This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1891.

Books

* Jennings Carmichael – ''Hospital Children: sketches of life and character in the Children's Hospital, Melbourne'' *

Fergus Hume Ferguson Wright Hume (8 July 1859 – 12 July 1932), known as Fergus Hume, was a prolific English novelist, known for his detective fiction, thrillers and mysteries. Early life Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire, England, the second ...

– ''Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage'' *

Hume Nisbet James Hume Nisbet (8 August 1849 – 4 June 1923) was a Scottish-born novelist and artist. Many of his thrillers are set in Australia. Youth Nisbet was born in Stirling, Scotland and received special artistic training, and was educated under the R ...

— ''The Savage Queen: A Romance of the Natives of Van Dieman's Land''

Short stories

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 '' ...

– "The Yanyilla Steeplechase" *

Louisa Lawson Louisa Lawson (née Albury) (17 February 1848 – 12 August 1920) was an Australian poet, writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist. She was the mother of the poet and author Henry Lawson. Early life Louisa Albury was born on 17 February 1 ...

– "A Bush Experience" *

A. B. Paterson Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, (17 February 18645 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the d ...

** " The Cast-Iron Canvasser" ** "His Masterpiece" *

Rosa Praed Rosa Campbell Praed (; 26 March 1851 – 10 April 1935), often credited as Mrs. Campbell Praed (and also known as ''Rosa Caroline Praed''), was an Australian novelist in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her large bibliography covered multiple ...

– "The Bunyip" *

Price Warung William Astley (13 August 1855 – 5 October 1911) was an Australian short-story writer who wrote under the pseudonym "Price Warung". Astley was the second son of Captain Thomas Astley, a jeweller, and his wife Mary née Price. He was born in L ...

** "John Price's Bar of Steel" ** "The Liberation of the First Three"

Poetry

Barcroft Boake Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake (26 March 1866 – 2 May 1892) was an Australian poet. Background Born in Sydney, Boake worked as a surveyor and a boundary rider, but is best remembered for his poetry, a volume of which was published five years a ...

** " The Digger's Song" ** " On the Range" ** "

Where the Dead Men Lie "Where the Dead Men Lie" is a poem by Australian poet Barcroft Boake. It was first published in '' The Bulletin'' magazine on 19 December 1891, and later in the poet's poetry collection ''Where the Dead Men Lie, and Other Poems'' (1897). Analysi ...

" * Victor J. Daley – "

Lachesis Lachesis ( ; grc, Λάχεσις, Lákhesis, disposer of lots; from , 'to obtain by lot, by fate, or by the will of the gods'), in ancient Greek religion, was the second of the Three Fates, or Moirai; the others were her sisters, Clotho and A ...

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George Essex Evans George Essex Evans (18 June 1863 – 10 November 1909) was an Australian poet. Biography Essex Evans was born in London on 18 June 1863, to Welsh parents. His father, John Evans Q.C., Treasurer of the Inner Temple and a member of the House of C ...

** " An Australian Symphony" ** ''The Repentance of Magdalene Despar and Other Poems'' *

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 perio ...

** " Freedom on the Wallaby" ** " My Literary Friend" ** " The Shame of Going Back" *

– " A Dream" * Harriet Anne Patchett Martin – ''Coo-ee : Tales of Australian Life by Australian Ladies'' (edited) * J. B. O'Hara – ''Songs of the South'' *

** " An Evening in Dandaloo" ** " The Flying Gang: A Railroad Song" ** " In the Droving Days" ** " A Mountain Station" ** " The Open Steeplechase"

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1891 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death. * 13 March —

Maie Casey, Baroness Casey Ethel Marian Sumner "Maie" Casey, Baroness Casey, AC, FRSA (née Ryan; 13 March 1892 – 20 January 1983) was an Australian pioneer aviator, poet, librettist, biographer, memoirist and artist. Lord Casey was her husband. Robert Menzies famous ...

, pioneer aviator, poet, librettist, biographer, memoirist and artist (died

1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...

) * 9 April –

Lesbia Harford Lesbia Harford (9 April 1891 – 5 July 1927) was an Australian poet, novelist and political activist. Biography Lesbia Venner Keogh was the first child of Edmund Joseph Keogh and Beatrice Eleanor Moore, great-great-granddaughter of an Earl of ...

, poet (died

1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General. * January 7 * ...

)

References

{{Years in Australian literature

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Books

Short stories

Poetry

Births

See also

References