1903 in Australian literature

The year 1903 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.

For an overview of world literature see 1903 in literature.

See also: 1902 in Australian literature, 1903 in Australia, 1904 in Australian literature.

Books

• Louis Becke — Helen Adair
• Randolph Bedford — True Eyes and the Whirlwind
• Guy Boothby
  • Connie Burt
  • The Countess Londa
  • The League of the Twelve
  • A Two-Fold Inheritance
• Joseph Furphy — Such Is Life
• E.W. Hornung — Denis Dent
• Rosa Praed
  • Fugitive Anne: A Romance of the Unexplored Bush
  • The Ghost
• Steele Rudd — Our New Selection
• Ethel Turner — Betty and Co

Poetry

• C. J. Dennis — "'Urry!"
• George Essex Evans — "The Wayfarers"
• Mary Gilmore — "Marri'd"
• Henry Kendall — Poems of Henry Clarence Kendall
• Henry Lawson
  • "A Voice from the City"
  • "The Wander-Light"
• Louisa Lawson
  • "The Digger's Daughter"
  • "The Hour is Come"
  • "A Reverie"
• Breaker Morant — "When Stock Go By"
• Bernard O'Dowd — Dawnward?
• Will H. Ogilvie — Hearts of Gold and Other Verses
• A.B. Paterson
  • "The Riders in the Stand"
  • "Saltbush Bill on the Patriarchs"

Biography

• Ada Cambridge — Thirty Years in Australia

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1903 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 9 April — Paul McGuire, diplomat and novelist (died 1978)
• 22 July — Betty Roland, journalist and writer for children (died 1996)
• 24 September — Lennie Lower, writer (died 1947)
• 15 October — Pixie O'Harris, poet and writer for children (died 1991)
• 29 October — Olive Pell, librarian and dramatist (died 2002)

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1903 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 12 March — Leontine Cooper, essayist and short story writer (born 1837)
• 15 August — William Barak, writer (born ca. 1824)

Unknown Date

• March — Aeneas J. Gunn, pastoralist and writer (born 1862)

See also

• 1903 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature

References