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* Contents derived from the
Frenchs Forest,
Killarney Heights - Frenchs Forest area,
Sydney Northeastern Suburbs,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Reed
, 1987 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Henry Lawson Recollections : A Selection of Autobiographical Works : Introduction, single work criticism biography (p. 7-10)
- A Fragment of Autobiography, single work autobiography (p. 11-33)
- Grandfather's Courtship, single work short story (p. 33-52)
- Table Legs, Wooden Heads and a Woman's Heart, single work short story biography (p. 52-57)
-
An Old Mate of Your Father's,
single work
short story
The narrator remembers how his father would be visited by old mates and how they sit together talking about their days on the Ballarat and Bendigo goldfields.
- Drought-Stricken, single work short story autobiography (p. 61-65)
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In a Dry Season,
single work
short story
Lawson describes the scenes observed as a train traveller to western N.S.W.
- Crawlalong , single work short story humour (p. 69-70)
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A Rough Shed,
single work
short story
A rouseabout describes the routines and privations of his life in outback shearing sheds.
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Stragglers,
single work
short story
Description of a group of swagmen and travellers camped in the shearers' shed of a remote sheep station on New Year's Eve.
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The Darling River,
single work
short story
humour
Lawson describes the oddities of travel by river boat on the Darling River. He also explains how Bourke came to acquire the reputation of being the most drunken town on the Darling.
- The Romance of the Swag, single work short story (p. 86-91)
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Hungerford,
single work
short story
humour
Lawson writes about the remote town of Hungerford, which straddles the N.S.W. and Queensland border. Lawson's story is derived from his visit to Hungerford in January 1893, when he and James Gordon (and possibly Ernest de Guinney) walked there from Torale shearing shed, near Bourke.
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In a Wet Season,
single work
short story
Lawson describes a dismal train journey through the flooded outback.
- Crime in the Bush, single work essay (p. 97-101)
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The Union Buries Its Dead,
single work
short story
humour
Describes a bush funeral.
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For Auld Lang Syne,
single work
short story
The narrator senses the beginning of the end of old times as one of his mates, a carpenter, sets off for New Zealand to seek employment. The narrator feels that his mate is only the first of their 'push' of ten to leave New South Wales.
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Coming Across : A Study in the Steerage,
single work
short story
Lawson describes travelling steerage to New Zealand on a ship carrying ill-informed migrants, hard-drinking New Zealand shearers, and optimistic Australians.
- New Zealand from an Australian's Point of View, single work prose travel (p. 118-121)
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Across the Straits,
single work
short story
Lawson writes about the perils and inadequacies of sea travel in the Antipodes, and the painful experience of losing a half-sovereign.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Old Australia Through Loving Eyes
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 10 September 1988; (p. 9)
— Review of Henry Lawson Recollections : A Selection of Autobiographical Works 1987 selected work autobiography short story criticism biography prose
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Old Australia Through Loving Eyes
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 10 September 1988; (p. 9)
— Review of Henry Lawson Recollections : A Selection of Autobiographical Works 1987 selected work autobiography short story criticism biography prose
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