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1939 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1939. Events ''The Queenslander'' ceases publication after the last edition on February 22 1939. The magazine was first published on February 3 1866 by Thomas Blacket Stephens in Brisbane and published serialised novels, poems and short stories by many Australian writers. Books * Erle Cox – ''Fool's Harvest'' * Miles Franklin and Dymphna Cusack – '' Pioneers on Parade'' * Arthur Gask ** ''The Fall of a Dictator'' ** ''The Vengeance of Larose'' * Michael Innes – ''Stop Press'' * Will Lawson – ''In Ben Boyd's Day'' * Jack Lindsay – ''Lost Birthright'' * Myra Morris – ''Dark Tumult'' * Henry Handel Richardson – '' The Young Cosima'' * Alice Grant Rosman – ''William's Room'' * Nevil Shute – ''What Happened to the Corbetts'' (aka ''Ordeal'') * Kylie Tennant – ''Foveaux'' * E. V. Timms – '' Dark Interlude'' * Arthur Upfield – '' The Mystery of Swordfis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Queenslander
''The Queenslander'' was the weekly summary and literary edition of the '' Brisbane Courier'', the leading journal in the colony—and later, federal state—of Queensland since the 1850s. ''The Queenslander'' was launched by the Brisbane Newspaper Company in 1866, and discontinued in 1939. History ''The Queenslander'' was first published on 3 February 1866 in Brisbane by Thomas Blacket Stephens. The last edition was printed on 22 February 1939. In a country the size of Australia, a daily newspaper of some prominence could only reach the bush and outlying districts if it also published a weekly edition. Yet ''The Queenslander'', under the managing editorship of Gresley Lukin—managing editor from November 1873 until December 1880—also came to find additional use as a literary magazine. In September 1919, a series of aerial photographs of Brisbane and its surrounding suburbs were published under the title, ''Brisbane By Air''. The photographs were taken by the newspape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Interlude
''Dark Interlude'' is an Australian novel by E. V. Timms. References External links''Dark Interlude''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 ... 1939 Australian novels Angus & Robertson books {{1930s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furnley Maurice
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, appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh McCrae
Hugh Raymond McCrae OBE (4 October 1876 – 17 February 1958) was an Australian writer, noted for his poetry. Life and career McCrae was born in Melbourne, the son of the Australian author George Gordon McCrae and grandson of the painter and diarist Georgiana McCrae. Originally he trained as an architect, but later took up drawing, writing and acting, settling eventually in Sydney and later in the New South Wales town of Camden. His works are notable for a sense of lightness and delicacy, and he produced, in addition to a volume of memoirs, a considerable body of verse, and a light operetta, an edition of his grandmother's journal, and a volume of prose pieces. McCrae starred as Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon in W. J. Lincoln's 1916 feature film '' The Life's Romance of Adam Lindsay Gordon'', shot in and around Melbourne. In the 1920s, Australian-born composer John Gough set McCrae's poem "Song of the Rain" (from the collection ''Colombine'') to music. McCrae wrote a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battlefields (poetry)
''Battlefields'' (1939) is a collection of poetry by Australian poet Mary Gilmore. The collection consists of 124 poems, the majority of which are published for the first time in this volume. Contents Reviews ''The Courier-Mail'' noted the publication of the collection in an editorial, stating: "This delightful book, with its six score poems and one, proves that the well of poetry in her heart has not dried up, and if they have not all been drawn from that fountain within the last lustrum (though many are quite recent) they are all well worth preserving. These pages, as might be expected, have the wistfulness of an aftermath garnered at eventide and tinged with the light of sunset...Her ear has never been dulled to "the still, sad music of humanity" by the glitter and clatter of this swiftly-moving age." ''The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English'' noted that the collection "maintains earlier ambivalences towards warfare, but the balance here is less towards praisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Gilmore
Dame Mary Jean Gilmore (née Cameron; 16 August 18653 December 1962) was an Australian writer and journalist known for her prolific contributions to Australian literature and the broader national discourse. She wrote both prose and poetry. Gilmore was born in rural New South Wales, and spent her childhood in and around the Riverina, living both in small bush settlements and in larger country towns like Wagga Wagga. Gilmore qualified as a schoolteacher at the age of 16, and after a period in the country was posted to Sydney. She involved herself with the burgeoning labour movement, and she also became a devotee of the utopian socialism views of William Lane. In 1893, Gilmore and 200 others followed Lane to Paraguay, where they formed the New Australia Colony. She started a family there, but the colony did not live up to expectations and they returned to Australia in 1902. Drawing on her connections in Sydney, Gilmore found work with '' The Australian Worker'' as the edito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Wall
Dorothy Wall (12 January 1894 – 21 January 1942) was a New Zealand-born writer and illustrator of children's fiction books. She is most famous for creating Blinky Bill, an anthropomorphic koala who was the central character in her books ''Blinky Bill: The Quaint Little Australian'' (1933), ''Blinky Bill Grows Up'' (1934) and ''Blinky Bill and Nutsy'' (1937). Most of her books were first published by Angus & Robertson. Biography Wall was born in Kilbirnie, New Zealand on 12 January 1894 of English parents, Charles James William Wall and Lillian née Palethorpe. In 1904, at the age of ten, she won scholarships for her art. She migrated to Australia in 1914 and worked for '' The Sun'' newspaper in Sydney. In 1920 her first children's story "Tommy Bear and the Zookies" was published and the following year she married Andrew Delfosse Badgery. The same year Wall found some acclaim for her illustrations in J.J. Hall's book "The Crystal Bowl". Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, sh ... [...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] |
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] |
Dal Stivens
Dallas George "Dal" Stivens (31 December 1911 – 15 June 1997) was an Australian writer who produced six novels and eight collections of short stories between 1936, when ''The Tramp and Other Stories'' was published, and 1976, when his last collection ''The Unicorn and Other Tales'' was released. Life and work He was born in Blayney, New South Wales, and grew up in West Wyalong where his father worked as bank manager. His observances of life in depression era country Australia were to become important to his later writing, and in particular to the folk tales for which he became famous in the 1940s and 1950s. Stivens served in the army during the second world war, on the staff of the Australian Department of Information. He moved to England after the war and was press officer at Australia House in London until 1950. Upon his return to Australia he became a tireless worker for the rights of authors based on the work he had observed from the Society of Authors in England. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard (4 December 18832 October 1969) was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. Early life Prichard was born in Levuka, Fiji in 1883 to Australian parents. She spent her childhood in Launceston, Tasmania, then moved to Melbourne, where she won a scholarship to South Melbourne College. Her father, Tom Prichard, was editor of the Melbourne '' Sun'' newspaper. She worked as a governess and journalist in Victoria, then travelled to England in 1908. Her first novel, ''The Pioneers'' (1915), won the Hodder & Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize.Throssel, Ric "Katharine Susannah Prichard 1883–1969", The Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre (website) After her return to Australia, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Valley (Patrick White Novel)
''Happy Valley'' is a 1939 novel by Australian author Patrick White. It won the 1941 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. White did not allow the novel to be republished in his lifetime. Not until 2012 would the book come back into print. White had dedicated the novel to artist Roy De Maistre. The book owed much to White's experiences as a jackaroo working at Adaminaby in the Snowy Mountains The Snowy Mountains, known informally as "The Snowies", is an IBRA subregion in southern New South Wales, Australia, and is the tallest mountain range in mainland Australia, being part of the continent's Great Dividing Range cordillera system ... of Southern New South Wales. References Novels by Patrick White 1939 Australian novels Adaminaby ALS Gold Medal winning works George G. Harrap and Co. books {{1930s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
