This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1896.

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 Beautiful White Devil'' ** ''Doctor Nikola'' *

Ernest Favenc Ernest Favenc (21 October 1845 – 14 November 1908) was an explorer of Australia, a journalist, author of verse, novels and short stories, and an historian. Personal life Favenc was born in Walworth, Surrey, England. Of Huguenot descent, he ...

– ''The Moccasins of Silence'' *

E. W. Hornung Ernest William Hornung (7 June 1866 – 22 March 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles (character), A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung was educa ...

– ''The Rogue's March: A Romance'' *

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 ...

– ''The Expedition of Captain Flick'' *

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 World is Round'' *

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 Little Larrikin''

Short stories

Barbara Baynton Barbara Janet Baynton (née Lawrence; 4 June 1857 – 28 May 1929) was an Australian writer known primarily for her short stories about life in the bush. She published the collection '' Bush Studies'' (1902) and the novel ''Human Toll'' (1907), ...

– "The Tramp" (aka "

The Chosen Vessel "The Chosen Vessel" is a dramatic short story by the Australian writer Barbara Baynton, first published in ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin'' on 12 December 1896. It recounts the story of an outback woman left alone with her ...

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Ada Cambridge Ada Cambridge (21 November 1844 – 19 July 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was an English-born Australian writer. She wrote more than 25 works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.Cato (1989) p. v Many of her nov ...

– "The Wind of Destiny" *

Albert Dorrington Albert Dorrington (27 September 1874 – 9 April 1953) was an English writer, active in Australia, who was born in Fulham, London, England. Life Dorrington arrived in Australia around 1890 as a sixteen-year-old and after brief stays in Melb ...

– "A Bush Tanqueray" *

Edward Dyson Edward George Dyson (4 March 1865 – 22 August 1931), or 'Ted' Dyson, was an Australian journalist, poet, playwright and short story writer. He was the elder brother of illustrators Will Dyson (1880–1938) and Ambrose Dyson (1876–1913), wi ...

** "Court Day at Billybilly" ** "The Elopement of Mrs Peters" ** "Spicer's Courtship" *

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 ...

** "Black Joe" ** "The Geological Spieler" ** ''

While the Billy Boils ''While the Billy Boils'' is a 1921 Australian film from director Beaumont Smith which adapts several stories from Henry Lawson. It is considered a lost film. Plot Bob Brothers ( Tal Ordell) is a bushman who quarrelled with his father ten year ...

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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 ...

– "What the Frogs Said" * K. Langloh Parker – ''

Australian Legendary Tales ''Australian Legendary Tales'' is a translated collection of stories told to K. Langloh Parker by Australian Aboriginal people. The book was immediately popular, being revised or reissued several times since its first publication in 1896, an ...

'' (edited) * A. B. Paterson – "White-When-He's-Wanted" *

Steele Rudd Steele Rudd was the pen name of Arthur Hoey Davis (14 November 1868 – 11 October 1935) an Australian author, best known for his short story collection ''On Our Selection''. In 2009, as part of the Q150 celebrations, Rudd was named one of the ...

– "Dad and the Two Donovans" * Charles Henry Souter – "A Martyr of No Account" *

– ''The Little Duchess and Other Stories''

Poetry

Christopher Brennan Christopher John Brennan (1 November 1870 – 5 October 1932) was an Australian poet, scholar and literary critic. Biography Brennan was born in Haymarket, an inner suburb of Sydney, to Christopher Brennan (d. 1919), a brewer, and his wife Ma ...

– " Towards the Source : 1894-97 : I : 10" (aka "The Yellow Gas") * Victor J. Daley – "

Day and Night Day and Night and its variants may refer to: Books *''Day and Night'', poems 1924-1934 by New Zealand poet Ursula Bethell *''Day and Night'', children's book by Teddy Newton based on Pixar's '' Day & Night'' *''Day and Night'', children's book by ...

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** " Peter Simson's Farm" ** ''

Rhymes from the Mines and Other Lines ''Rhymes From the Mines and Other Lines'' (1896) was the first collection of poems by Australian poet Edward Dyson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson Angus & Robertson (A&R) is a major Australian bookseller, publisher and pr ...

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– " The Watchers" *

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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 p ...

'' ** " Past Carin'" ** " The Star of Australasia" * A. B. Paterson ** "

Hay and Hell and Booligal Hay and Hell and Booligal is a poem by the Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson, A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson who wrote the poem while working as a solicitor with the firm of Street & Paterson in Sydney. It was first published in ''The Bulletin (Austra ...

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Mulga Bill's Bicycle "Mulga Bill's Bicycle" is a poem written in 1896 by Banjo Paterson. It was originally published on the 25th of July 1896 edition of the ''Sydney Mail'', and later appeared in the poet's second poetry collection ''Rio Grande's Last Race and Other ...

" ** " Pioneers" ** " Rio Grande's Last Race" ** " Song of the Artesian Water" * J. Le Gay Brereton – '' The Song of Brotherhood, and Other Verses''

Biography

Henry Parkes Sir Henry Parkes, (27 May 1815 – 27 April 1896) was a colonial Australian politician and longest non-consecutive Premier of the Colony of New South Wales, the present-day state of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia. He has ...

– ''An Emigrant's Home Letters''

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1896 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death. * 20 March – Cecil Mann, editor and critic (died 1967) * 3 April – Ronald Campbell, novelist and short story writer (died 1970) * 28 September – Edward Harrington, poet (died 1966) * 16 November –

Joan Lindsay Joan à Beckett Weigall, Lady Lindsay (16 November 189623 December 1984) was an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and visual artist. Trained in her youth as a painter, she published her first literary work in 1936 at age forty under a ...

, novelist (died 1984)

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 1896 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth. * 27 April –

, poet and politician (born 1815) * 27 December – Henry Clay, poet (born 1844)

References

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