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Lawson, Henry (1867 - 1922)

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Born
1867
Died
1922
Occupation
Activist, Poet and Writer

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Son of feminist Lousia Lawson, Henry Lawson was a prominent radical nationalist and socialist short story writer and poet.

See Brian Matthews, 'Lawson, Henry (1867 - 1922)', Australian Dictionary of Biiography Online.

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Book Sections

  • Milner, Andrew, 'Radical Intellectuals: an unacknowledged legislature?', in Verity Bergman and Jenny Lee (eds), Constructing a culture: a people's history of Australia since 1788, McPhee Gribble/ Penguin Books, Melbourne, 1988, pp. 259-84. [ | Details... ]

Journal Articles

  • Plews, Barry, 'Lawson -- lost and found', Bowyang, vol. 3, April 1980, 1980. [ | | Details... ]
  • Prichard, Katharine Susannah, 'Some thoughts on Australian Literature', The Realist, no. 15, 1964, p. 11. [ | Details... ]

Pamphlets

  • Henry Lawson Festival, 1960?. [ | | Details... ]

Poems

  • Lawson, Henry, 'Freedom on the wallaby', The Worker [Queensland] (Brisbane), 16 May 1891, p. 8. [ | | Details... ]

Songs

  • Reedy river & Ballad of 1891, Song words, 1891. [ | Details... ]

See also

  • 'Foreword', Australian new writing, vol. 1, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, March 1943, pp. 4-6. [ | Details... ]
  • 'Tradition and today', Overland, April, Overland, Melbourne, 1957, p. 2. [ | Details... ]
  • Diamond, Dick, Eumerella shore, 1955. [ | Details... ]
  • Diamond, Dick, Selections from Reedy river - Cover Image, Diaphon, 1955. [ | Details... ]
  • Diamond, Dick, Click go the shears, 1955. [ | Details... ]
  • Diamond, Dick, Widgeegoweera Joe, 1955. [ | Details... ]
  • Diamond, Dick, Reedy river, 1955. [ | Details... ]
  • Diamond, Dick, Old black billy, 1955. [ | Details... ]
  • Diamond, Dick, Banks of the Condamine, 1955. [ | Details... ]
  • Diamond, Dick, Reedy lagoon, 1955. [ | Details... ]
  • Diamond, Dick, Ballad of '91, 1955. [ | Details... ]
  • Diamond, Dick, Selections from Reedy river - Liner Notes, 1955. [ | Details... ]
  • Dick, Diamond, Four little Johnny cakes, 1955. [ | Details... ]
  • Lloyd Ross, 'Writers and social progress', The Australain observer, July 26, 1947, pp. 111-112. [ | Details... ]
  • Palmer, Vance, 'The future of Australian literature', The Age, Saturday, 9 February 1935. [ | Details... ]
  • Prichard, Katharine Susannah, 'Anti-Capitalist core of Australian literature', Communist Review, August, 1943, pp. 106-7. [ | | Details... ]
  • Waten, Judah, 'Australian literature in 1962', Realist Writer (Melbourne), no. 12, 1963, pp. 26-8. [ | Details... ]