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Female Immigration Considered

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Female Immigration Considered, published in 1842, recounts Caroline Chisholm’s first years of activity in the Female Immigrants ��è��Ƶ. The aim of her work was to draw public attention towards and effect change in what Chisholm saw as the ‘evils’ of an immigration system that abandoned its subjects.

Saltbush Bill, J.P. and Other Verses

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Saltbush Bill J.P. and Other Verses was published in 1917 and contains the national song "Waltzing Matilda", as well as "Saltbush Bill, J.P." and "A Dream of the Melbourne Cup". A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson (1864-1941) was born near Orange in New South Wales and achieved fame as a short story, ballad and legend writer, drawing on his experiences growing up near Yass. He is the major folk poet of Australian literature, publishing many books of verse, short stories and two novels.

Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales in the Year 1813

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Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains in New South Wales in the Year 1813 was first published in 1823. It is a romantic and descriptive narrative of the journey to find a path across the Blue Mountains and received a great reception both in England and in Australia.

Over the Sliprails

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After Lawson's return to Sydney from Western Australia and New Zealand, Angus and Robertson published Over the Sliprails in conjunction with another collection of prose, On the Tracks. This melange of new and previously published material reveals Lawson's astounding ability to portray Australian rural life during the colonial period.

The Life of Quong Tart

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Quong Tart (Mei Guangda, 1850-1903) was born in Guangdong province and migrated with his uncle to Australia in 1859. After working on the goldfields he established a tea trading business and opened a chain of tea rooms in Sydney. He became the leading merchant and trader with China in 19th century Australia, and also a local community leader and philanthropist with established connections with political and social elites. He was a well-known and respected figure despite anti-Chinese attitudes and there was widespread shock when he was attacked and robbed in his Queen Victoria Building rooms. In 1886 Quong Tart married Margaret Scarlett who compiled, edited and composed the biographical account of his life in The Life of Quong Tart originally published in 1911.

The Incredible Journey

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Martin's novels include An Australian Girl (1890) and The Silent Sea (1892). The Incredible Journey, her last novel, published in 1923, is the story of two aboriginal women through desert country to retrieve a little boy kidnapped by a white man. Catherine Edith Macauley Martin (1847-1937) was born in Scotland and arrived with her family in Adelaide in 1855. From around 1868 she published poetry and verse translations in newspapers. In 1874 she published her first collection in The Explorers and Other Poems.

Spinifex and Sand

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Spinifex and Sand is Carnegie's celebrated journal of exploration following several years' expeditions through the most inhospitable regions of the continent. David W. Carnegie (1871-1900), was the son of the Earl of Suffolk, and trained as an engineer. He travelled to Coolgardie when gold was discovered in Western Australia in 1892. He subsequently prospected and explored large areas of desert Western Australia.

A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53

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A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 is an account of Clacy's visit with her brother to the Victorian goldfields. It combines detailed description with features of real dramatic interest and gives a lively impression of the times.

Here's Luck

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Published when Lower was only 27, Here's Luck was described as 'Australia's funniest book'.

Here's Another

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Here's Another was published in 1932 and consists of comic articles selected from Lower's regular newspaper contributions.

The Art of Living in Australia

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The Art of Living in Australia was first published in 1893 and urged the value of Mediterranean eating and drinking habits for the Australian way of life. Philip E. Muskett was an Australian-born medical practitioner and health reformer. Born in Collingwood in 1857, he studied medicine at universities in Melbourne, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and then practised in London before returning to Melbourne. In 1882 he took up a position at Sydney Hospital, and remained an honorary surgeon there after going into private practice. As many of his patients were children, he became interested in infant health and mortality, and particularly the role of nutrition in preventing illness. The Art of Living in Australia was his call to the Australian population to rethink all aspects of their physical life, and embrace Australia's 'Mediterranean' climate. Muskett's recommendations include ablution, bedroom ventilation, appropriate clothing for hot and cold weather, diet and exercise. Muskett particularly abhorred the eating habits which had grown from the availability of foods during early colonial times - the predominance of meat, bread and butter and tea. He encouraged increased production and consumption of vegetables, fish and seafood, salads and wine. The book contains over 300 recipes contributed by Mrs Wicken, lecturer in charge of 'domestic economy' at Sydney Technical College.

