AustLit

The association 'aimed ... to foster the recognition, study and teaching of English language and literature' (Oxford Companion to Australian Literature). In 1944 its name changed to the English Association (Sydney Branch). Since 1949 it has had the extra aim of promoting the study of Australian literature, but many of its early public lectures and meetings did in fact focus on Australian literature and writers. These addresses and essays were published in The Union Recorder and offprintes as a series of pamphlets. The Association has also sponsored the journals Southerly and Sydney Studies in English