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1891 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1891. Books * Jennings Carmichael – ''Hospital Children: sketches of life and character in the Children's Hospital, Melbourne'' * Fergus Hume – ''Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage'' * Hume Nisbet — ''The Savage Queen: A Romance of the Natives of Van Dieman's Land'' Short stories * Mary Gaunt – "The Yanyilla Steeplechase" * Louisa Lawson – "A Bush Experience" * A. B. Paterson ** " The Cast-Iron Canvasser" ** "His Masterpiece" * Rosa Praed – "The Bunyip" * Price Warung ** "John Price's Bar of Steel" ** "The Liberation of the First Three" Poetry * Barcroft Boake ** " The Digger's Song" ** " On the Range" ** "Where the Dead Men Lie" * Victor J. Daley – "Lachesis" * George Essex Evans ** " An Australian Symphony" ** ''The Repentance of Magdalene Despar and Other Poems'' * Henry Lawson ** " Freedom on the Wallaby" ** " My Literary Friend" ** " The Sham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennings Carmichael
Jennings Carmichael (24 February 1867 – 9 February 1904) was an Australian poet and nurse. Life Grace Elizabeth Jennings Carmichael was born on 24 February 1867 at Ballarat, Victoria. The daughter of Archibald Carmichael, a miner from Perthshire, Scotland and Margaret Jennings, née Clark, from Cornwall. She was educated at Melbourne, while still a child went to live on a station at Orbost, and grew up close to the bush she came to love so much. She went to Melbourne to be trained as a nurse at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. Carmichael joined the Buonarottii Club before 1887, and was a member of the Austral Salon in the 1890s giving a public lecture on "The Spirit of the Bush" in September 1895 at the Masonic Hall in Melbourne with Alfred Deakin as chairman. In 1891, Carmichael published a small volume of prose sketches, ''Hospital Children''. Having qualified as a nurse she obtained a position on a station near Geelong, and subsequently married Francis Mullis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |