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1921 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1921. Books * William Baylebridge — ''An Anzac Muster'' * Jean Curlewis — ''The Ship That Never Set Sail'' * Dulcie Deamer — ''Revelation'' * Arthur Gask — ''The Secret of the Sandhills'' * Fergus Hume — ''The Unexpected'' * Jack McLaren — ''The Oil Seekers: The Tale of New Guinea Beach'' * Ernest O'Ferrall — ''Bodger and the Boarders'' * Katharine Susannah Prichard — ''Black Opal'' Poetry * Zora Cross — "Elegy on an Australian Schoolboy" * C. J. Dennis — ''A Book for Kids'' * Mary Eliza Fullerton, Mary E. Fullerton ** "The Selector's Wife" ** "War Time" * Lesbia Harford ** "Day's End" ** "The Folk I Love" ** "The Invisible People" * Sumner Locke — ''In Memoriam: Sumner Locke'' * Dorothea Mackellar — "Vestal" * Furnley Maurice — "Plunder" * John Shaw Neilson ** "For a Little Girl's Birthday" ** "The Orange Tree" ** "To a School-Girl in Her Fourte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Baylebridge
William Baylebridge (12 December 1883 – 7 May 1942), born Charles William Blocksidge, was an Australian writer, poet, and political theorist. Baylebridge was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the son of George Henry Blocksidge. He studied at Brisbane Grammar School, then under a private tutor, the classicist David Owen. In 1908, he sailed to London with his friend (and future brother-in-law) Robert Graham Brown. He travelled extensively throughout the Continent, absorbing much of the intellectual milieu of that period. At that same time, he published several volumes of juvenilia, starting with ''Songs o’ the South'' in 1908, which was published by the secularist Charles Albert Watts. These early works were generally poorly received, and later, in order to dissociate himself from the embarrassment of having produced them, Blocksidge adopted the name ‘William Baylebridge’, both personally and professionally, in around 1925. While living in London, Baylebridge also publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Said Hanrahan
"Said Hanrahan" is a poem written by the Australian bush poet John O'Brien, the pen name of Roman Catholic priest Patrick Joseph Hartigan. The poem's earliest known publication was in July 1919 in ''The Catholic Press'', appearing in 1921 in the anthology ''Around the Boree Log and Other Verses''. The poem describes the recurrent natural cycle of droughts, floods and bushfires in rural Australia as seen by "Hanrahan", a pessimistic man of Irish descent. "'We'll all be rooned', said Hanrahan"—an adage extracted from the poem—has entered the Australian English lexicon. Poem Description The poem starts with the area in the grip of a drought, the worst since "the banks went bad"; a reference to the drought and banking crisis of the early 1890s. :''"If we don't get three inches, man,'' ::''Or four to break this drought,'' :''We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,'' ::''"Before the year is out."'' In time, the rains "drummed a homely tune" on "iron roof and window-pane" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2024. Events * Both the chief executive and deputy chairman quit over promotional material released for the 2024 Melbourne Writers Festival * Major Australian online bookseller Booktopia enters voluntary administration as its explores options for "sale and/or recapitalisation." Major publications Literary fiction * Amy Brown – ''My Brilliant Sister'' * Charmian Clift – ''The End of the Morning'' * Nikki Gemmell – ''Wing'' * Gail Jones – ''One Another'' * Meg Keneally – ''Free'' * Alex Miller – ''The Deal'' * Jock Serong – ''Cherrywood'' * Nardi Simpson – ''The Belburd'' * Tim Winton – ''Juice'' Crime and mystery * Garry Disher – ''Sanctuary'' * Candice Fox – ''Devil's Kitchen'' * Sulari Gentill – ''The Mystery Writer'' * Chris Hammer – ''The Valley'' * Dervla McTiernan – '' What Happened to Nina?'' * Louise Milligan – ''Pheasants Nest'' Science fictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Lawler
