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1910 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1910. Books * Mary Gaunt – ''The Uncounted Cost'' * Fergus Hume – ''High Water Mark'' * G. B. Lancaster – ''Jim of the Ranges'' * Rosa Praed – ''Opal Fire'' * Ambrose Pratt ** ''A Daughter of the Bush'' ** ''The Living Mummy'' * Henry Handel Richardson – ''The Getting of Wisdom'' * Ethel Turner – ''Fair Ines'' * Lilian Turner – ''Three New Chum Girls'' * Wong Shee Ping — '' The Poison of Polygamy'' Short stories * Arthur Bayldon – ''The Tragedy Behind the Curtain and Other Stories'' * James Francis Dwyer – "A Jungle Graduate" * Henry Lawson – ''The Rising of the Court and Other Sketches in Prose and Verse'' * Sumner Locke – "When Dawson Died" * Steele Rudd ** ''The Dashwoods'' ** ''On an Australian Farm'' * Thomas Edward Spencer – ''The Haunted Shanty and Other Stories'' Poetry * E. J. Brady – ''Bush-Land Ballads'' * C. J. Dennis – "An Old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Gaunt
Mary Eliza Bakewell Gaunt (20 February 1861 – 19 January 1942) was an Australian novelist, born in Chiltern, Victoria. She also wrote collections of short stories, novellas, autobiographies, and non-fiction. She published her first novel ''Dave's Sweetheart'' in 1894. Gaunt visited many countries in her life and she wrote about her experiences in five travel books. Early life and education Mary was the elder daughter of William Henry Gaunt, a Victorian county court judge and Elizabeth Gaunt, née Palmer (c. 1835–1922), and was born in Chiltern, Victoria. She was educated at Grenville College, Ballarat and the University of Melbourne, being one of the first two women students to be admitted there. Career She began writing for the press and in 1894 published her first novel ''Dave's Sweetheart''. In the same year she married Dr Hubert Lindsay Miller (a widower) of Warrnambool, Victoria. He died in 1900, and, with only a small income, Gaunt (now also known as Mrs Mary Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Esson
Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson (10 August 1878 – 27 November 1943) was an Australian poet, journalist, critic and playwright. He was a co-founder of the Pioneer Players. His second wife, Hilda Esson (nee Bull), had a career in theatre besides working as a doctor in the field of public health. Early life and education Esson was born on 10 August 1878 at Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland, but moved to Melbourne, Australia, when he was three, along with his widowed mother. She had siblings in Melbourne, including artist John Ford Paterson, and Esson was raised mostly by his aunts. He attended the University of Melbourne from 1896, but did not finish his arts degree. Career Esson began working as a journalist and playwright afterwards, and visited London, Ireland, and Paris in 1904–1905. He met Irish playwrights J. M. Synge (in Paris) and W. B. Yeats (in Dublin), who suggested that he writes plays with Australian themes. He returned to Melbourne in 1906, hoping to establish the equiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Colebrook
Joan Colebrook (Heale) (1910–1991) was an Australian American writer and journalist. Life Joan Moffat Heale was born on 31 August 1910 and grew up on a dairy farm in Queensland, Australia. She took a BA from the University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ... in 1932 and worked as a freelance journalist. She married Mulford Albert Colebrook in 1933 and moved to England before settling permanently in Cape Cod in the US in the late 1940s. She had two sons and a daughter. Works Colebrook wrote several novels and non-fiction books. She wrote journalism for magazines including ''Commentary, The New Republic'' and ''The New Yorker''. One of her best received works was ''The Cross of Latitude,'' based on her experience as a social-worker and women's priso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1983. Events * The judges of the 1983 Miles Franklin Award announced there was no book entered of sufficient merit to receive the award. Major publications Novels * Brian Castro — ''Birds of Passage'' * Elizabeth Jolley ** ''Miss Peabody's Inheritance'' ** ''Mr Scobie's Riddle'' * Peter Kocan — ''The Cure'' * Kylie Tennant — ''Tantavallon'' * Morris West — '' The World Is Made of Glass'' Crime and mystery * Peter Corris — ''The Empty Beach'' * Gabrielle Lord — ''Tooth and Claw'' * Ian Moffitt — ''The Colour Man'' Science fiction and fantasy * A. Bertram Chandler — '' Kelly Country'' * Greg Egan – '' An Unusual Angle'' * Lee Harding — ''Waiting for the End of the World'' * George Turner — ''Yesterday's Men'' Short story collections * Beverley Farmer — ''Milk'' * Elizabeth Jolley — ''Woman in a Lampshade'' * David Malouf — ''Antipodes'' C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Moorehead
Alan McCrae Moorehead, (22 July 1910 – 29 September 1983) was a war correspondent and author of popular histories, most notably two books on the nineteenth-century exploration of the Nile, ''The White Nile'' (1960) and ''The Blue Nile'' (1962). Australian-born, he lived in England, and Italy, from 1937. Biography Alan Moorehead was born in Melbourne, Australia. He was educated at Scotch College, with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne. He travelled to England in 1937 and became a renowned foreign correspondent for the London ''Daily Express''. Writer, world traveller, biographer, essayist, journalist, Moorehead was one of the most successful writers in English of his day. He married Lucy Milner, who at the ''Daily Express'' in 1937 "presided over a women's page free of the patronising sentimentality which marked much writing for women at the time". During World War II he won an international reputation for his coverage of campaigns in the Middle East and As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1981. Events * Peter Carey won the 1981 Miles Franklin Award for '' Bliss'' Major publications Literary novels * Peter Carey — '' Bliss'' * Blanche d'Alpuget — '' Turtle Beach'' * David Foster — ''Moonlite'' * Miles Franklin — ''On Dearborn Street'' * David Ireland — ''City of Women'' * Elizabeth Jolley — ''The Newspaper of Claremont Street'' * Colleen McCullough — ''An Indecent Obsession'' * Morris West — '' The Clowns of God'' Crime and mystery * Marshall Browne — ''Dragon Strike'' * Peter Corris — ''White Meat'' Science fiction and fantasy * John Brosnan — ''Skyship'' * David Lake — ''The Man Who Loved Morlocks'' * Keith Taylor — ''Bard'' * George Turner — ''Vaneglory'' Children's and young adult fiction * Jan Ormerod — ''Sunshine'' * Ruth Park — '' The Muddle-Headed Wombat is Very Bad'' * Eleanor Spence – ''The Seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Sansom
