Work(s) of Henry Lawson

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[Biography of Henry Lawson]
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Titles in Short Story Category                                   Top

• "A Rough Shed"
  
• "Barney, Take Me Home Again"
  
• "Buckolts' Gate"
  
• "Dossing Out" And "Camping" from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• "Lord Douglas"
  
• "Middleton's Peter"
  
• "Rats" from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• "Roll Up At Talbragar"
  
• "Shall We Gather At The River?"
  
• "Water Them Geraniums" from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  
• Across The Straits from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Andy Page's Rival
  
• Another Of Mitchell's Plans For The Future from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Arvie Aspinall's Alarm Clock from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• At Dead Dingo from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  
• Babies In The Bush, The from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  
• Baldy Thompson from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Bath, The
  
• Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster
  
• Black Joe An Australian story from Over the Sliprails collection
  
• Blindness Of One-Eyed Bogan, The
  
• Board And Residence from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Bogg Of Geebung from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Boozers' Home, The
  
• Brighten's Sister-In-Law from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  
• Brummy Usen from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Buck-Jumper, The from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  
• Bush Cats
  
• Bush Dance, A from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  
• Bush Publican's Lament, A
  
• Bush Undertaker, The from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Bush-Fire, The
  
• Camp-Fire Yarn, A from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Case for the Oracle, A An Australian story from Over the Sliprails collection
  
• Chinaman's Ghost, The from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  
• Coming Across from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Darling River, The An Australian story from Over the Sliprails collection
  
• Daughter of Maoriland, A An Australian story from Over the Sliprails collection
  
• Day On A Selection, A from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Double Buggy At Lahey's Creek, A from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  
• Drifted Back from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Drover's Wife, The from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Droving Yarn, A
  
• Echo From The Old Bark School, An from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Enter Mitchell from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Exciseman, The
  
• For Auld Lang Syne from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Gentleman Sharper and Steelman Sharper, A An Australian story from Over the Sliprails collection
  
• Geological Spieler, The from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Gettin' Back On Dave Regan
  
• Ghostly Door, The from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  
• Ghosts Of Many Christmases, The
  
• Going Blind from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Golden Graveyard, The from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  
• He'd Come Back from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Hero In Dingo-Scrubs, A from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  
• Hero of Redclay, The An Australian story from Over the Sliprails collection
  
• His Brother's Keeper
  
• His Colonial Oath from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• His Country - After All from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• His Father's Mate from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• House That Was Never Built, The
  
• How Steelman told his Story
  
• Hungerford from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Hypnotized Township, The
  
• In A Dry Season from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• In A Wet Season from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Incident at Stiffner's, An An Australian story from Over the Sliprails collection
  
• Instinct Gone Wrong
  
• Iron-Bark Chip, The
  
• Jimmy Grimshaw's Wooing from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  
• Joe Wilson's Courtship from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  
• Jones's Alley from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Little World Left Behind, The from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  
• Loaded Dog, The from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  
• Lost Souls' Hotel, The
  
• Macquarie's Mate from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Man Who Forgot, The from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Master's Mistake, The An Australian story from Over the Sliprails collection
  
• Mateship In Shakespeare's Rome
  
• Meeting Old Mates
  
• Mitchell Doesn't Believe In The Sack from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Mitchell on Matrimony
  
• Mitchell on the "Sex" and Other "Problems" An Australian story from Over the Sliprails collection
  
• Mitchell on Women
  
• Mitchell's Jobs
  
• Mitchell: A Character Sketch from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Mr. Smellingscheck
  
• Mystery of Dave Regan, The
  
• New Year's Night An Australian story from Over the Sliprails collection
  
• No Place for a Woman
  
• Old Mate Of Your Father's -----, An from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• On The Edge Of A Plain from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• On The Tucker Track: A Steelman Story
  
• Our Pipes from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Oversight of Steelman's, An
  
• Payable Gold
  
• Poisonous Jimmy Gets Left from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  
• Remailed from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Rising Of The Court, The
  
• Romance Of The Swag, The
  
• Seeing the Last of You An Australian story from Over the Sliprails collection
  
• Selector's Daughter, The An Australian story from Over the Sliprails collection
  
• Send Round The Hat
  
• Settling On The Land from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Sex Problem Again, The
  
• Shanty-Keeper's Wife, The An Australian story from Over the Sliprails collection
  
• She Wouldn't Speak from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Shearer's Dream, The
  
• Shearing Of The Cook's Dog, The from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Shooting The Moon from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Sketch Of Mateship, A
  
• Some Day from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Songs They used to Sing, The
  
• Steelman from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Steelman's Pupil from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Stiffner And Jim (thirdly, Bill) from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Story Of "Gentleman Once", The
  
• Story Of Malachi, The from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Story of the Oracle, The An Australian story from Over the Sliprails collection
  
• Stragglers from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Telling Mrs Baker from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  
• That Pretty Girl In The Army
  
• That There Dog O' Mine from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• They Wait on the Wharf in Black An Australian story from Over the Sliprails collection
  
• