This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1897.

Books

Guy Boothby Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 – 26 February 1905) was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. He is best known fo ...

** ''The Fascination of the King'' ** '' The Lust of Hate'' ** ''A Prince of Swindlers'' ** ''Sheilah McLeod: A Heroine of the Back Blocks'' * Mary Gaunt – ''

Kirkham's Find ''Kirkham's Find'' (1897) is a novel by Australian writer Mary Gaunt. Story outline Phoebe and Nancy Marsden are sisters living a comfortable existence with their family in rural Victoria. Phoebe is the practical sister, interested in helpin ...

'' *

Louise Mack Marie Louise Hamilton Mack (10 October 1870 – 23 November 1935) was an Australian poet, journalist and novelist. She is most known for her writings and her involvement in World War I in 1914 as the first woman war correspondent in Belgium. Bi ...

– ''Teens: A Story of Australian School Girls'' *

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 ...

– ''Nulma'' * Roderic Quinn – ''Mostyn Stayne''

Short stories

* Louis Becke – ''Pacific Tales'' *

– "With Three Phantoms" * Ada Cambridge – ''At Midnight and Other Stories'' * Henry Lawson ** "Mr Smellingscheck" ** "Two Larrikins" *

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 ...

– "Bill and Jim Nearly Get Taken Down" * Steele Rudd ** "Dave's Snake-Bite" ** "Jack or Cranky Jack" ** "A Kangaroo Hunt from Shingle Hut" ** "The Parson and the Scone"

Poetry

* Barcroft Boake – ''

Where the Dead Men Lie, and Other Poems ''Where the Dead Men Lie, and Other Poems'' (1897) is the first and only collection of poems by Australian poet Barcroft Boake. Edited by A. G. Stephens, it was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1897, five years after the poet's deat ...

'' *

E. J. Brady Edwin James Brady (7 August 1869 – 22 July 1952) was an Australian journalist and poet. Personal life From Irish parents, Brady was born at Carcoar, New South Wales, and was educated both in the United States and Sydney, Australia. Among his ...

– " The Whaler's Pig" * Christopher Brennan – ''XXI Poems 1893-1897: Towards the Source'' * Victor J. Daley – " A Treat for the London Poor" * J. Le Gay Brereton – ''Sweetheart Mine: Lyrics of Love and Friendship'' * John Farrell – " Australia to England" *

W. T. Goodge William Thomas Goodge (28 September 1862 – 28 November 1909) was an English writer and journalist, who arrived in Australia in 1882, after jumping ship in Sydney. He worked in various jobs in New South Wales, including as a coal-miner, until ...

** "

The Great Australian Adjective ''The Great Australian Adjective'' is a humorous poem by English writer and poet W. T. Goodge. It was first published in '' The Bulletin'' magazine on 11 December 1897, the Christmas issue of that publication, and later in the poet's only collecti ...

" ** " The Oozlum Bird" * Henry Lawson ** " The Lights of Cobb and Co." ** " The Old Bark School" * Ethel Mills – "The Brumby's Death" *

Breaker Morant Harry "The Breaker" Harbord Morant (born Edwin Henry Murrant, 9 December 1864 – 27 February 1902), more popularly known as Breaker Morant, was an Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, bush poet, military officer, and war criminal who was co ...

– " Who's Riding Old Harlequin Now?" *

Will H. Ogilvie Will H. Ogilvie (21 August 1869 – 30 January 1963) was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman, jackaroo, and drover, and described as a quiet-spoken handsome Scot of medium height, with a fair moustache and red complexion. He ...

** " Off the Grass" ** " The Stockyard Liar" *

** " The Ballad of the Calliope" ** " By the Grey Gulf-water" ** "

Saltbush Bill's Second Fight ''Saltbush Bill's Second Fight'' is a humorous poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson. It was first published in ''The Antipodean'' in 1897. Saltbush Bill was one of Paterson's best known characters who appeared in 5 ...

" * Charles Thatcher – "Look Out Below!" *

Ethel Turner Ethel Turner (24 January 1870 – 8 April 1958) was an English-born Australian novelist and children's literature writer. Life She was born Ethel Mary Burwell in Doncaster in England. Her father died when she was two, leaving her mother Sarah J ...

– "Orphaned by the Sea" *

Dora Wilcox Dora Wilcox (born Mary Theodora Wilcox, 24 November 1873 – 14 December 1953), was a New Zealand and Australian poet and playwright. Biography Wilcox was born in Christchurch, New Zealand to William Henry Wilcox and his wife Mary Elizabeth, né ...

– "After the Floods"

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1897 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death. * 10 January –

Margaret Fane Margaret Fane (born Beatrice Florence Osborn, 10 January 1887 – 1962) was an Australian novelist and poet. Her short stories were published in the '' Sydney Mail'' and the ''Sydney Morning Herald,'' and she co-wrote ''The Happy Vagabond'' with ...

, novelist and poet (died

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...

) * 23 February – J. M. Walsh novelist (died

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

) * 16 March – Flora Eldershaw, novelist (died

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...

) * 9 April –

Dale Collins Cuthbert Quinlan Dale Collins (9 April 1897 – 3 March 1956) was an Australian journalist and author of popular fiction. He is notable for a series of sea romances written in the 1920s and 1930s, some of which were adapted for motion pictures, ...

, journalist and novelist (died

) * 16 August – Marjorie Barnard, novelist (died

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

) Unknown date * Winifred Birkett, novelist and poet (died

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

)

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by

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) of deaths in 1897 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth. * 22 December – William Gay, poet (born 1865 in Australian literature)

References

{{Years in Australian literature

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