planning military campaigns from 170 to 180. Some of it was written while he was positioned at Aquincum on campaign in Pannonia, because internal notes tell us that the first book was written when he was campaigning against the Quadi on the river Granova (modern-day Hron) and the second book was written at Carnuntum. It is unlikely that Marcus Aurelius ever intended the writings to be published. The work has no official title, so "Meditations" is one of several titles commonly assigned to the collection. These writings take the form of quotations varying in length from one senten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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