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1917 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1917. Books * Randolph Bedford – ''The Silver Star'' * Capel Boake – ''Painted Clay'' * Mary Grant Bruce – ''Possum'' * G. B. Lancaster – ''Fool Divine'' * Henry Handel Richardson – '' Australia Felix'' * Ethel Turner – ''Captain Cub'' Short stories * Vance Palmer – "Tobacco" * A. B. Paterson – '' Three Elephant Power and Other Stories'' Poetry * Zora Cross – ''Songs of Love and Life'' * C. J. Dennis ** ''Doreen'' ** '' The Glugs of Gosh'' * Leon Gellert – '' Songs of a Campaign'' * Mary Gilmore ** "The Kiss" ** "The Mother" * Henry Lawson – "Scots of the Riverina" * Furnley Maurice – "1916" * A. B. Paterson – ''Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses'' Births A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1917 of Australian literary figures, authors o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randolph Bedford
Randolph Bedford (born George Randolph Bedford 27 June 1868 – 7 July 1941) was an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer and Queensland state politician. Early life Bedford was born in Camperdown, Sydney, the son of Alfred Bedford, who migrated from Yorkshire, England in 1859 and obtained work as a house painter. He was educated at the Newtown state school. At the age of 14, he worked with a Sydney solicitors firm as an office-boy. At 16 years of age he worked in the western district of New South Wales, shooting rabbits. He carried copies of Carlyle's ''French Revolution'', Shakespeare and the Bible. He worked for a year as a clerk in Hay and joined up with a repertory company run by Edmund Duggan, in Wagga Wagga. Literary career Bedford had a short story accepted by '' The Bulletin'' in 1886, the first of many contributions. In 1888 he worked for a time on the ''Argus'' (Broken Hill, NSW), and in 1889 on ''The Age'', Melbourne for about two years. Freelancing foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Cato
Nancy Fotheringham Cato (11 March 19173 July 2000) was an Australian writer who published more than twenty historical novels, biographies and volumes of poetry. Cato is also known for her work campaigning on environmental and conservation issues. Life Cato was born in Glen Osmond in South Australia, and was a fifth-generation Australian. She studied English literature and Italian at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1939, then completed a two-year course at the South Australian School of Arts. She was a cadet journalist on '' The News'' from 1935 to 1941, and an art critic from 1957 to 1958. Cato married Eldred De Bracton Norman, and travelled extensively overseas with him. They had one daughter and two sons. Cato died at Noosa Heads on 3 July 2000. Cato's cousin was also named Nancy Cato, and was host of children's TV show the ''Magic Circle Club'' in the mid-1960s. Literary career With Roland Robinson and Kevin Collopy, in 1948 Cato was one of the founding me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumner Locke Elliott
Sumner Locke Elliott (17 October 191724 June 1991) was an Australian (later American) novelist and playwright. Biography Elliott was born in Sydney to the writer Sumner Locke and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott. His mother died of eclampsia one day after his birth. Elliott was raised by his aunts, who had a fierce custody battle over him, fictionalised in Elliott's autobiographical novel, '' Careful, He Might Hear You''. Elliott was educated at Cranbrook School in Bellevue Hill, Sydney. World War II Elliott became an actor and writer with the Doris Fitton's The Independent Theatre Ltd. He was drafted into the Australian Army in 1942, but instead of being posted overseas, he worked as a clerk in Australia. He used these experiences as the inspiration for his controversial play, '' Rusty Bugles''. The play toured extensively throughout Australia and achieved the notoriety of being closed down for obscenity by the Chief Secretary's Office. However, ''Rusty Bugles place in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1976. Events * Major publications Books * Robert Drewe – ''The Savage Crows'' * David Ireland (author), David Ireland – ''The Glass Canoe'' * Thomas Keneally – ''Season in Purgatory'' * Frank Moorhouse – ''Conference-Ville'' * Gerald Murnane – ''A Lifetime on Clouds'' * Christina Stead – ''Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife)'' * Morris West – ''The Navigator (West novel), The Navigator'' * Patrick White – ''A Fringe of Leaves'' Short stories * Elizabeth Jolley – ''Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories'' * Dal Stivens – ''The Unicorn and Other Tales'' Science Fiction and Fantasy * A. Bertram Chandler – ''The Way Back'' * Lee Harding (writer), Lee Harding ** ''The Altered I : An Encounter with Science Fiction'' (edited) ** ''Beyond Tomorrow'' (edited) ** ''Future Sanctuary'' * David Lake (writer), David Lake – ''Walkers on the Sky'' Children's and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McAuley
James Phillip McAuley (12 October 1917 – 15 October 1976) was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, Australian literature, literary critic and a prominent convert to Roman Catholicism. He was involved in the Ern Malley poetry hoax. Life and career McAuley was born in Lakemba, New South Wales, Lakemba, a suburb of Sydney. He was educated at Fort Street High School and then attended Sydney University, where he majored in English, Latin and philosophy (which he studied under John Anderson (philosopher), John Anderson. In 1937 he edited ''Hermes (publication), Hermes'', the annual literary journal of the University of Sydney Union, in which many of his early poems, beginning in 1935, were published until 1941. He began his life as an Anglicanism, Anglican and was sometime organist and choirmaster at Holy Trinity Church, Dulwich Hill, New South Wales, Dulwich Hill, in Sydney. He lost his Christian faith as a younger man. In 1943, he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |