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1926 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1926. Books * Mary Grant Bruce – ''The Tower Rooms'' * Carlton Dawe – ''The Forbidden Shrine'' * Jean Devanny ** ''The Butcher Shop'' ** ''Lenore Divine'' * Mabel Forrest – ''Gaming Gods'' * Mary Gaunt – ''The Forbidden Town'' * Jack McLaren ** ''The Hidden Lagoon'' ** ''Isle of Escape : A Story of the South Seas'' * Katharine Susannah Prichard ** ''The Wild Oats of Han'' ** ''Working Bullocks'' Short stories * Xavier Herbert – "The Maniac and the Full Moon" * Vance Palmer – "The Birthday" * Katharine Susannah Prichard – "The Curse" * Steele Rudd – ''The Rudd Family'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Mary Grant Bruce – ''Robin'' * W. M. Fleming – ''Bunyip Told Me'' * Ethel Turner – ''Funny'' * Lilian Turner – ''The Happy Heriots'' Poetry * Jack Lindsay – ''The Passionate Neatherd : a lyric sequence'' * Dorothea Mackellar – ''Fancy Dress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Grant Bruce
Mary Grant Bruce (24 May 1878 – 2 July 1958), also known as Minnie Bruce, was an Australian children's author and journalist. While all her thirty-seven books enjoyed popular success in Australia and overseas, particularly in the United Kingdom, she was most famous for the ''Billabong'' series, focussing on the adventures of the Linton family on Billabong Station in Victoria and in England and Ireland during World War I. Her writing was considered influential in forming concepts of Australian national identity, especially in relation to visions of the Bush. It was characterised by fierce patriotism, vivid descriptions of the beauties and dangers of the Australian landscape, and humorous, colloquial dialogue celebrating the art of yarning. Her books were also notable and influential through championing of what Bruce held up as the quintessentially Australian Bush values of independence, hard physical labour (for women and children as well as men), mateship, the ANZAC spirit a ... [...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] |
1873 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1873. Books * James Bonwick ** ''Mike Howe, the Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land'' ** ''The Tasmanian Lily'' * Edward Maitland – ''By and By: An Historical Romance of the Future'' * Vincent Pyke – ''The Story of Wild Will Enderby'' * Anthony Trollope ** ''Harry Heathcote of Gangoil : A Tale of Australian Bush Life'' ** '' Lady Anna'' Short stories * Marcus Clarke – ''Holiday Peak and Other Tales'' Poetry * Marcus Clarke – " The Song of Tigilau" * John Dunmore Lang – ''Poems : Sacred and Secular : Written Chiefly at Sea, within the Last Half-Century'' * John Boyle O'Reilly – ''Songs from the Southern Seas and Other Poems'' * J. Brunton Stephens ** " My Chinee Cook" ** " My Other Chinee Cook" Births A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1873 of Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Tate (poet)
Henry Tate (27 October 1873 - 6 June 1926) was an Australian poet and musician. Henry Tate was born in Prahran, Melbourne, the son of Henry Tate, an accountant. He was educated at a local state school and as a choir boy at a St Kilda Anglican church, and learned music under Marshall Hall. He worked as a clerk before becoming a music teacher. Tate had fewer pupils than he might, however, for he would not encourage a child with no talent, and did not believe in coaching children for music examinations. Literary work Tate contributed verse to '' The Bulletin'' and other journals, and wrote a weekly chess column for a Melbourne newspaper. He coined the term "fairy chess" in 1914. In 1910 he published '' The Rune of the Bunyip and other Verse'', and in 1917 a pamphlet, ''Australian Musical Resources, Some Suggestions'', in which he demonstrated the possibility of the developing an Australian school of musical composers with a distinctive national character. He extended this argument i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ... [...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] |