The Perversity of Human Nature

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The Perversity of Human Nature was originally published in 1887. Ada Cambridge (1844-1926) was born in England, publishing moral tales and verse prior to her marriage in 1870 and migration to Australia. Regular contributions to the Australasian and the Sydney Mail followed with serial works republished subsequently as novels. These novels were seen as mere romance fiction in contrast with nationalist writings of the 1890's but the descriptive and satirical qualities of her writings have lately been more positively assessed.

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke

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After its serialisation in the Bulletin between 1914 and 1915, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke sold more than 100,000 copies in the first five years and became an Australian literary phenomenon. Written from the perspective of ‘The Sentimental Bloke’ himself, the text’s ongoing acclamation is said to be a result of Dennis’ use of Aussie slang. The work’s celebration of Australian larrikinism established Dennis as ‘the laureate of the ANZAC’ with special pocket editions printed for the trenches during the Great War.

Clarence Michael James Dennis (1876–1938) spent his youth moving through a series of rural South Australian townships. He lived a marginal existence as a sporadic journalist in Adelaide and Sydney, subsidising his increasingly large drinking habit with menial jobs. It was 1914 before Dennis became a successful poet in large part due to the popularity of his idiomatic verse form. Recognising the public’s interest, Dennis published several tales that continued on from The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke. As ‘staff-poet’ of the Melbourne Herald from 1922, Dennis married and settled himself in Toolangi in North-East Melbourne.

The Glugs of Gosh

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The Glugs of Gosh is a political satire about the inhabitants of Gosh, a world that seems to be suspiciously full of the same weaknesses and absurdities as our own ... From the pride and grumpiness of kings, judges, mayors and teachers to the dangers of importing luxury goods and exporting weapons, C. J. Dennis immortalised the idiosyncrasies of human nature in entertaining verse.

The Eureka Stockade

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The Eureka Stockade is Carboni's eccentric yet shrewd account of the events leading up to and beyond the miners' revolt on the Victorian goldfields in 1854.

Raffaello Carboni (1817-1875) was born in Urbino, Italy. He arrived at the Victorian goldfields in 1853 and witnessed the attack on the Eureka Stockade in 1854 as a member of the miners central committee. He eventually returned to Italy to participate in the Risorgimento.

Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay

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Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay is one of Tench’s two accounts of early colonial Australian life, the other being The Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson. Before setting sail for Australia, Tench arranged with the London firm Debrett to publish his account of the colony for the eager readership back home. First published in 1789, the text ran to three editions and was promptly translated into French, German, Dutch and Swedish.

On the Track

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Published originally in 1900 by Angus and Robertson, On the Track is a collection of short stories that captures the lives of men and women living in turn-of-the-century Australia, using humour and sympathy in the descriptions.

Robbery Under Arms

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Rolf Boldrewood's most significant work was Robbery Under Arms published in serial form in the Sydney Mail 1882¿¿¿83, and published as a novel in London in 1888. This established his reputation in both England and the United States and allowed publication of several subsequent novels and collections of short stories. The subsequent novels include The Miner¿¿¿s Right of 1890 and A Sydney-side Saxon of 1891. Romance of Canvas Town (1898) and In Bad Company (1901) reprinted some of his shorter publications in the press. Boldrewood was conservative and wrote approvingly of good breeding and education, individual initiative and honesty. Most of his novels were romances. His best writings were those based in his experiences and rich detail of mining life can be found in Miner's Right and In Bad Company. H. M. Green described Dick Marston, the central character in the bushranger yarn Robbery Under Arms as "perhaps the most thoroughly Australian character in fiction." Rolf Boldrewood was the pseudonym of Thomas Alexander Browne (1826¿¿¿1915) who was born in London and arrived in Sydney with his parents in 1831. From 1844 he worked and prospered on the land in western Victoria. In 1869, however, he was forced from the land by drought and moved to Sydney. From 1871 he was appointed as police magistrate at a number of rural and gold digging centres in New South Wales, including Gulgong, Dubbo, Armidale and Albury. On his retirement he moved with his family to Melbourne and became a central part of the literary and social world there.

