This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1911.

Books

* Edward Dyson – ''Tommy the Hawker and Snifter his Boy'' *

Sumner Locke Helena Sumner Locke (4 July 1881 – 18 October 1917) was an Australian novelist, dramatist/playwright, poet and short story writer. Her sister was the socialist Lilian Locke. Early life Born in 1881, she was the sixth daughter of Anglican cle ...

– '' Mum Dawson, 'Boss' '' * Ambrose Pratt ** ''Dan Kelly, Outlaw'' ** ''The Outlaws of Weddin Range'' *

Louis Stone Louis Stone (21 October 1871 – 23 September 1935) was an Australian novelist and playwright. Early life Stone was born in Leicester, England, baptized as William Lewis, son of William Stone, a basketmaker, and his wife Emma, ''née'' Tewk ...

– '' Jonah'' * Steele Rudd – ''The Book of Dan'' *

Lilian Turner Lilian Turner (21 August 1867 – 25 August 1956) was an Australian writer. Biography Lilian Wattnall Burwell was born 21 August 1867. She was the elder sister of Ethel Turner and the daughter of Bennett George and Sarah Jane Burwell. Bennett G ...

– ''April Girls''

Short stories

* Randolph Bedford – ''Billy Pagan, Mining Engineer'' * Edward Dyson ** ''Benno and Some of the Push: Being Further 'Fact'ry 'Ands' Stories'' ** ''The Golden Shanty'' * Norman Lindsay – "Fatty Bennet" * Thomas Edward Spencer – ''That Droll Lady: Being Further Adventures of Mrs. Bridget McSweeney''

Poetry

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 ...

– ''Bells and Hobbles'' * Christopher Brennan – "The Wanderer: 1902- : 95" * Victor J. Daley ** "A Ballad of Eureka" ** ''Wine and Roses'' *

C.J. Dennis Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis (7 September 1876 – 22 June 1938), better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet and journalist known for his best-selling verse novel ''The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke'' (1915). Alongside ...

– "The Intro" *

Ella McFadyen Ella May McFadyen (26 November 1887 – 22 August 1976) was an Australian poet, journalist and children's writer. For 18 years she conducted "The Children's Page" for ''The Sydney Mail'' and was known as Cinderella. Early life and education Mc ...

– ''Outland Born and Other Verses'' * Dorothea Mackellar – ''The Closed Door and Other Verses'' *

John Shaw Neilson John Shaw Neilson was an Australian poet. Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Mel ...

** " The Green Singer" ** "

Love's Coming ''Love's Coming'' ( th, ใช่รักหรือเปล่า) is a 2014 LGBT Thai film, starring Suttinut Uengtrakul and Norrapat Sakulsong. The movie's director is Naphat Chaithiangthum. The film was filmed in 2013 and was released on ...

" ** " To a Blue Flower" * Marie E.J. Pitt – ''The Horses of the Hills and Other Verses''

Children's and young adults

– ''Tom Pagdin, Pirate'' * Mary Grant Bruce – ''Mates at Billabong'' *

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 ...

– ''The Apple of Happiness''

Drama

* Edmund Duggan – '' My Mate, or a Bush Love Story'' * Louis Esson – ''Three Short Plays''

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1911 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death. * 16 February –

Hal Porter Harold Edward "Hal" Porter (16 February 1911 – 29 September 1984) was an Australian novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer. Biography Porter was born in Albert Park, Victoria, grew up in Bairnsdale, and worked as a journalist, te ...

, poet and short story writer (died

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...

) * 1 March – Ian Mudie, poet (died

1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...

) * 8 March –

Eunice Hanger Eunice Hanger (8 March 1911 – 16 October 1972) was an Australian playwright and educator. Early life and education Eunice Hanger was born at Mount Chalmers, Queensland, Mount Chalmers in Queensland on 8 March 1911 to parents Thomas Hanger ...

, playwright and educator (died

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...

) * 21 July –

Cecily Crozier Cecily Medland Crozier (21 July 1911, Elsternwick – 2006, Adelaide) was an artist, poet and literary editor who co-founded ''aCOMMENT'', an avant-garde literary magazine in Melbourne. Biography Crozier was born in Elsternwick, on 21 July 191 ...

, artist, poet and literary editor who co-founded ''A Comment'' (died

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

) * 27 July – Colin Roderick, editor and critic (died

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

) * 29 July – Judah Waten, novelist (died

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

) * 3 October — George Farwell, novelist (died

) * 28 October – Clem Christesen, poet and literary editor (died

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

) * 23 November – William Hart-Smith, poet (died

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

) * 31 December – Dal Stivens, novelist (died

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

)

Deaths

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

surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...

) of deaths in 1911 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth. * 6 May – Thomas Edward Spencer, poet (born 1845) * 5 October –

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 ...

, short story writer (born

1855 Events January–March * January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city. * January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins his third term as President of Peru. * January 23 ** The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens ...

) Unknown date: * John Arthur Barry — short story writer (born 1850, Devon UK) * Mary Fortune — poet, crime fiction and short story writer (born 1833)

References

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