Henry Lawson
Articles
- Review of Henry Lawson: The Grey Dreamer by Denton Prout
'Facts are stubborn things', writes Denton Prout on p. 201 of Henry Lawson: The Grey Dreamer, 'and it is a biographer's duty to reveal…
1 June 1964 - The Text of Lawson’s Prose
The textual problem is a vexed one. In the absence of final proof copies with the author's own corrections the textual student can only proceed…
1 December 1966 - Review of Henry Lawson Collected Verse, edited by Colin Roderick, and Henry Lawson Poet and Short Story Writer by Colin Roderick
Professor Roderick has for a good many years now interested himself in the work and career of Henry Lawson, and the Collected Verse, to…
1 October 1967 - Review of Henry Lawson, Letters 1890-1922 edited by Colin Roderick
Probably nobody in the world knows more about Henry Lawson than Professor Roderick. In recent years he has given us his three volume edition of…
1 May 1971 - Review of books by Matthews, Phillips, and Roderick on Henry Lawson
Cantrell reviews the following books:
The Receding Wave: Henry Lawson's Prose by Brian Matthews (Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1972).
Henry Lawson by A. A. Phillips…
1 May 1973 - Henry Lawson and Gertrude Moore
Rollo Arnold's reconstruction of Henry Lawson's association with Gertrude Moore at Pahiatua, on his first visit to New Zealand (Australian Literary Studies vol. 4…
1 May 1971 - Henry Lawson; ‘The Sliprails and the Spur’ at Pahiatua?
When Henry Lawson wrote 'The Sliprails and the Spur' in 1899 he could draw on partings in his own life for inspiration. Yet one of…
1 May 1970 - Henry Lawson’s New Zealand Visits: A Comment
Rollo Arnold's important and interesting essay on Henry Lawson's three visits to New Zealand (Australian Literary Studies, vol. 3, no. 3, May 1968)…
1 May 1969 - Literary Nationalism and the 1890s
In 1892, readers of the Sydney Bulletin saw the beginnings of an argument which developed into the single most significant event in the history of…
1 May 1971 - A Reply to W.H. Pearson
It has been an unexpected pleasure to have my article come under the searching scrutiny of a scholar who has worked thoroughly over the same…
1 May 1969 - Henry Lawson: The New Zealand Visits
Writers on Henry Lawson have so far failed to give an adequate account of his visits to New Zealand in the 1890s The importance of…
1 May 1968 - [Keeping Up Appearances]
You could tell them by signs that were plain; by the ink-stains; by the bits of mortar or plaster on their hats and clothes; by…
1 October 1982 - Louisa Lawson’s ‘The Australian Bush-Woman’–A Source for ‘The Drover’s Wife’ and ‘Water them Geraniums’?
Louisa Lawson's important early article, 'The Australian Bush-Woman', which appeared in both the Boston Woman's Journal (27 July 1889) and in the London Englishwoman's Review…
1 October 1982 - Review of In Search of Henry Lawson by Manning Clark
Manning Clark, retired teacher, active historian and occasional writer of short stories affords himself the pleasure of a generous 'hymn of praise to a man…
1 May 1980 - Review of Territorial Disputes: Maps and Mapping Strategies in Contemporary Canadian and Australian Fiction, by Graham Huggan, and Identifying Australia in Postmodern Times, edited by Livio Dobrez.
Comparative studies can be disastrously seductive. Allured by the opportunity to construct an edifice of one's own, critics may find it difficult to resist the…
1 October 1995 - Australian Short Fiction from While the Billy Boils to The Everlasting Secret Family
As every writing on or of short fiction knows, beginnings and endings are vital. The boundaries of this critical outline of twentieth-century Australian short fiction…
1 October 1981 - Some Previously Unpublished Lawson Material in Australian Libraries
Discusses new papers discovered at the La Trobe Library.
1 October 1982 - ‘What Has He Done For Our National Spirit?’—A Note On Lawson Criticism
With the possible exception of Patrick White, no Australian writer has been the subject of as much printed comment as Henry Lawson. Colin Roderick's selection…
1 October 1978 - Narrative Technique in Lawson
Examines Lawson's use of narrative frameworks in his sketches, arguing that 'contrasts between the story and the narrator's discourse point to a problematic realism and…
1 May 1980 - Louisa and Henry and Gertie and the Drover’s Wife
Examines three Mitchell Libraries manuscripts on the life of Louisa Lawson, one written by herself, and two by her daughter Gertrude, and discusses their role…
1 May 1980
Contributors
- Rollo D. Arnold
- Rollo D. Arnold
- Rollo D. Arnold
- Rosilyn Baxter
- John Barnes
- Leon Cantrell
- Dennis Douglas
- Brian Elliott
- Lucy Frost
- Douglas R. Garvis
- Harry Payne Heseltine
- Harry Payne Heseltine
- Brian Kiernan
- Henry Lawson
- Brian Matthews
- Bruce Nesbitt
- William Harrison Pearson
- Bill Pearson
- Elizabeth Webby
- Elaine J Zinkhan