1898 in Australian literature

The year 1898 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.

For an overview of world literature see 1898 in literature.

See also: 1897 in Australian literature, 1898 in Australia, 1899 in Australian literature.

Books

• Louis Becke
  • The Mutineer: A Romance of Pitcairn Island, with Walter James Jeffrey
  • Rodman the Boatsteerer and Other Stories
• Rolf Boldrewood — A Romance of Canvas Town and Other Stories
• Guy Boothby
  • Across the World for a Wife
  • Billy Binks, Hero, and Other Stories
  • Pharos the Egyptian
• Ada Cambridge — Materfamilias
• Edward Dyson — Below and On Top
• Mary Gaunt — Deadman's
• Gertrude Hart — Clouds That Pass
• Louise Mack — Girls Together
• Rosa Praed — The Scourge-Stick
• Douglas Sladen — Trincolox
• Ethel Turner — The Camp at Wandinong

Poetry

• E. J. Brady
  • "The Great Grey Water"
  • "Lost and Given Over"
• Christopher Brennan — "The Forest of Night: 1898-1902: The Twilight of Disquietude: 36"
• Victor J. Daley
  • At Dawn and Dusk
  • "Correggio Jones"
• George Essex Evans — Loraine and Other Verses
• Ernest Favenc — "The Guard of the Northern Strait: A Song of Queensland"
• W. T. Goodge
  • "Daley's Dorg Wattle"
  • "Mulligan's Shanty"
• Henry Lawson — "Sydney-Side"
• Marion Miller Knowles — Songs from the Hills
• Breaker Morant — "Kitty's Broom"
• Will H. Ogilvie
  • "Abandoned Selections"
  • "Bowmont Water"
  • Fair Girls and Gray Horses: With Other Verses
• A. B. Paterson
  • "Saltbush Bill's Gamecock"
  • "T.Y.S.O.N."
• Roderic Quinn
  • "The Camp Within the West"
  • "The Fisher"
  • "The Hidden Tide"
• Thomas E. Spencer — "How M'Dougall Topped the Score"

Short stories

• Albert Dorrington — "Castro's Last Sacrament"
• Edward Dyson — "The Conquering Bush"
• Henry Lawson — "Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster"
• Ethel Mills — "A Box of Dead Roses"
• Roderic Quinn — "A Stripe for Trooper Casey"
• Steele Rudd — "On Our Selection"

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1898 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 7 February — Jean Curlewis, poet and writer for children (died 1930)
• 21 February — Llewellyn Lucas, poet (died 1967)
• 17 July — Richard Harry Graves, poet and novelist (died 1971)

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1898 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 28 March — George Robertson, bookseller (born 1825)

See also

• 1898 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature

References