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- The Shearersi"No church-bell rings them from the Track,", single work poetry (p. ix-x)
- Send Round the Hat, single work short story humour (p. [1]- 21)
- 'G.S.' or The Fourth Cooki"He has notions of Australia from the tales that he's been told-", single work poetry (p. 22-23)
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That Pretty Girl in the Army,
single work
short story
The hard men of Bourke are drawn to the pretty young Salvation Army girl who moves to their town. They are surprised by her reaction to Jack Moonlight, a swagman, who turns out to be her former lover.
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Lord Douglas,
single work
short story
'Lord Douglas' is unpopular in Bourke, where his aristocratic ways bring him into conflict with the union men. However the same union men care for his wife and children when he is jailed for two years, and even take up a collection when he is released.
- Jack Cornstalki"I met with Jack Cornstalk in London to-day,", single work poetry humour (p. 60)
- The Blindness of One-Eyed Bogan, single work short story humour (p. 61-71)
- Sacred to the Memory of `Unknown'i"Oh, the wild black swans fly westward still,", single work poetry (p. 72-73)
- Two Sundowners, single work short story humour (p. 74-85)
- A Sketch of Mateship, single work short story (p. 86-87)
- A Bush Publican's Lament, single work short story humour (p. 88-91)
- The Bulletin Hoteli"I was drifting in the drizzle past the Cecil in the Strand -", single work poetry (p. 92-93)
- On the Tucker Track : A Steelman Story, single work short story humour (p. 94-98)
- The Ballad of the Rouseabouti"A rouseabout of rouseabouts, from any land - or none -", single work short story (p. 99-102)
- The Shearer's Dream, single work short story (p. 103-107)
- The Lost Soul's Hotel, single work short story (p. 108-120)
- The Boozers' Home, single work short story (p. 121-126)
- The Sex Problem Again, single work short story (p. 127-132)
- The Things We Dare Not Telli"The fields are fair in autumn yet, and the sun's still shining there,", single work poetry (p. 133-134)
- The Romance of the Swag, single work short story (p. 135-141)
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Works about this Work
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The Making of a Legend : Henry Lawson at Bourke
2017
single work
biography
— Appears in: The La Trobe Journal , March no. 99 2017; (p. 35-49) '‘If you know Bourke, you know Australia’, Henry Lawson wrote to Edward Garnett in February 1902, a few months before returning to Australia from England. He explained to Garnett that his new collection of stories, which he hen called ‘The Heart of Australia’, was ‘centred at Bourke and all the Union leaders are in it'. (When published later that year it was entitled Children of he Bush – a title probably chosen by the London publisher.) A decade after e had been there, Lawson was revisiting in memory a place that had had a profound influence on him. It is no exaggeration to say that his one and only stay in what he and other Australians called the ‘Out Back’ was crucial to his envelopment as a prose writer. Without the months that he spent in the northest of New South Wales, it is unlikely that he would ever have achieved the legendary status that he did as an interpreter of ‘the real Australia’.' (Introduction) -
"A Man Apart :" The Unwritten Tragedy of Henry Lawson
2016
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia , vol. 7 no. 1 2016;' When Henry Lawson died in 1922, he was publicly honoured as a "national writer," but for the last twenty years of his life he had been a "derelict artist," caught in a cycle of poverty, alcoholism and depression, humiliated, frustrated, often ashamed of the work that he was producing and haunted by the sense of the writer that he might have been. Almost a century later, there is no biography that adequately portrays the man and the circumstances that contributed to his collapse. Underlying this article, which considers aspects of his struggle to realize his literary ambitions, is the assumption that because Lawson's work has such a strong autobiographical element, the way in which his life is read inevitably colours how his writing is read. Until there is a biography in which the tragic dimension of his life is fully recognized, our understanding of Lawson's literary achievement remains incomplete.' (Publication abstract)
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The Jolly Swagman
2007
single work
column
— Appears in: Ozwords , October vol. 16 no. 1 2007; (p. 6) -
Untitled
1902
single work
review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 20 December 1902; (p. 1356)
— Review of Children of the Bush 1902 selected work short story poetry prose ; A Book of Sonnets 1902 selected work poetry -
Henry Lawson
1902
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 30 October vol. 23 no. 1185 1902; (p. 2)
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Untitled
1902
single work
review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 20 December 1902; (p. 1356)
— Review of Children of the Bush 1902 selected work short story poetry prose ; A Book of Sonnets 1902 selected work poetry -
Henry Lawson
1902
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 30 October vol. 23 no. 1185 1902; (p. 2) -
The Jolly Swagman
2007
single work
column
— Appears in: Ozwords , October vol. 16 no. 1 2007; (p. 6) -
"A Man Apart :" The Unwritten Tragedy of Henry Lawson
2016
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia , vol. 7 no. 1 2016;' When Henry Lawson died in 1922, he was publicly honoured as a "national writer," but for the last twenty years of his life he had been a "derelict artist," caught in a cycle of poverty, alcoholism and depression, humiliated, frustrated, often ashamed of the work that he was producing and haunted by the sense of the writer that he might have been. Almost a century later, there is no biography that adequately portrays the man and the circumstances that contributed to his collapse. Underlying this article, which considers aspects of his struggle to realize his literary ambitions, is the assumption that because Lawson's work has such a strong autobiographical element, the way in which his life is read inevitably colours how his writing is read. Until there is a biography in which the tragic dimension of his life is fully recognized, our understanding of Lawson's literary achievement remains incomplete.' (Publication abstract)
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The Making of a Legend : Henry Lawson at Bourke
2017
single work
biography
— Appears in: The La Trobe Journal , March no. 99 2017; (p. 35-49) '‘If you know Bourke, you know Australia’, Henry Lawson wrote to Edward Garnett in February 1902, a few months before returning to Australia from England. He explained to Garnett that his new collection of stories, which he hen called ‘The Heart of Australia’, was ‘centred at Bourke and all the Union leaders are in it'. (When published later that year it was entitled Children of he Bush – a title probably chosen by the London publisher.) A decade after e had been there, Lawson was revisiting in memory a place that had had a profound influence on him. It is no exaggeration to say that his one and only stay in what he and other Australians called the ‘Out Back’ was crucial to his envelopment as a prose writer. Without the months that he spent in the northest of New South Wales, it is unlikely that he would ever have achieved the legendary status that he did as an interpreter of ‘the real Australia’.' (Introduction)