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Convict Once And Other Poems
''Convict Once and Other Poems'' (1885) is a collection of poetry by Australian poet James Brunton Stephens, J. Brunton Stephens. Although "highly valued by contemporary critics", Stephens's work is now largely ignored. The collection consists of 42 poems, "divided into two sections: the long narrative poem 'Convict Once', followed by 'Miscellaneous Poems'." Contents * "Convict Once : A Poem" * "Wikisource: My Chinee Cook, My Chinee Cook" * "Wikisource: My Other Chinee Cook, My Other Chinee Cook" * "Wikisource: To a Black Gin, To a Black Gin" * "A Piccaninny" * "Big Ben, the Alligator" * "Adelaide Ironside" * "Wikisource: The Dark Companion, The Dark Companion" * "A Brisbane Reverie : March, 1873" * "Lost Chance" * "The Squatter's Baccy Famine" * "The Antipodes" * "Spirit and Star" * "A Man and a Brother" * "Off the Track" * "The Headless Trooper" * "King Billy's Skull" * "Macaulay's New Zealander" * "The Power of Science" * "The Story of a Soul" * "Quart Pot Creek" * "'Our Hop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Brunton Stephens
James Brunton Stephens (17 June 1835 – 29 June 1902) was a Scottish-born Australian poet, and author of ''Convict Once''. Early life Stephens was born in Bo'ness, on the Firth of Forth, Scotland; the son of John Stephens, the parish schoolmaster, and his wife Jane, ''née'' Brunton. J. B. Stephens was educated at his father's school, then at a free boarding school and at the University of Edinburgh from 1849 to 1854 without obtaining a degree. For three years he was a travelling tutor on the continent, and from 1859 became a school teacher in Scotland. While teaching at Greenock Academy, Stephens wrote some minor verse and two short novels ('Rutson Morley' and 'Virtue Le Moyne') which were published in Sharpe's London Magazine in 1861–63. Career in Australia Stephens migrated to Queensland in 1866, possibly for health reasons. He was a tutor with the Barker family of squatters at Tamrookum station for some time and in 1870 entered the Queensland Education Department. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Robertson (publisher)
George Robertson (14 April 186027 August 1933) was an English-born Australian bookseller and publisher, who alongside partner and Scotsman David Angus co-founded the publishing division of Angus & Robertson. Biography Robertson, the son of the Rev. John Robertson, was born at Halstead, Essex, England. He was educated at the Southwestern Academy, Glasgow and trained as a bookseller with James Maclehose, bookseller to the University of Glasgow. He emigrated to New Zealand as a young man, and, two years later (in 1882), he relocated to Sydney, where he found employment at the local branch of George Robertson and Company, booksellers of Melbourne. He was not related to the founder of that firm. In January 1886 he joined David MacKenzie Angus in partnership, at first in Market Street, Sydney and later, in Castlereagh Street, Sydney. After Angus' death in 1900 Robertson continued in partnership with Frederick Wymark and Richard Thomson who had acquired Angus' share of the busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Chinee Cook
My or MY may refer to: Arts and entertainment * My (radio station), a Malaysian radio station * Little My, a fictional character in the Moomins universe * ''My'' (album), by Edyta Górniak * ''My'' (EP), by Cho Mi-yeon Business * Marketing year, variable period * Model year, product identifier Transport * Motoryacht * Motor Yacht, a name prefix for merchant vessels * Midwest Airlines (Egypt), IATA airline designation * MAXjet Airways, United States, defunct IATA airline designation Other uses * ''My'', the genitive form of the English pronoun ''I'' * Malaysia, ISO 3166-1 country code ** .my, the country-code top level domain (ccTLD) * Burmese language (ISO 639 alpha-2) * Megalithic Yard, a hypothesised, prehistoric unit of length * Million years See also * MyTV (other) * µ ("mu"), a letter of the Greek alphabet * Mi (other) * Me (other) * Myself (other) ''Myself'' is a reflexive pronoun in English. Myself may also ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Other Chinee Cook
