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While The Billy Boils (collection)
''While the Billy Boils '' is a collection of short stories by the Australian writer Henry Lawson, published by Angus and Robertson in 1896. It includes "The Drover's Wife (short story), The Drover's Wife", "On the Edge of a Plain", and "The Union Buries Its Dead".Austlit - ''While the Billy Boils'' by Henry Lawson The collection consists of 52 short stories from a variety of sources. Some are published here for the first time. Contents * "An Old Mate of Your Father's" * "Settling on the Land" * "Enter Mitchell" * "Stiffner and Jim (Thirdly, Bill)" * "When the Sun Went Down" * "The Man Who Forgot" * "Hungerford" * "A Camp-Fire Yarn" * "His Country - After All" * "A Day on a Selection" * "That There Dog O' Mine" * "Going Blind" * "Arvie Aspinall's Alarm C ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank P
Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Currency * Liechtenstein franc or frank, the currency of Liechtenstein since 1920 * Swiss franc or frank, the currency of Switzerland since 1850 * Westphalian frank, currency of the Kingdom of Westphalia between 1808 and 1813 * The currencies of the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland (1803–1814): ** Appenzell frank ** Argovia frank ** Basel frank ** Berne frank ** Fribourg frank ** Glarus frank ** Graubünden frank ** Luzern frank ** Schaffhausen frank ** Schwyz frank ** Solothurn frank ** St. Gallen frank ** Thurgau frank ** Unterwalden frank ** Uri frank ** Zürich frank Places * Frank, Alberta, Canada, an urban community, formerly a village * Franks, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community * Franks, Missouri, Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Lawson
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer". A vocal nationalist and republican, Lawson regularly contributed to '' The Bulletin'', and many of his works helped popularise the Australian vernacular in fiction. He wrote prolifically into the 1890s, after which his output declined, in part due to struggles with alcoholism and mental illness. At times destitute, he spent periods in Darlinghurst Gaol and psychiatric institutions. After he died in 1922 following a cerebral haemorrhage, Lawson became the first Australian writer to be granted a state funeral. He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist Louisa Lawson. Family and early life Henry Lawson was born 17 June 1867 in a town on the Grenfell goldfields of ... [...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] |
Angus And Robertson
Angus & Robertson (A&R) is a major Australian bookseller, publisher and printer. As book publishers, A&R has contributed substantially to the promotion and development of Australian literature.Alison, Jennifer (2001). "Publishers and editors: Angus & Robertson, 1888–1945". In: ''The History of the Book in Australia 1891–1945''. (Edited by Martyn Lyons & John Arnold), pp. 27–36. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press. This well known Australian brand currently exists as an online shop owned by online bookseller Booktopia. The Angus & Robertson imprint is still seen in books published by HarperCollins, a News Corporation company. Bookselling history The first bookstore was opened in 110½ Market Street, Sydney by Scotsman David Mackenzie Angus (1855-1901) in 1884; it initially sold only secondhand books. In 1886, he went into partnership with fellow Scot George Robertson. This George Robertson should not be confused with his older contemporary, George Robertson th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1896 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1896. Books * Guy Boothby ** ''The Beautiful White Devil'' ** ''Doctor Nikola'' * Ernest Favenc – ''The Moccasins of Silence'' * E. W. Hornung – ''The Rogue's March: A Romance'' * Fergus Hume – ''The Expedition of Captain Flick'' * Louise Mack – '' The World is Round'' * Ethel Turner – ''The Little Larrikin'' Short stories * Barbara Baynton – "The Tramp" (aka "The Chosen Vessel") * Ada Cambridge – "The Wind of Destiny" * Albert Dorrington – "A Bush Tanqueray" * Edward Dyson ** "Court Day at Billybilly" ** "The Elopement of Mrs Peters" ** "Spicer's Courtship" * Henry Lawson ** "Black Joe" ** "The Geological Spieler" ** ''While the Billy Boils'' * Louisa Lawson – "What the Frogs Said" * K. Langloh Parker – ''Australian Legendary Tales'' (edited) * A. B. Paterson – "White-When-He's-Wanted" * Steele Rudd – "Dad and the Two Donovans" * Charles Henry S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Days When The World Was Wide And Other Verses
