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1885 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1885. Books * Francis Adams — ''Leicester : An Autobiography'' * Rolf Boldrewood ** ''The Crooked Stick, or, Pollie's Probation'' ** ''The Sealskin Cloak'' * Ada Cambridge — ''A Little Minx : A Sketch'' * Mary Fortune — ''Dan Lyons' Doom'' * Rosa Praed ** ''Affinities : A Romance of To-Day'' ** ''The Head Station : A Novel of Australian Life'' Poetry * Victor Daley ** " On the River" ** " On the Shore" * George Essex Evans — " Australia Militant" * Mary Hannay Foott ** " Happy Days" ** " No Message" ** ''Where the Pelican Builds and Other Poems'' * Philip J. Holdsworth — " My Queen of Dreams" * Henry Parkes — ''The Beauteous Terrorist and Other Poems'' * A. B. Paterson — " El Mahdi to the Australian Troops" * J. Brunton Stephens — ''Convict Once and Other Poems'' Short stories * Rolf Boldrewood ** "A Canvas Town Romance" ** "A Transformation Scene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Adams (writer)
Francis William Lauderdale Adams (27 September 1862 – 4 September 1893) was an essayist, poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist who produced a large volume of work in his short life. Early years Adams was born in Malta the son of Andrew Leith Adams F. R. S., F. G. S., an army surgeon, who later became well known as a scientist, a fellow of the Royal Society, and an author of natural history books set in different parts of the British Empire. Francis's mother, Bertha Jane Grundy, became a well-known novelist. After his education at Shrewsbury School he served from 1879 as an attaché in Paris, and then took up a teaching position as an assistant master at Ventnor on the Isle of Wight for two years. Adams joined the Social Democratic Federation, the first avowedly Marxist political party in the UK, in London in 1883. Australia In 1884 he married Helen Uttley and migrated to Australia, where he started work as a tutor on a station at Jerilderie, New South Wales, but soon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Mahdi To The Australian Troops
EL, El or el may refer to: Religion * El (deity), a Semitic word for "God" People * EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer * El DeBarge, music artist * El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American politician * Ephrat Livni (born 1972), American street artist Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * El, a character from the manga series ''Shugo Chara!'' by Peach-Pit * El, short for Eleven, a fictional character in the TV series ''Stranger Things'' * El, family name of Kal-El (Superman) and his father Jor-El in ''Superman'' *E.L. Faldt, character in the road comedy film ''Road Trip'' Literature * ''Él'', 1926 autobiographical novel by Mercedes Pinto * ''Él'' (visual novel), a 2000 Japanese adult visual novel Music * Él Records, an independent record label from the UK founded by Mike Alway * ''Él'' (Lucero album), a 1982 album by Lucero * "Él", Spanish song by Rubén Blades from ''Caminando'' (album) * "Él" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vance Palmer
Edward Vivian "Vance" Palmer (28 August 1885 – 15 July 1959) was an Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic. Early life Vance Palmer was born in Bundaberg, Queensland, on 28 August 1885 and attended the Ipswich Grammar School. With no university in Queensland, he studied contemporary Australian writing at the intellectual hub in Brisbane at the time, the School of Arts, following the work of A. G. Stephens. Working in various jobs, he took a position as a tutor at Abbieglassie cattle station, west of Brisbane in the 'back of beyond'. He also worked as a manager: at that time there was a large Aboriginal population with whom he both worked and celebrated, attending their frequent corroborrees. It was here his love of the land and environmental awareness was honed, so too his interest in white black relationships. From his early years he was determined to be a writer, and in 1905 and again in 1910 he went to London, then the centre of Australia's cultural universe, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1964. Major publications Books * Russell Braddon – ''The Year of the Angry Rabbit'' * A. Bertram Chandler – ''The Deep