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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] |
James Bonwick
James Bonwick (8 July 1817 – 6 February 1906) was an English-born Australian historical and educational writer. Early life Bonwick was born Lingfield, Surrey, England, the eldest son of James Bonwick, carpenter, and his second wife Mary Ann ''née'' Preston. James Bonwick, the elder, was a man of some mechanical ability, but he suffered from ill health, and his children were brought up in poor circumstances. His eldest son was educated at the Borough Road school, Southwark, and at 17 years of age began teaching at a school at Hemel Hempstead and similar positions followed at Bexley and Liverpool. In April 1840 he married Esther Ann Beddow, the daughter of a Baptist clergyman, and in the following year obtained a position at the Normal School, Hobart, Tasmania. Career in Australia Teacher Bonwick and his wife arrived at Hobart on 10 October 1841. He was a successful teacher in Hobart for eight years and published the first of his many school books ''Geography for the Use of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1953. Books * Charmian Clift and George Johnston – ''The Big Chariot'' * Dymphna Cusack – ''Southern Steel'' * Eleanor Dark – ''No Barrier'' * Helen Heney – ''Dark Moon'' * T. A. G. Hungerford – ''Riverslake'' * Eve Langley – ''Wild Australia'' * Jack Lindsay – ''Betrayed Spring : A Novel of the British Way'' * Ruth Park – ''A Power of Roses'' * Nevil Shute – ''In the Wet'' * Kylie Tennant – ''The Joyful Condemned'' * E. V. Timms – ''The Scarlet Frontier'' * Arthur Upfield – ''Murder Must Wait'' Short stories * A. Bertram Chandler – "Jetsam" * T. Inglis Moore – ''Australia Writes: An Anthology'' (edited) * Stephen Murray-Smith – ''The Tracks We Travel : Australian Short Stories'' (edited) * Colin Roderick – ''Australian Round-Up : Stories from 1790 to 1950'' (edited) * Dal Stivens – ''The Gambling Ghost and Other Tales'' * Judith Wrigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1873 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1873. Events *January 1 – Chicago Public Library opens in an old water tank in the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. *March 3 **The United States Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail. **The first performance of W. S. Gilbert and Gilbert Arthur à Beckett's play ''The Happy Land'' at the Royal Court Theatre, London, parodies William Ewart Gladstone, Robert Lowe, and Acton Smee Ayrton, respectively the prime minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and First Commissioner of Works. *March 10 – The first Azerbaijani play ''The Adventure of a Miser (The Adventures of the Vizier of the Khan of Lenkaran)'' by Mirza Fatali Akhundov is performed by Hasan bey Zardabi and dramatist Najaf bey Vazirov. *March 18 – Leo Tolstoy begins his novel ''Anna Karenina'', which is serialized in '' Russkiy Vestnik'' (Moscow) bet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1873 In Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1873 in Australia. Incumbents Governors Governors of the Australian colonies: *Governor of New South Wales – Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead *Governor of Queensland – George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby *Governor of South Australia – Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet, then Anthony Musgrave *Governor of Tasmania – Charles Du Cane *Governor of Victoria – John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury, then George Bowen *Governor of Western Australia – The Hon. Sir Frederick Weld GCMG. Premiers Premiers of the Australian colonies: *Premier of New South Wales – Henry Parkes *Premier of Queensland – Arthur Hunter Palmer *Premier of South Australia – Henry Ayers, until 22 July then Arthur Blyth *Premier of Tasmania – Frederick Innes, until 4 August then Alfred Kennerley *Premier of Victoria – James Francis Events * 9 December – More than 1,000 striking gold miners attack police and Chinese workers br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Theresa Vidal
Mary Theresa Vidal (née Johnson) (23 June 1815 – 19 November 1873) was a British–Australian writer described as Australia's first female novelist. Life Mary was born in Devon, England, the daughter of Britton William Johnson and his wife, Mary Theresa, daughter of P. W. Furse. The poet William Johnson, who took the name of Cory in 1872, was a younger brother. In 1840 she married the Rev. Francis Vidal and came with him to Australia. Her husband had an extensive parish to the south-west of Sydney, at Penrith. In 1845, Vidal's first book, ''Tales for the Bush'', was published in Sydney, apparently intended as an instructive work for her servants. Soon afterwards she returned with her husband to England. Ten other volumes of tales and novels were published between 1846 and 1866. She sometimes made use of her experiences in Australia, especially in ''Bengala, or Some Time Ago'' (1860). Some of these books ran into more than one edition. She died in 1873 and was survived by ... [...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 compare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonora Polkinghorne
