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1927 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1927. Books * Marie Bjelke-Petersen – ''The Moon Minstrel'' * Bernard Cronin ** ''Red Dawson'' ** ''White Gold'' * Zora Cross – ''Sons of the Seven Mile'' * James Devaney – ''The Currency Lass : A Tale of the Convict Days'' * Mabel Forrest – ''Hibiscus Heart'' * Mary Gaunt – ''Saul's Daughter'' * Ion Idriess – ''Madman's Island'' * Jack McLaren – ''The Chain'' * Helen Simpson – ''Cups, Wands and Swords'' * Steele Rudd – ''The Romance of Runnibede'' * E. V. Timms ** '' James! Don't Be a Fool'' ** '' Red Mask : A Story of the Early Victorian Goldfields'' Short stories * Jean Devanny – ''Old Savage and Other Stories'' * Vernon Knowles – ''Silver Nutmegs'' * Vance Palmer – "The Stump" * Katharine Susannah Prichard ** "The Cooboo" ** "Happiness" Children's and Young Adult fiction * W. M. Fleming – ''The Hunted Piccaninnies'' * Lilian Turn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Bjelke-Petersen
Marie Caroline Bjelke Petersen (23 December 1874 – 11 October 1969) was a Danish-Australian novelist and physical culture teacher. She wrote nine popular romance novels between 1917 and 1937. Her novels were set in Australia, mostly in rural Tasmania, and represent an alternative vision of Australia to that of earlier writers. Marie Bjelke Petersen's biographer, Alison Alexander, wrote: "With her Danish background Marie was not steeped in the laconic lore of the bush propagated by the ''Bulletin'' and its school of admirers, and she set out to glorify her adopted land, to depict Australia as a cultured civilised place, with charming people (setting aside the villains), a quite different portrayal from that usually found in the literature of her day." It has been claimed that her works were more popular in the United States and England than Australia.Wilde et al (1994) p. 95. Her biographer, Alexander (1994), questions this claim. Certainly Marie Bjelke Petersen was very wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fleming (Australian Politician)
William Montgomerie Fleming (19 May 1874 – 24 July 1961) was an Australian politician, who served in the Australian House of Representatives and the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Early life Born in Avon Plains, Victoria to Scottish migrant and station manager John Fleming and his wife Helen (née Hastie), Fleming moved with his family to a farm near Walgett, New South Wales in 1882. Educated on the farm, private schools (including Cooerwull Academy) and at the University of Sydney, Fleming worked on the family farm while also employed as a journalist for various local newspapers. A Presbyterian, Fleming married Caroline Benn in 1900; together they had one daughter and two sons. Parliamentary career Elected as an independent member for the electoral district of Robertson as a 27-year-old in 1901, Fleming transferred to the seat of Upper Hunter upon the abolition of Robertson in 1904. Fleming moved to Federal parliament in 1913 as the member for the Division of R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1987. Events * Glenda Adams won the 1987 Miles Franklin Award for ''Dancing on Coral'' Major publications Novels * Glenda Adams — ''Dancing on Coral'' * Murray Bail — '' Holden's Performance'' * Sumner Locke Elliott — ''Waiting for Childhood'' * Barbara Hanrahan — ''Kewpie Doll'' * Nicholas Jose — ''Paper Nautilus'' * Thomas Keneally — ''The Playmaker'' * Olga Masters — ''Amy's Children'' * Colleen McCullough — '' The Ladies of Missalonghi'' * Boyd Oxlade — ''Death in Brunswick'' * Eric Willmot — ''Pemulwuy, the Rainbow Warrior'' Short stories * Jessica Anderson — ''Stories from the Warm Zone'' * Thea Astley — ''It's Raining in Mango'' * Julie Lewis — ''The Walls of Jericho: Stories'' * Patrick White — ''Three Uneasy Pieces'' Children's and young adult fiction * John Marsden — ''So Much to Tell You'' Science fiction and fantasy * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Perry
Dr. Grace Perry (26 January 1927 — 3 July 1987) was an Australian poet, playwright, and founder and editor of the South Head Press and ''Poetry Australia'' magazine. Her press and magazine provided launching pads for many noted Australian poets such as Bruce Beaver, Les Murray, John Tranter and John Millett. She was born in Melbourne and educated in Queensland and Sydney. She graduated in medicine from the University of Sydney in 1951. She split her time between pediatrics and literary affairs as poet, editor, publisher. She was a member of the Australian Society of Authors. She organised poetry workshops and writing schools in Sydney. At Berrima, where she lived in her last years, she ran a 2000-acre property and maintained an interest in stud breeding. Editorship Perry controlled her magazine, ''Poetry Australia'', and was committed to publishing diverse styles and subjects. Perry aimed for international significance while maintaining a strong Australian presence. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence, Prince Of Mecca
''Lawrence, Prince of Mecca'' is a 1927 biographical book about T. E. Lawrence by E. V. Timms writing under the name "David Roseler".Anthony Barker'Timms, Edward Vivian (1895–1960)' ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published in hardcopy 1990, accessed online 19 October 2014 References External links''Lawrence, Prince of Mecca''at AustLit AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration betwee ... Australian biographies 1927 non-fiction books T. E. Lawrence {{bio-book-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Wright
