Writers' tours & visits

INFORMATION about early colonial literary personalities is almost always hard to get, and in the case of Henry Kingsley who was nearly five years in…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

Since Kipling was no ordinary traveller, his actual exploits and his early reputation among the Australians are both of interest. A study of the reception…

Discusses the seven-week leg of Mark Twain's 1895 Australian tour in which the writer visited seven Victorian country towns, concentrating particularly on the responses to…

As Australia was turning, politically, away from England and towards America in the 1940s, a similar, though less discussed cultural shift was also taking place…