''In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses'' (1896) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet and author Henry Lawson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1896, and features the poet's widely anthologised poems "The Free Selector's Daughter", " Andy's Gone with Cattle", "Middleton's Rouseabout" and the best of Lawson's contributions to The Bulletin Debate, a famous dispute in '' The Bulletin'' magazine from 1892-93 between Lawson and Banjo Paterson. The collection contains a dedication to J. F. Archibald and on the title page a sketch by Frank Mahony of Lawson 'humping his bluey'. Contents * "To an Old Mate" * " In the Days When the World Was Wide" * " Faces in the Street" * " The Roaring Days" * "'For'ard'" * "The Drover's Sweetheart" * " Out Back" * "The Free-Selector's Daughter" * "'Sez You'" * " Andy's Gone with Cattle" * "Jack Dunn of Nevertire" * "Trooper Campbell" * " The Sliprails and the Spur" * " Past Carin'" * "The Glass on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Drover's Wife (short Story)
"The Drover's Wife" is a dramatic short story by the Australian writer Henry Lawson. It recounts the story of a woman left alone with her four children in an isolated hut in the outback in the late 19th century.''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'', 2nd edition, p. 241 The story was first published in the 23 July 1892 edition of '' The Bulletin'' magazine, and was subsequently reprinted in a number of the author's collections as well as other anthologies. Plot A woman in the outback is isolated in a small hut with her four children. Her husband has been away droving for six months and near sunset one day a snake disappears under the house. The children are put to bed and the woman waits with her dog, Alligator, for the snake to re-appear. Near dawn the snake emerges and it is killed by the woman and dog. The story shows the struggle of a lone woman against nature. Publications "The Drover's Wife" first appeared in '' The Bulletin'' magazine on 23 July 1892. It w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Union Buries Its Dead
"The Union Buries Its Dead" is a well-known sketch story by iconic Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. The story takes place in Bourke, and concerns the burial of an anonymous union labourer, who had drowned the previous day "while trying to swim some horses across a billabong of the Darling." The narrator, possibly Lawson himself, examines the level of respect the Bushfolk have for the dead, supplementing the story with his trademark dry, sardonic humour. Plot summary The story opens with the unnamed narrator and his party, boating on the Darling River, coming across a young man on horseback driving some horses along the bank. The young man asks if the water is too deep to cross, to which a joker in the party replies that it is deep enough to drown him. The young man continues up the river. The following day, a funeral gathers at a corner pub, the deceased being the young horsemen encountered the previous day. The anonymous man is a union member, however, little more is kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bush Undertaker
"The Bush Undertaker" is a short story by Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. Along with "The Drover's Wife", "The Bush Undertaker" is one of Lawson's first sketches, and is among the stories for which he first gained attention as an accomplished writer. The story concerns an eccentric old man, who lives alone with only his dog for company, and his discovery and treatment of a friend's deceased body. Plot summary The sketch begins with old man preparing dinner for himself and his beloved dog, Five Bob. Dinner consumed, the man gathers a pick and shovel and travels to a "blackfellow's grave about which he was curious." He digs up the bones, places them in a bag, and starts for home. He discovers the body of a man, parched by the intense Australian sun. After close examination, the deceased man is determined to be a friend of the old man, an alcoholic named Brummy. The old man, somewhat ingeniously, devises a way of carrying Brummy back home, but he is startled by numerous larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brummy Hewson
Brummy Hewson also known as Brummy Hughson or Brummy Usen is a recurring fictional character in the works of writer and bush poet, Australia's Henry Lawson. Brummy is described as a swagman or bush traveller. In the story ''Bush Undertaker'' he is described as a good worker, yet had ''wasted his money on alcohol'', although much about his identity is wrapped by Lawson in myth and subterfuge. Elsewhere he is called a bushranger. Indeed, in the book ''While the Billy Boils'' a tale of Brummy is recounted by a nameless swagman A swagman (also called a swaggie, sundowner or tussocker) was a transient labourer who travelled by foot from farm to farm carrying his belongings in a swag. The term originated in Australia in the 19th century and was later used in New Zeala ..., when the reader is left with the feeling that the nameless swagman telling his tale may actually be the supposedly deceased Hewson. Brummy Hewson may have been based on John "Brummy" Hewson, a claims minder and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