Reaches of Space'' * Jon Cleary ** '' The Fall of an Eagle'' ** '' A Flight of Chariots'' * Charmian Clift – ''Honour's Mimic'' * Dymphna Cusack – ''Black Lightning'' * George Johnston – ''My Brother Jack'' * Thomas Keneally – '' The Place at Whitton'' * David Rowbotham – ''The Man in the Jungle'' * Judah Waten – ''Distant Land'' Short stories * Nancy Cato – ''The Sea Ants and Other Stories'' * A. Bertram Chandler – ''Into the Alternate Universe : The Coils of Time'' * Peter Cowan – "The Tractor" * Damien Broderick – "All My Yesterdays" * Frank Dalby Davison – ''The Road to Yesterday : Collected Short Stories'' * Patrick White – '' The Burnt Ones'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Hesba Brinsmead – ''Pastures of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nettie Palmer
Janet Gertrude "Nettie" Palmer (née Higgins) (18 August 1885 – 19 October 1964) was an Australian poet, essayist and Australia's leading literary critic of her day. She corresponded with women writers and collated the Centenary Gift Book which gathered together writing by Victorian women. Early life Nettie Higgins was born in Bendigo, Victoria, the niece of both H.B. Higgins, a leading Victorian radical political figure and later a federal minister and justice of the High Court of Australia, and of H.B. Higgins' sister, Ina Higgins, the first female landscape architect in Victoria. A brilliant scholar and linguist, Nettie was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne, the University of Melbourne and studied phonetics in Germany and France for the International Diploma of Phonetics. She was active in literary and socialist circles on her return to Melbourne and formed a deep and long term relationship with the visionary poet Bernard O'Dowd. While her brother Esmon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1978. Events * Jessica Anderson won the 1978 Miles Franklin Award for '' Tirra Lirra by the River'' * The Anne Elder Award for poetry is awarded for the first time Major publications Books * Jessica Anderson – '' Tirra Lirra by the River'' * Nancy Cato – '' All the Rivers Run'' * David Malouf – '' An Imaginary Life'' * Christopher Koch – '' The Year of Living Dangerously'' * George Turner – ''Transit of Cassidy'' Science fiction and fantasy * A. Bertram Chandler — ''To Keep the Ship'' * David Lake — ''The Gods of Xuma, or, Barsoom Revisited'' * George Turner – ''Beloved Son'' Crime and mystery * Nicholas Hasluck — ''Quarantine'' Children's and young adult fiction * Peter Pavey – ''One Dragon's Dream'' * Joan Phipson – ''Keep Calm'' * Patricia Wrightson – ''The Dark Bright Water'' Poetry * David Campbell — "Lizard and Stone" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Lindsay
Rose Lindsay (1885–1978), née Rosa Soady, was an Australian artist's model, author, and printmaker. Early life Rose Lindsay (née Soady) was born at Gosford, New South Wales on 5 July 1885 and named Rosa. Her parents were John and Rosa Soady. Career Artist's model She was introduced to Norman Lindsay in 1902 by Julian Rossi Ashton, and began modeling for Lindsay that same year. She became his principal model and later his lover, and after his marriage ended she joined him in London in 1910. She was Lindsay's business manager and most recognizable model, as well as being the printer for most of his etchings. In 1913 a pen-and-ink drawing she had posed for called ''Crucified Venus'' was shown at the Society of Artists' exhibition in Melbourne, but the Melbourne committee removed it from public view due to scandal over its eroticism. However, Julian Rossi Ashton, who was the president of the Society of Artists, said he would withdraw all the New South Wales paintings from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1968. Major publications Books * Thea Astley – '' A Boat Load of Home Folk'' * Kenneth Cook – ''The Wine of God's Anger'' * Frank Dalby Davison – ''The White Thorntree'' * Geoffrey Dutton – ''Andy'' * David Ireland – ''The Chantic Bird'' * Thomas Keneally – ''Three Cheers for the Paraclete'' * Norman Lindsay – ''Rooms and Houses'' * John O'Grady – ''Gone Troppo'' * F. J. Thwaites – '' Sky Full of Thunder'' * Morris West – ''The Tower of Babel'' Short stories * Louise Elizabeth Rorabacher – ''Aliens in Their Land : The Aborigine in the Australian Short Story'' (edited) * Patrick White – "Five-Twenty" * Michael Wilding – "Joe's Absence" Science fiction and fantasy * John Baxter – ''The Pacific Book of Australian Science Fiction'' (edited) * A. Bertram Chandler – ''Spartan Planet'' (aka ''False Fatherland'') Children's and Young Adult fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothea Mackellar
Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar, (1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968) was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem ''My Country'' is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "''I love a sunburnt country/A land of sweeping plains,/Of ragged mountain ranges,/Of droughts and flooding rains."'' Life The third child and only daughter of physician and parliamentarian Sir Charles Mackellar and his wife Marion Mackellar (née Buckland), the daughter of Thomas Buckland, she was born in the family home ''Dunara'' at Point Piper, Sydney, Australia in 1885. Her later home was ''Cintra'' at Darling Point (built in 1882 by John Mackintosh for his son James), and in 1925, she commissioned a summer cottage (in reality a substantial home with colonnaded verandah overlooking Pittwater), "Tarrangaua" at Lovett Bay, an isolated location on Pittwater reachable only by boat (this home is currently the residence of the novelist and author Susan Duncan and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1969. Major publications Books * Mena Calthorpe – ''The Defectors'' * Jon Cleary – ''Remember Jack Hoxie'' * Dymphna Cusack – '' The Half-Burnt Tree'' * Sumner Locke Elliott – ''Edens Lost'' * George Johnston – '' Clean Straw for Nothing'' * Thomas Keneally – '' The Survivor'' * D'Arcy Niland – '' Dead Men Running'' Short stories * Manning Clark – ''Disquiet and Other Stories'' *Lyndall Hadow – ''Full Cycle and Other Stories'' * T. A. G. Hungerford – "Wong Chu and the Queen's Letterbox" * Frank Moorhouse – ''Futility and Other Animals'' * Dal Stivens – ''Selected Stories 1936-1968'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Hesba Brinsmead – ''Isle of the Sea Horse'' * Joan Phipson – ''Peter and Butch'' * Ivan Southall – ''Finn's Folly'' * Eleanor Spence – ''Jamberoo Road'' * Colin Thiele – ''Blue Fin'' Poetry * Bruce Beaver – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry George Lamond
Henry George Lamond (13 June 1885 – 12 July 1969) was an Australian farmer and writer, notable for his novels about the land, people and animals of outback Queensland. In addition to his fiction and non-fiction books, he wrote over 900 essays and articles for magazines including ''Walkabout''. At one point in his career he was considered to be the Australian ' Thompson Seton'. Lamond was born at Carl Creek in Queensland's Gulf Country and educated at Brisbane Grammar School and the Queensland Agricultural College, Gatton. He was the son of later police inspector James Lamond. From 1902 to 1927 he worked at jobs ranging from jackaroo to horse-breaker to manager on various properties in western Queensland. On 27 June 1910 Lamond married Eileen Meta Olive McMillan at Maneroo Station, about from Longreach. The couple had a daughter and two sons (one of whom, Hal, was killed in 1942 while serving with the Royal Australian Air Force). From 1927 to 1937 he leased the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1919. Books * Randolph Bedford — ''Aladdin and the Boss Cockie'' * Erle Cox — ''Out of the Silence'' * Edward Dyson — ''The Escapades of Ann'' * Mary Gaunt — ''A Wind from the Wilderness'' * Jack McLaren — ''The Skipper of the Roaring Meg'' * Harrison Owen — ''The Mount Marunga Mystery'' * Arthur J. Rees — ''The Shrieking Pit'' * Steele Rudd — ''We Kaytons'' * Ethel Turner — ''Brigid and the Cub'' Poetry * E. J. Brady — ''House of the Winds'' * John Le Gay Brereton — ''The Burning Marl'' * C. J. Dennis — ''Jim of the Hills'' * Edward Dyson — ''Hello, Soldier!: Khaki Verse'' * Will Dyson — "Death is but Death" * John Shaw Neilson — ''Heart of Spring'' * Vance Palmer — "The Dandenongs" * A. B. Paterson — " Boots" Short stories * Basil Garstang — "Robson" * Dowell O'Reilly — "Twilight" Births A list, ordered by date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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