2023 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2023. Major publications Literary fiction * Tony Birch – ''Women & Children'' * Trent Dalton – ''Lola in the Mirror'' * Gregory Day – ''The Bell of the World'' * Kate Grenville – ''Restless Dolly Maunder'' * John Kinsella – ''Cellnight: A verse novel'' * Melissa Lucashenko – ''Edenglassie'' * Kate Morton – ''Homecoming'' * Mirandi Riwoe – ''Sunbirds'' * Tracy Sorensen – ''The Vitals'' * Christos Tsiolkas – ''The In-Between'' * Pip Williams – '' The Bookbinder of Jericho'' * Charlotte Wood – ''Stone Yard Devotional'' * Alexis Wright – '' Praiseworthy'' Short story collections * Graeme Simsion – ''Creative Differences: And Other Stories'' * Laura Jean McKay – ''Gunflower'' Non-Fiction * Chanel Contos – ''Consent Laid Bare'' * Robyn Davidson – ''Unfinished Woman'' * Marele Day – ''Reckless'' * Martin Flanagan – ''The Empty Honour Board'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portia Robinson
Portia Robinson ( Ferguson; 26 August 1926 – 3 February 2023) was an Australian historian. She was an associate professor at Macquarie University Macquarie University ( ) is a public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of S ..., retiring in 1998. Robinson was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1993 " r service to education, particularly in the field of Australian colonial history". Works * * Reviews of ''The Women of Botany Bay'': * * References 1926 births 2023 deaths 20th-century Australian historians Academic staff of Macquarie University Australian women historians Members of the Order of Australia 20th-century Australian women {{Australia-historian-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2000. Events * ''Drylands'' by Thea Astley and '' Benang'' by Kim Scott were joint winners of the Miles Franklin Award Major publications Novels * Peter Carey, ''True History of the Kelly Gang'' * Rodney Hall, '' The Day We Had Hitler Home'' * Alex Miller, '' Conditions of Faith'' * Frank Moorhouse, ''Dark Palace'' Short story anthologies * Carmel Bird (editor), ''The Penguin Century of Australian Stories'' Poetry * Dorothy Hewett and John Kinsela, ''Wheatlands'' Children's and young adult fiction * Jaclyn Moriarty, ''Feeling Sorry for Celia'' * Sonya Hartnett, '' Thursday's Child'' * James Moloney, '' Touch Me'' * John Marsden, ''Winter'' * Shaun Tan, ''The Lost Thing'' Plays * Hannie Rayson, ''Life After George'' * David Williamson **'' Face to Face'' **'' The Great Man'' Non-fiction * Brian Matthews, ''A Fine and Private Place'' * Wendy McCarthy, ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Moffitt
Ian Moffitt (31 July 1926 – 1 November 2000) was an Australian journalist and novelist best known for his best-selling novel ''The Retreat Of Radiance''. He headed News Limited bureau in New York in the early 1960s and was an outstanding feature writer for ''The Australian'' newspaper in the late 1960s and 1970s before becoming a full-time novelist in 1981. History Born in Sydney on 31 July 1926, Moffitt grew up in Taree on the north coast of New South Wales. He worked for ''The Sun'' as a copy boy and became a cadet early in 1945. In 1949, during the Chinese Civil War, he joined the staff of the South China Morning Post and it was his experience in Hong Kong and China that inspired ''The Retreat Of Radiance''.''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'' edited by Wilde, Hooton and Andrews, 2nd edition, p485. Retrieved 12 August 2023 First published in 1982 by William Collins, ''The Retreat Of Radiance'' was four months on the bestseller list, six weeks at number on ... [...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] |
Ann Moyal
Ann Veronica Helen Moyal AM FRSN FAHA (née Hurley, formerly Cousins and Mozley; 23 February 1926 – 21 July 2019) was an Australian historian known for her work in the history of science. She held academic positions at the Australian National University (ANU), New South Wales Institute of Technology, and Griffith University, and later worked as an independent scholar. Early life Moyal was born on 23 February 1926 in Northbridge, Sydney, New South Wales. Her father was a bank teller. She grew up in Sydney, but was sent to Canberra High School for her final year of secondary schooling. She graduated Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours from the University of Sydney, and was subsequently awarded a scholarship to the University of London. However, she abandoned her postgraduate studies after a year to become a research assistant. Career Moyal worked as a research assistant to Lord Beaverbrook from 1954 to 1958, while he was working on ''Men and Power 1917–1918''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
