Henry Lawson
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922)[1] was an Australian writer and poet. Along with Banjo Paterson, he is remembered as one of the best Australian writers. He wrote about life in the Australian bush.
Lawson was an nationalist and republican, and he wanted Australia to become and independent nation. Lawson wrote many stories and articles for The Bulletin. He used the Australian language in his stories. From the 1890s he suffered from alcoholism and mental illness which meant he did not write as much in his later years. He never had much money, and spent time in Darlinghurst Gaol and psychiatric institutions. After he died in 1922 following a cerebral haemorrhage, Lawson became the first Australian writer to be granted a state funeral.
His mother was Louisa Lawson, a poet, publisher and feminist.
Posthumous collections
- A Camp-Fire Yarn: Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 (1984)
- A Fantasy of Man: Henry Lawson Complete Works 1901-1922 (1984)
- The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories (1986)
- The Songs of Henry Lawson (1989)
- The Roaring Days (1994) (aka The Henry Lawson Collection Vol. 1)
- On the Wallaby Track (1994) (aka The Henry Lawson Collection Vol. 2)
Popular poems, short stories and sketches
- "A Child in the Dark, and a Foreign Father" (short story, 1902)
- "A Neglected History" (essay)
- "Andy's Gone with Cattle" (poem)
- "Australian Loyalty" (essay, 1887)
- "Freedom on the Wallaby" (poem, 1891)
- "Saint Peter" (poem, 1893)
- "Scots of the Riverina" (poem, 1917)
- "Steelman's Pupil" (short story)
- "The Babies of Walloon (poem, 1891)
- "The Bush Undertaker" (short story, 1892)
- "The City Bushman" (poem, 1892)
- "The Drover's Wife" (short story, 1892)
- "The Geological Spieler" (short story, 1896)
- "The Iron-Bark Chip" (short story, 1900)
- "The Loaded Dog" (short story, 1901)
- "The Teams" (poem, 1896)
- "The Union Buries Its Dead" (short story, 1893)
- "Triangles of Life, and other stories" (short stories, 1916)
- "United Division" (essay, 1888)
- "Up The Country" (poem, 1892)
Recurring characters
Henry Lawson Media
Lawson (right) with J. F. Archibald, founder of The Bulletin
Henry Lawson and children (1905), Royal Australian Historical Society/Osborne Collection
Portrait of Lawson by John Longstaff, 1900, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Bronze statue of Lawson accompanied by a swagman and dog, The Domain, Sydney, designed by George Washington Lambert and unveiled in 1931
Henry Lawson Centre, Gulgong
Henry Lawson on the reverse of a 10 Australian dollar banknote (1966-1993)
Related pages
References
- ↑ Matthews, Brian "Lawson, Henry (1867–1922)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University.
Other websites
Wikisource has original works written by or about: |
- Lawson, Henry (1867-1922) National Library of Australia, Trove, People and Organisation record for Henry Lawson
- Works by Henry Lawson at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Henry Lawson at Project Gutenberg Australia
- Poetry Archive: 125 poems of Henry Lawson
- Henry Lawson and Louisa Lawson Online Chronology Archived 2006-01-12 at the Wayback Machine
- Henry Lawson - Essays, Short Stories and Verse Collections
- The Songs of Henry Lawson Compiled by Chris Kempster - Second enlarged Edition March 2008 Archived 2008-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
- The Drover’s Wife Archived 2009-03-18 at the Wayback Machine at jbrowley.com