Judith Arundell Wright (31 May 191525 June 2000) was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award. Biography Judith Wright was born in Armidale, New South Wales. The eldest child of Phillip Wright and his first wife, Ethel, she spent most of her formative years in Brisbane and Sydney. Wright was of Cornish ancestry. After the early death of her mother, she lived with her aunt and then boarded at New England Girls' School after her father's remarriage in 1929. After graduating, Wright studied Philosophy, English, Psychology and History at the University of Sydney. At the beginning of World War II, she returned to her father's station ( ranch) to help during the shortage of labour caused by the war. Wright's first book of poetry, ''The Moving Image'', was published in 1946 while she was working at the University of Queensland as a research officer. Then, she had also worked with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David McKee Wright
David McKee Wright (6 August 1869 – 5 February 1928) was an Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia. Early life Wright was born at Ballynaskeagh, County Down, Ireland, the second son of Rev. William Wright, D.D. (1837-1899), a Congregational missionary working in Damascus, scholar and author, and his wife Ann (d.1877), ''née'' McKee, daughter of the Rev. David McKee, an educationist and author. Michael Sharkey,Wright, David McKee (1869 - 1928), '' Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 12, MUP, 1990, pp 584-585. Retrieved 25 March 2010 David Wright was born while his parents were home on furlough and was left with a grandmother (Rebecca McKee) until he was seven years old. Wright was educated at the local Glascar School and then from 1876 in England at Mr Pope's School and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering, London. New Zealand Wright migrated to New Zealand in 1887 and spent several years as a rabbiter on stations in Central Ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Stewart (poet)
Douglas Stewart (6 May 191314 February 1985) was a major twentieth century Australian poet, as well as short story writer, essayist and literary editor. He published 13 collections of poetry, 5 verse plays, including the well-known ''Fire on the Snow'', many short stories and critical essays, and biographies of Norman Lindsay and Kenneth Slessor. He also edited several poetry anthologies. His greatest contribution to Australian literature came from his 20 years as literary editor of ''The Bulletin'', his 10 years as a publishing editor with Angus & Robertson, and his lifetime support of Australian writers.Wilde et al. (1994) p.721 Geoffrey Serle, literary critic, has described Stewart as "the greatest all-rounder of modern Australian literature". Life Douglas Stewart was born in Eltham, Taranaki Province, New Zealand, to an Australian-born lawyer father. He attended primary school in his home town, and a high school thirty miles away, before studying at the University of Well ... [...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] |
Frank Wilmot
Frank Leslie Thomson Wilmot (6 April 1881 – 22 February 1942), who published his work under the pseudonym Furnley Maurice, was a noted Australian poet, best known for ''To God: From the Warring Nations'' (1917). Early life Wilmot was a son of Henry William Wilmot, an ironmonger and pioneer of the socialist movement in Victoria, and his wife, Elizabeth Mary Hind. He was born at Collingwood, a suburb of Melbourne, and was educated at the North Fitzroy State School. In 1895 he obtained employment at Cole's Book Arcade, Melbourne. He married Ida Meeking in 1910, and they had two sons. Wilmot gradually improved his position at the book arcade and, when the business was wound up by the executors of the Cole estate in 1929, held the position of manager. Career Wilmot began contributing verse to '' The Tocsin'', a Melbourne Labour paper, before he was 20 and also produced his own monthly magazine called ''Microbe''. His first separate publication, ''Some Verses'' by Frank Wilmot, app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percival Serle
Percival Serle (18 July 1871 – 16 December 1951) was an Australian biographer and bibliographer. Early life Serle was born in Elsternwick, Victoria to English parents who had migrated as children and for many years worked in a life assurance office before in November 1910 becoming chief clerk and accountant at the University of Melbourne. He married artist Dora Beatrice Hake on 29 March 1910. They were to have three children. One son, Alan Geoffrey Serle, was selected as 1947 Victorian Rhodes scholar. Serle ran a second-hand bookshop during the depression; was guide-lecturer at the National Gallery of Victoria; curator of the Art Museum of the Gallery; and member of the council of the Victorian Artists Society. He was also president of the Australian Literature Society. Publications Serle's publications included an edition, with notes, of ''A Song to David and Other Poems'' by the 18th-century English poet, Christopher Smart; ''A Bibliography of Australasian Poetry and Ve ... [...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] |
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