Clive Sansom (21 June 1910 – 29 March 1981) was an English-born Tasmanian poet and playwright. He was also an environmentalist, who became the founding patron of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society. Life and work Sansom was born in East Finchley, London, and educated at Southgate County School, where he matriculated in 1926. He worked as a clerk/salesman for an ironworks company until 1934, and then studied speech and drama at the Regent Street Polytechnic and the London Speech Institute under Margaret Gullan. He went on to study phonetics under Daniel Jones at University College London, and joined the London Verse-Speaking Choir. He lectured in speech training at Borough Road Training College, Isleworth, and the Speech Fellowship in 1937–1939, and edited the ''Speech Fellowship Bulletin'' (1934–1949). He was also an instructor at the Drama School of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Sansom married the poet Ruth Large, a Tasmanian, in 1937, at the Quaker Friends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1998. Events * Peter Carey (novelist) won the Miles Franklin Award for '' Jack Maggs'' Major publications Novels * Murray Bail, ''Eucalyptus'' * Bryce Courtenay, '' Jessica'' * Luke Davies, '' Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction'' * Marion Halligan, ''The Golden Dress'' * Roger McDonald, ''Mr Darwin's Shooter'' * Les Murray (poet), '' Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse'' * Elliot Perlman, ''Three Dollars'' Children's and young adult fiction * Kim Caraher, ''The Cockroach Cup'' * Alison Goodman, '' Singing the Dogstar Blues'' * Phillip Gwynne, ''Deadly, Unna?'' * James Moloney, '' Angela'' Poetry * Lee Cataldi, ''Race Against Time: Poems'' * Lucy Dougan, ''Memory Shell'' * Jean Kent (poet), ''The Satin Bowerbird'' * Anthony Lawrence (poet), ''New and Selected Poems'' * Gig Ryan, ''Pure and Applied'' Drama * Jane Harrison (playwright), ''Stolen'' S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Riddell
Elizabeth Riddell (21 March 1910 – 3 July 1998) was an Australian poet and journalist. Life Born in Napier, New Zealand, Elizabeth Richmond Riddell came to Australia in 1928 where she worked at ''Smith's Weekly'' and won a Walkley Award. She married Edward Neville 'Blue' Greatorex (1901–1964) in Sydney in 1935. The couple did not have children. In 1935 she moved to England and during World War II worked for Ezra Norton at ''The Daily Mirror'', chiefly in New York City. Her first short book of poems, ''The Untrammelled'', was published in 1940. After the war she returned to Australia to continue working as a journalist, and in the 1960s became art critic and feature writer for ''The Australian''. She was the first Walkley Award winner for The Australian, winning in 1968 and 1969 for 'Best Newspaper Feature Story'. In 1986 she was awarded Critic of the Year by the '' Australian Book Review''. Riddell's poetry won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in 1992 and the Patrick ... [...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] |
The Poet (O'Dowd)
The Poet may refer to: * ''The Poet'' (album), an album by Bobby Womack * The Poet (essay), an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson *The Poet (1956 film), a Soviet drama film * The Poet (1998 film) *The Poet (2007 film), a Canadian drama film *The Poet (novel), a novel by Michael Connelly * ''The Poet'' (1911 painting), a painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso * ''The Poet'' (painting), a painting by Russian-French artist Marc Chagall *The Poets, a band from Glasgow *The Poet, a band from Puerto Rico *Peter Costa (poker player) Peter Costa (born 27 January 1956, in Cyprus) to Greek Cypriot parents is a British professional poker player based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is most well known as the winner of the sixth series of the popular ''Late Night Poker'' television se ..., a professional poker player whose nickname is "The Poet" See also * Poet (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Poet, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard O'Dowd
Bernard Patrick O'Dowd (11 April 1866 – 1 September 1953) was an Australian poet, activist, lawyer, and journalist. He worked for the Victorian colonial and state governments for almost 50 years, first as an assistant librarian at the Supreme Court in Melbourne, and later as a parliamentary draughtsman."Bernard O'Dowd 1866–1953 by P.D. Gardner" (history), P.D. Gardner & Joe Toscano, 1 October 2002, webpage: Takver-O'Dowd Life and work Bernard O'Dowd was born in 1866 at Beaufort, Victoria, as the eldest son of Irish migrants, Bernard O'Dowd and Ann Dowell. He was a child prodigy who read Milton's ''Paradise Lost'' at age 8 and was a student at Grenville College, Ballarat. His first job, aged 17, was as head teacher at a Catholic School in Ballarat, but he was soon dismissed for heresy. He then opened up his own school in Beaufort. In 1886, at the age of 20, he moved to Melbourne, and in 1887 took up a position as an assistant librarian in the Supreme Court Library ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