Raymond Evenor Lawler (born 23 May 1921) is an Australian actor, dramatist, and theatre producer and director. His most notable play was his tenth, '' Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'' (1953), which had its premiere in Melbourne in 1955. The play changed the direction of Australian drama. The story of ''The Doll'' is preceded by ''Kid Stakes'', set in 1937, when the characters of ''The Doll'' are young adults, and then ''Other Times'', which is set in 1945 and includes most of the same characters. Early life Lawler was born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray on 23 May 1921, second of eight children of a council worker. He left school at 13 to work in a factory and attended evening acting classes. He wrote his first play at 19, and his play ''Hal's Belles'' had good notices in early 1946. It was described as "...easy to stage and is a slick, finished work", then being offered by J. and N. Tait in London and New York. Career He first attracted attention as a writer in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Harris (poet)
Maxwell Henley Harris AO (13 April 1921 – 13 January 1995), generally known as Max Harris, was an Australian poet, critic, columnist, commentator, publisher, and bookseller. Early life Harris was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and raised in the city of Mount Gambier, where his father was based as a travelling salesman. His early poetry was published in the children's pages of '' The Sunday Mail''. He continued to write poetry through his secondary schooling after winning a scholarship to St Peter's College, Adelaide. By the time he began attending the University of Adelaide, he was already known as a poet and intellectual. In 1941, he edited two editions of the student newspaper '' On Dit''. Angry Penguins Harris's passion for poetry and modernism were driving forces behind the creation in 1940 of a literary journal called '' Angry Penguins''. His co-founders were D.B. "Sam" Kerr, Paul G. Pfeiffer and Geoffrey Dutton. The first issue attracted the interest of Melbourne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1993. Events * Alex Miller (writer) won the Miles Franklin Award for ''The Ancestor Game'' Major publications Novels * Bryce Courtenay — ''April Fool's Day'' * Rodney Hall — ''The Grisly Wife'' * Dorothy Hewett — ''The Toucher'' * Elizabeth Jolley — '' The Georges' Wife'' * David Malouf — '' Remembering Babylon'' * Roger McDonald — '' Water Man'' * Frank Moorhouse — ''Grand Days'' * Madeleine St John — ''The Women in Black'' * Morris West — ''The Lovers'' Children's and young adult fiction * Isobelle Carmody — '' The Gathering'' * Carmel Charles — ''Winin: Why the Emu Cannot Fly'' * Morris Gleitzman — ''Sticky Beak'' * John Marsden — ''Tomorrow, When the War Began'' * Dorothy Porter — ''The Witch Number'' Poetry * Robert Gray — ''Certain Things'' * Barry Hill — ''Ghosting William Buckley'' * Philip Hodgins — ''The End of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marshall Grover
Leonard Frank Meares (13 February 1921 – 4 February 1993) was an Australian writer of western fiction. He wrote over 700http://www.benbridges.co.uk/riders3.html LEONARD F MEARES – THE MAN THEY CALLED MARSHALL GROVER Westerns for the Australian paperback publishers Cleveland and Horwitz using the pseudonym "Marshall McCoy", "Marshall Grover" "Ward Brennan" and "Glenn Murrell". Among his most famous characters were "Larry & Stretch", Larry Valentine and Stretch Emerson. In the Nordic countries The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or ''Norden''; literal translation, lit. 'the North') are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It includes the sovereign states of Denmar ... they were known as "Bill & Ben". References {{DEFAULTSORT:Meares, Leonard Frank 1921 births 1993 deaths 20th-century Australian novelists Australian male novelists Western (genre) writers 20th-century Australian male writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2019. Major publications Literary fiction * Debra Adelaide, ''Zebra and other stories'' *Tony Birch, ''The White Girl'' * David Brooks, ''The Grass Library'' *Steven Carroll, ''The Year of the Beast'' *Melanie Cheng, ''Room for a Stranger'' *Peggy Frew, ''Islands'' *Peter Goldsworthy, ''Minotaur'' * John Hughes, ''No One'' *Anna Krien, ''Act of Grace'' * Vicki Laveau-Harvie, ''The Erratics'' *Melina Marchetta, ''The Place on Dalhousie'' *Andrew McGahan, ''The Rich Man's House'' (posthumous) *Gerald Murnane, ''A Season on Earth'' *Favel Parrett, ''There Was Still Love'' *Heather Rose, ''Bruny'' * Philip Slalom, ''The Returns'' *Carrie Tiffany, ''Exploded View'' *Lucy Treloar, ''Wolfe Island'' *Christos Tsiolkas, ''Damascus'' *Tara June Winch, ''The Yield'' *Charlotte Wood, ''The Weekend'' Short stories * Josephine Rowe, ''Here Until August'' Children's and young adult fiction * Mem Fox, ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Millett (poet)