My or MY may refer to: Arts and entertainment * My (radio station), a Malaysian radio station * Little My, a fictional character in the Moomins universe * ''My'' (album), by Edyta Górniak * ''My'' (EP), by Cho Mi-yeon Business * Marketing year, variable period * Model year, product identifier Transport * Motoryacht * Motor Yacht, a name prefix for merchant vessels * Midwest Airlines (Egypt), IATA airline designation * MAXjet Airways, United States, defunct IATA airline designation Other uses * ''My'', the genitive form of the English pronoun ''I'' * Malaysia, ISO 3166-1 country code ** .my, the country-code top level domain (ccTLD) * Burmese language (ISO 639 alpha-2) * Megalithic Yard, a hypothesised, prehistoric unit of length * Million years See also * MyTV (other) * µ ("mu"), a letter of the Greek alphabet * Mi (other) * Me (other) * Myself (other) ''Myself'' is a reflexive pronoun in English. Myself may also ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Companion
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dominion
A dominion was a self-governing autonomous state within the British Empire. Dominion may also refer to: Businesses and brands * Dominion (supermarket), in Canada * Dominion Diamond Mines, in Canada * Dominion Energy or Dominion, a utility in Virginia * Dominion Enterprises, a creator and distributor of free periodicals * Dominion Network, a Canadian radio network * Dominion Stores (Newfoundland), a supermarket chain in Canada * Dominion Theatre, in London, England * Dominion Voting Systems, a Canadian-American company that sells electronic voting systems * Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company (The Dominion), a defunct insurance company in Canada * The Dominion Bank, a defunct bank in Canada Entertainment Film *''Jurassic World Dominion'', a 2022 science fiction film * ''Dominion'' (documentary), a 2018 documentary about animal agriculture and animal rights * ''Dominion'' (2016 film), a biographical film about poet Dylan Thomas *'' Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsupial Bill
Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia, Wallacea and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the young are carried in a pouch. Marsupials include opossums, Tasmanian devils, kangaroos, koalas, wombats, wallabies, bandicoots, and the extinct thylacine. Marsupials represent the clade originating from the last common ancestor of extant metatherians, the group containing all mammals more closely related to marsupials than to placentals. They give birth to relatively undeveloped young that often reside in a pouch located on their mothers' abdomen for a certain amount of time. Close to 70% of the 334 extant species occur on the Australian continent (the mainland, Tasmania, New Guinea and nearby islands). The remaining 30% are found in the Americas—primarily in South America, thirteen in Central America, and one species, the Virginia opossum, in North America, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
1885 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire, using the pseudonym Adoré Floupette, publish ''Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette'', a parodic collection of poems satirising French symbolism and the Decadent movement. Works published in English Canada * Frederick George Scott, ''Justin and Other Poems''. Published at author's expense. United Kingdom * Maude Ashurst Biggs, ''Master Thaddeus'', first English translation of Adam Mickiewicz, ''Pan Tadeusz'' (1834) * Robert Bridges, ''Eros and Psyche'' * Charles Stuart Calverley (died 1884), ''Literary Remains'' * Jean Ingelow, ''Poems: Third Series'' (see also ''Poems'' 1863, ''Poems'' 1880) * William Morris, ''Chants for Socialists'' * Robert Louis Stevenson, ''A Child's Garden of Verses'' * Algernon Charles Swinburne, ''Marino Faliero'' * Edwin Arnold, ''The Song Celestial'' * Alfred Lord Tennyson, ''Tiresi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 Books
Events January–March * January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam. * January 4 – The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant, on Mary Gartside. * January 17 – Mahdist War in Sudan – Battle of Abu Klea: British troops defeat Mahdist forces. * January 20 – American inventor LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents a roller coaster. * January 24 – Irish rebels damage Westminster Hall and the Tower of London with dynamite. * January 26 – Mahdist War in Sudan: Troops loyal to Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad conquer Khartoum; British commander Charles George Gordon is killed. * February 5 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State, as a personal possession. * February 9 – The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii. * February 16 – Charles Dow publishes the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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