1891 in Australian literature

The year 1891 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.

For an overview of world literature see 1891 in literature.

See also: 1890 in Australian literature, 1891 in Australia, 1892 in Australian literature.

Books

• Jennings Carmichael — Hospital Children: sketches of life and character in the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
• Charles Haddon Chambers — Thumb-Nail Sketches of Australian Life
• Fergus Hume — Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage
• Hume Nisbet
  • The Black Drop
  • The Savage Queen: A Romance of the Natives of Van Dieman's Land

Poetry

• Barcroft Boake
  • "The Digger's Song"
  • "On the Range"
  • "Where the Dead Men Lie"
• Victor J. Daley — "Lachesis"
• George Essex Evans
  • "An Australian Symphony"
  • The Repentance of Magdalene Despar and Other Poems
• Mary Hannay Foott — "The Gorse in Bloom"
• Henry Lawson
  • "Freedom on the Wallaby"
  • "My Literary Friend"
  • "The Shame of Going Back"
• Louisa Lawson — "A Dream"
• A. B. Paterson
  • "An Evening in Dandaloo"
  • "The Flying Gang: A Railroad Song"
  • "In the Droving Days"
  • "A Mountain Station"
  • "The Open Steeplechase"
• Alice Werner — "Bannerman of Dandenong: An Australian Ballad"

Short stories

• Mary Gaunt — "The Yanyilla Steeplechase"
• Louisa Lawson — "A Bush Experience"
• A. B. Paterson
  • "The Cast-Iron Canvasser"
  • "His Masterpiece"
• Campbell Praed — "The Bunyip"
• Price Warung
  • "John Price's Bar of Steel"
  • "The Liberation of the First Three"

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1891 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 9 April — Lesbia Harford, poet (died 1927)

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1891 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

See also

• 1891 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature

References