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1889 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1889. Books * Ada Cambridge – ''A Woman's Friendship'' * Fergus Hume ** ''The Girl from Malta'' ** ''Lady Jezebel'' * Hume Nisbet – ''Doctor Bernard St. Vincent : A Sensational Romance of Sydney'' * Rosa Praed – ''The Romance of a Station'' * Catherine Helen Spence – ''A Week in the Future'' Short stories * Francis Adams ** "Lily Davenant, Will Jeckyll's Version" ** "Miss Jackson" * Edward Dyson – "The Washerwoman of Jacker's Flat" * Henry Lawson – "The Story of Malachi" * A. B. Paterson – "Hughey's Dog : A Station Sketch" Poetry * Edward Dyson – " The Worked-Out Mine" * Henry Lawson ** " The Ballad of the Drover" ** " The Ghost" ** " The Roaring Days" ** "The Teams" * Henry Parkes – ''Fragmentary Thoughts'' * A. B. Paterson ** "Clancy of the Overflow" ** " How McGinness Went Missing" ** " An Idyll of Dandaloo" Births A list, ordered by date of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Cambridge
Ada Cambridge (21 November 1844 – 19 July 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was an English-born Australian writer. She wrote more than 25 works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.Cato (1989) p. v Many of her novels were serialised in Australian newspapers but never published in book form. While she was known to friends and family by her married name, Ada Cross, her newspaper readers knew her as ''A.C.'' She later reverted to her maiden name, Ada Cambridge, and that is how she is known today. Life Ada was born at Wiggenhall St Germans, St Germans, Norfolk, the second child of Thomasine and Henry Cambridge, a gentleman farmer. She was educated by governesses, an experience she abhorred. She wrote in a book of reminiscences: "I can truthfully affirm that I never learned anything which would now be considered worth learning until I had done with them all and started foraging for myself. I did have a few months of boarding-school at the end, and went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Dwyer
Vera Gladys Dwyer (23 February 1889 – 10 September 1967) was an Australian novelist. She also contributed stories to magazines and newspapers. Life Dwyer was born in Hobart on 23 February 1889, the second daughter of reporter, George Lovell Dwyer and Margaret Jane (née Shield). Her older sister, Ella Maggie Dwyer (9 March 1887 – 6 September 1979), became a printmaker who also designed bookplates. She was educated at Friends' School, Hobart, Friends School in Hobart, but when the family moved to Sydney by 1902 where her father joined the ''Evening News'' she was taught by governesses. At age nine, she wrote to "Aunt Mary", editor of the Children's Column in the Perth weekly, the ''Western Mail (Western Australia), Western Mail'', sharing a very short story called "The Clock". The following year she began writing to "Dame Durden" (Ethel Turner), who in December 1899 accepted her story "Earwigs and Apricots" for publication in ''Australian Town and Country Journal''. She be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |