This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1914.

Novels

* Mary Grant Bruce — ''Gray's Hollow'' * Ada Cambridge — ''The Making of Rachel Rowe'' * Edward Dyson — ''Loves of Lancelot'' * Mabel Forrest — ''A Bachelor's Wife'' *

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 ...

— ''The House of Daffodils'' * Dorothea Mackellar & Ruth M. Bedford — ''Two's Company'' * Ambrose Pratt ** ''Her Assigned Husband'' ** ''War in the Pacific'' *

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 ...

— ''The Girl from the Back-Blocks'' * E. L. Grant Watson — ''Where Bonds are Loosed''

Short stories

* Robert Brothers — "Wharf Labourers" * Edward Dyson — ''Spat's Fact'ry: More Fact'ry 'Ands'' *

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 ...

— ''The Honour of the Station''

Poetry

Emily Coungeau Emily Coungeau (3 May 1860 – 26 July 1936) was an English-born Australian poet. Biography Although only starting to write poetry after the age of 50, Coungeau was a prolific writer whose work was widely published in Australian newspapers, an ...

— ''Stella Australis: Poems and Verses and Prose Fragments'' * James Lister Cuthbertson — "The Bush" * C. J. Dennis ** " Mar" ** " The Play" * Mabel Forrest — " The Heroes" * Henry Lawson ** "Dawgs of War" ** "A Fantasy of War" *

Will Lawson Will Lawson (2 September 1876 – 13 October 1957), born in Durham, England, was a popular bush poet, novelist, journalist and historian of Australia. Many of his works had sailing or stage coach themes. Early life Born at Gateshead, Durh ...

— ''The Three Kings and Other Verses'' * Dorothy Francis McCrae — ''Soldier, My Soldier!'' * Hugh McCrae — "June Morning" * Dorothea Mackellar — ''The Witch-Maid 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 Eyes of Little Charlotte" ** ''Green Days and Cherries: the early verses of Shaw Neilson'' ** " O Lady of the Dazzling Flowers" *

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 Road to Hogan's Gap" ** " Song of the Wheat" ** " Sunrise on the Coast"

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1914 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death. * 6 February — Donald Friend, artist and diarist (died

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...

) * 23 February – Pat Flower, playwright, television scriptwriter and crime novelist (died

1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...

) * 27 October —

Margaret Trist Margaret Trist (27 October 1914 – 2 March 1986) was an acclaimed Australian novelist and short story writer. Early life and education Margaret Bethesda Trist was the daughter of Olga Hargreaves Lucas, no father's name being registered on h ...

, novelist and short story writer (died

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...

) * 4 November — Peter Cowan, novelist (died

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

) * 1 December — David McNicoll, poet (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 ...

) * 23 December — Clement Semmler, critic (died

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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 1914 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth. * 13 January — John Philip Bourke, poet (born

1860 Events January–March * January 2 – The discovery of a hypothetical planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France. * January 10 – The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusett ...

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