John Antill Millett (3 February 1921 – 19 May 2019) was an Australian poet, reviewer and poetry editor. He was editor of ''Poetry Australia'' magazine from 1987 until its demise in 1992. Early years Millett was born in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra. His grandmother introduced him to adventure classics such as ''Robinson Crusoe'', ''Ivanhoe'', ''The Last of the Mohicans'' and the poems of Walter Scott. Millett served in England during World War II as a wireless air gunner with the all-Australian RAAF No 10 Squadron, from which experience he wrote the popular ''Tail Arse Charlie'', also adapted for ABC Radio. After the war he worked in the Repatriation Department. He then went to study law at Sydney University graduating with LLB. His book ''Blue Dynamite'' was dramatised by Bradley R. Strahan (editor of ''Visions International'', where he had been regularly published) with the assistance of the Source theater group in Washington, D.C. where it was performed at several venu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1995. Events * Helen Demidenko won the Miles Franklin Award for ''The Hand That Signed the Paper'' Major publications Novels * Carmel Bird – ''The White Garden'' * Marshall Browne – ''The Gilded Cage'' * Bryce Courtenay — ''The Potato Factory'' * Beverley Farmer — ''The House in the Light'' * Judith Fox (author), Judith Fox – ''Bracelet Honeymyrtle'' * Paul Horsfall – ''The Touchstone'' * Rod Jones (author), Rod Jones — ''Billy Sunday (novel), Billy Sunday'' * Thomas Keneally — ''A River Town'' * Christopher Koch — ''Highways to a War'' * Amanda Lohrey – ''Camille's Bread'' * Alex Miller (writer), Alex Miller — ''The Sitters'' * Mandy Sayer — ''The Cross'' * Kathleen Stewart — ''Spilt Milk'' Crime and mystery * Jon Cleary – ''Winter Chill'' * John Dale (writer), John Dale — ''Dark Angel (Dale novel), Dark Angel'' * Garry Disher – ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Braddon
Russell Reading Braddon (25 January 1921 – 20 March 1995) was an Australian writer of novels, biographies and TV scripts. His chronicle of his four years as a prisoner of war, '' The Naked Island'', sold more than a million copies. Braddon was born in Sydney, the son of a barrister. He served in the Malayan campaign during World War II. He was held as a prisoner of war by the Japanese in Pudu and Changi prisons and on the Thailand-Burma Railway between 1942 and 1945. During this time he met Ronald Searle, whose Changi sketches illustrate ''The Naked Island''. After the war, he went on to study law at University of Sydney. Nevertheless, he failed to obtain a law degree (he maintained that he had lost interest in the subject) and he abandoned undergraduate life in 1948. In 1949, Braddon moved to England after suffering a mental breakdown and followed by a suicide attempt. Doctors attributed this breakdown to his POW experiences, and urged him to take a year to recuperate. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Turner
Ethel Turner (24 January 1870 – 8 April 1958) was an English-born Australian novelist and children's literature writer. Life She was born Ethel Mary Burwell in Doncaster in England. Her father died when she was two, leaving her mother Sarah Jane Burwell with two daughters (Ethel and Lillian). A year later, Sarah Jane married Henry Turner, who was 20 years older and had six children of his own. Sarah Jane and Henry had a daughter, Rose. Henry Turner died suddenly, leaving Sarah Jane with nine children and little income. In 1879 Sarah Jane moved to Australia with Ethel, Lillian, and Rose; within the next two years she married Charles Cope and gave birth to his son Rex. Ethel Turner was educated at Paddington, New South Wales Public School and Sydney Girls High School—she was one of the school's original thirty-seven pupils. She started her writing career at eighteen, founding the ''Parthenon,'' a journal for young people, with her sister Lillian. As 'Dame Durden' she wrote c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
