1896 in Australian literature

The year 1896 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.

For an overview of world literature see 1896 in literature.

See also: 1895 in Australian literature, 1896 in Australia, 1897 in Australian literature.

Books

• Guy Boothby
  • The Beautiful White Devil
  • Doctor Nikola
• Ernest Favenc — The Moccasins of Silence
• E. W. Hornung — The Rogue's March: A Romance
• Fergus Hume — The Expedition of Captain Flick
• Henry Lawson — While the Billy Boils
• Louise Mack — The World is Round
• Ethel Turner
  • The Little Duchess and Other Stories
  • The Little Larrikin

Poetry

• Christopher Brennan — " Towards the Source: 1894-97: I: 10" (aka "The Yellow Gas")
• Victor J. Daley — "Day and Night"
• Edward Dyson
  • "Peter Simson's Farm"
  • Rhymes from the Mines and Other Lines
• Ernest Favenc — "The Watchers"
• Henry Lawson
  • In the Days of When the World was Wide and Other Verses
  • "Past Carin'"
• A. B. Paterson
  • "Hay and Hell and Booligal"
  • "Mulga Bill's Bicycle"
  • "Pioneers"
  • "Rio Grande's Last Race"
  • "Song of the Artesian Water"
• J. Le Gay Brereton — The Song of Brotherhood, and Other Verses
• David McKee Wright — Aorangi and Other Verses

Short stories

• Barbara Baynton — "The Tramp" (aka "The Chosen Vessel")
• Ada Cambridge — "The Wind of Destiny"
• Albert Dorrington — "A Bush Tanqueray"
• Edward Dyson
  • "Court Day at Billybilly"
  • "The Elopement of Mrs Peters"
  • "Spicer's Courtship"
• Henry Lawson
  • "Black Joe"
  • "The Geological Spieler"
• Louisa Lawson — "What the Frogs Said"
• A. B. Paterson — "White-When-He's-Wanted"
• Steele Rudd — "Dad and the Two Donovans"
• Charles Henry Souter — "A Martyr of No Account"

Biography

• Henry Parkes — An Emigrant's Home Letters

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1896 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 20 March — Cecil Mann, editor and critic (died 1967)
• 3 April — Ronald Campbell, novelist and short story writer (died 1970)
• 28 September — Edward Harrington, poet (died 1966)
• 16 November — Joan Lindsay, novelist (died 1984)

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1896 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 27 April — Henry Parkes, poet and politician (born 1815)
• 27 December — Henry Clay, poet (born 1844)

See also

• 1896 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature

References