Jonah

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As Stone's most successful novel, Jonah broke new ground with its realistic and artistic representations of a city. Published in London in 1911, Jonah relates the story of Joe Jones, larrikin leader of a city 'push'.

A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson

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Watkin Tench served as a Marine officer on one of the vessels of the First Fleet and recorded his observations of the voyage in A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay. Tench also wrote of the subsequent settlement in New South Wales in A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson. These accounts are among the most important documents of early settlement in Australia, giving an insight into the early colonial settlement, as told through the keen eyes of a curious young man.

Doreen

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Doreen, C.J. Dennis’ third publication, extends on the narrative of The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke. It was first published by in October 1917 by Angus and Robertson.

The four tales in verse in Doreen describe the married life of "the Bloke", dramatising his communication and his conflicts with his "little wife" and illustrating their differences in raising "young Bill", but ultimately emphasising their domestic happiness.

Such is Life

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Such is Life is Furphy's great novel first published in 1903, and signalled the end of the "colonial romance" by its realistic portrayal of Australian rural life. Joseph Furphy (1843-1912) was born in Victoria and worked on farms, in the gold diggings and carting goods in the Riverina with a bullock team before taking employment in Shepparton where he was able to study and write.At his death in 1912 in Western Australia he was still largely unknown. A small group of admirers, including retired teacher Kate Baker, devoted themselves to promoting his work and by the 1940's he was recognised as one of the most significant Australian writers prior to World War I.

Below and on Top

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Below and On Top was published in 1898 and is a collection of short stories about mining and life in the bush. It contains Dyson's most famous story the classic "The Golden Shanty" as well as the stories:

Below and On Top
Sabbath Morn at Waddy
The Trucker's Dream
The Fossickers
At the Yards
A Visit to Scrubby Gully
A Golden Shanty
Hebe of Grasstree
A Zealot in Labour
The Washerwoman of Jacker's Flat
Dead Man's Load
After the Accident
Mr and Mrs Sin Fat
An Incident at the Old Pioneer
A Vain Sacrifice
Glover's Little Joke
A Child of Nature
The Whim Boy
Spicer's Courtship
The Conquering Bush
The Elopement of Mrs Peters
One Night
His Bad Luck

Edward Dyson (1865-1931) was born near Ballarat in Victoria and grew up in the bush and on the gold diggings. His experiences there enriched his later writings as a journalist and then freelance author.

Policy and Passion

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Around half of Rosa Praed's novels have Australian settings. Policy and Passion is generally viewed as her best work and draws on her experiences on the land in the Burnett River district in Queensland where she was brought up. Rosa Praed (1851-1935) was born and lived in rural Queensland. In 1875 she moved with her husband to England where she became known as a popular novelist and dramatist.Despite visiting Australia in 1894-5 she continued to live in England.

Botany Bay

2019-02-15T04:02:28+11:00

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Botany Bay contains Lang's most significant Australian work and was first published in 1853. It includes a number of short stories set in the early years of settlement. These are: The Ghost Upon the Rail The Master and His Man Giles! As I Live! Tracks in the Bush Captain Ketchcalfe Barrington Three Celebrities Baron Wald Sir Henry Hayes Kate Crawford Annie Saint Felix A Ramble with the Blacks Music A Terror John Lang (1816-1864) was born in Parramatta but studied Law in England 1837-1841 and from 1843 to 1845 practised as a lawyer in India. In India also he became editor of an English-language newspaper.From 1853 to 1859 Lang lived in England and Europe becoming a popular literary figure. He returned to India where he died in 1864.