Leonora Ethel Polkinghorne (née Twiss) (1873 – 11 May 1953) was an Australian women's activist and writer. Biography Polkinghorne was born in Ballarat, Victoria, but subsequently moved to South Australia as a child. She was a teacher before her marriage, teaching mathematics and French at the Christ Church Day School in North Adelaide and later becoming co-principal. She became involved in politics around 1909, when she became a founding member of the Women's Non-Party Association of South Australia (later the League of Women Voters) and honorary treasurer of the short-lived Registered Governesses Association. She married Oswald Polkinghorne in December 1910. They had five children. She served as president of the South Australian division of the Housewives' Association in 1928–29. She was also a vice-president and executive member of the Women's Non-Party Association for a period in the late 1920s and early 1930s, taking over as president from 1938 to 1940. She unsuccessfu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1965. Major publications Books * Thea Astley – ''The Slow Natives'' * Clive Barry – '' Crumb Borne'' * Nancy Cato – ''North West by South'' * Don Charlwood – ''All the Green Year'' * Catherine Gaskin – ''The File on Devlin'' * Donald Horne – ''The Permit'' * George Johnston – ''The Far Face of the Moon'' * Thomas Keneally – '' The Fear'' * Christopher Koch – ''Across the Sea Wall'' * Eric Lambert – ''The Long White Night'' * D'Arcy Niland – ''The Apprentices'' * Randolph Stow – ''The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea'' * George Turner – ''A Waste of Shame'' * Morris West – '' The Ambassador'' Short stories * Mena Kasmiri Abdullah and Ray Mathew – ''The Time of the Peacock: Stories'' *Damien Broderick – ''A Man Returned'' * Peter Cowan – ''The Empty Street: Stories'' * John K. Ewers – ''Modern Australian Short Stories'' (edited) * Thelma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrude Hart
Ethel Gertrude Hart (1873 – 28 January 1965) was an Australian children's novelist, short story writer and poet. With Bernard Cronin, she founded the Old Derelicts' Club in 1920 which later became the Society of Australian Authors. Biography Ethel Gertrude Hart was born in 1873 in the Melbourne suburb of Williamstown, and grew up in Stawell in western Victoria. She was educated at Hohenloe College, a private girls' school in Warrnambool. Her first book, ''Wanted – A Servant: An Australian Story'', was published in England in 1890. Her poetry appeared in the Melbourne press from 1911 through to the 1950s when she wrote "Australia Speaks Its Love", celebrating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the royal visit to Australia in 1954. On the day she received the first copy of her 1912 romance novel, ''The Dream Girl'', she walked for the first time in seven years, following successful surgery. Doubleday Doran & Co. bought the rights to publish it in the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1954. Events * Charlotte Jay (pseudonym of Geraldine Halls) won the inaugural Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel for '' Beat Not the Bones'' Books * James Aldridge – ''Heroes of the Empty View'' * Jon Cleary – ''The Climate of Courage'' * Miles Franklin – '' Cockatoos : A Story of Youth and Exodists'' * Catherine Gaskin – ''Sara Dane'' * T. A. G. Hungerford – ''Sowers of the Wind : A Novel of the Occupation of Japan'' * Eric Lambert ** ''The Five Bright Stars'' ** ''The Veterans'' * Eve Langley – ''White Topee'' * Kenneth Mackenzie – '' The Refuge'' * Alan Moorehead – ''A Summer Night'' * E. V. Timms – '' The Fury'' * Judah Waten – ''The Unbending'' Crime and mystery * Charlotte Jay — '' Beat Not the Bones'' * Arthur Upfield ** ''Death of a Lake'' ** ''Sinister Stones'' Short stories * A. Bertram Chandler – "Shadow Before" * David Martin â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1945. Events * June – Ern Malley hoax: Australia's most celebrated literary hoax takes place when ''Angry Penguins'' is published with poems by the fictional Ern Malley. Poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart Harold Frederick Stewart (14 December 19167 August 1995) was an Australian poet and oriental scholar. He is chiefly remembered alongside fellow poet James McAuley as a co-creator of the Ern Malley literary hoax. Stewart's work has been asso ... created the poems from lines of other published work and then sent them as the purported work of a recently deceased poet. The hoax is played on Max Harris, at this time a 22-year-old avant garde poet and critic who had started the modernist magazine ''Angry Penguins''. Harris and his circle of literary friends agreed that a hitherto completely unknown modernist poet of great merit had come to light in suburban Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
