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The Romance of the Swag single work   short story  
  • Author:agent Henry Lawson http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/lawson-henry
Issue Details: First known date: 1902... 1902 The Romance of the Swag
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Notes

  • Described as a prose story in Mackaness, An Annotated Bibliography of Henry Lawson (1951).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Children of the Bush Henry Lawson , London : Methuen , 1902 Z1312501 1902 selected work short story poetry prose London : Methuen , 1902 pg. 135-141
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Romance of the Swag Henry Lawson , Melbourne : E. W. Cole , 1907 Z1846504 1907 selected work short story prose Reprint of the second part of Children of the Bush (1902). According to Colin Roderick 'Latter-day corruptions crept in when Lawson's publisher emended the texts in 1924 to fit the stories into two volumes in the Platypus Series' (Henry Lawson: Short Stories and Sketches 1888-1922, p. xviii) Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1907 pg. 123-129
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Romance of the Swag Henry Lawson , Sydney : Australian Limited Editions Society , 1939 Z1313926 1939 selected work short story prose Sydney : Australian Limited Editions Society , 1939 pg. 15-22
    • San Francisco, California,
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,      :       Book Club of California ,       1942 .
      Printed by Windsor Press
      Extent: [iv], 12, [2] p.p.
      Limited edition info: Limited edition of 550 copies.
      Description: illus. (1 col.)
      Note/s:
      • Foreword by James Johnson.
      • Includes glossary.
      Series: y separately published work icon Guardians of the Pacific Book Club of California , 1942 Z1313821 1942 series - publisher 'A series of six pamphlets to be issued to its members by the Book Cub of California ... Each pamphlet will relate to one of the countries of the Pacific area allied with the United States in World War II, and its text will present a short prose work characteristic of the literature and national spirit of its people. Each part of the series will be designed and printed by a different Californian printer and will be limited to 550 copies' (qtd. in George Mackaness An Annotated Bibliography of Henry Lawson 1951). Number in series: 1
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Prose Works of Henry Lawson Collected Short Stories of Henry Lawson Henry Lawson , Sydney : Home Entertainment Library , 1935 Z389778 1935 selected work short story Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1982 pg. 473-476
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon A Fantasy of Man : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1901-1922 Henry Lawson , Leonard Cronin (editor), Sydney : Lansdowne , 1984 Z378760 1984 selected work poetry short story autobiography correspondence humour Sydney : Lansdowne , 1984 pg. 65-68
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Henry Lawson Recollections : A Selection of Autobiographical Works Henry Lawson , Leonard Cronin (editor), Frenchs Forest : Reed , 1987 Z114119 1987 selected work autobiography short story criticism biography prose Frenchs Forest : Reed , 1987 pg. 86-91
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Henry Lawson's Mates : The Complete Stories of Henry Lawson Henry Lawson , Windsor : Budget Books Lloyd O'Neil , 1979 Z487806 1979 selected work short story autobiography humour Ringwood : Viking O'Neil , 1987 pg. 585-590
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Romance of the Swag Henry Lawson , Melbourne : E. W. Cole , 1907 Z1846504 1907 selected work short story prose Reprint of the second part of Children of the Bush (1902). According to Colin Roderick 'Latter-day corruptions crept in when Lawson's publisher emended the texts in 1924 to fit the stories into two volumes in the Platypus Series' (Henry Lawson: Short Stories and Sketches 1888-1922, p. xviii) Project Gutenberg Australia , 2006
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Penguin Book of Australian Bush Writing John Ross (editor), Camberwell : Viking , 2011 Z1834253 2011 anthology poetry short story autobiography prose extract non-fiction

    'A selection of our finest writing about the mystery and majesty of the Australian bush.

    'Since settlers and explorers first started recording their experiences of the Australian bush, is has loomed as large in our imaginations as in our landscapes. Sometimes dark and forbidding, sometimes lush and beautiful, this terrain and the people who venture into it fascinate us and draw us in. The exploration of our forests and outback is the source of some of our favourite stories.

    'In The Penguin Book of Australian Bush Writing, prolific writer and editor John Ross has collected tales about the bush from all over our wide land. Richard Flanagan pays homage to the "golden wood" industry of Huon pine in Tasmania, Henry Lawson journeys by train from Sydney to Bourke, A.B. Facey works the land on Western Australian frontier, and Miles Franklin describes the menace of the fauna in the countryside of her childhood.' (From the publisher's website.)

         Camberwell : Viking , 2011     pg. 5-11
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian 2 January 2012 Z1834189 2012 newspaper issue Includes an extract from Henry Lawson's The Romance of the Swag, p.10 2012 pg. 10
    Note: With title: Heart of the Man in the Heart of His Swag
Notes:
This version of 'The Romance of the Swag' begins differently and varies textually from earlier versions of the story. According to Colin Roderick 'Latter-day corruptions crept in when Lawson's publisher emended the texts [of Children of the Bush] in 1924 to fit the stories into two volumes in the Platypus Series' (Henry Lawson: Short Stories and Sketches 1888-1922, p. xviii).
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Romance of the Swag Henry Lawson , Melbourne : E. W. Cole , 1907 Z1846504 1907 selected work short story prose Reprint of the second part of Children of the Bush (1902). According to Colin Roderick 'Latter-day corruptions crept in when Lawson's publisher emended the texts in 1924 to fit the stories into two volumes in the Platypus Series' (Henry Lawson: Short Stories and Sketches 1888-1922, p. xviii) Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1924 pg. 1-10
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Romance of the Swag Henry Lawson , Melbourne : E. W. Cole , 1907 Z1846504 1907 selected work short story prose Reprint of the second part of Children of the Bush (1902). According to Colin Roderick 'Latter-day corruptions crept in when Lawson's publisher emended the texts in 1924 to fit the stories into two volumes in the Platypus Series' (Henry Lawson: Short Stories and Sketches 1888-1922, p. xviii) Sydney : University of Sydney Library, Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service , 2001
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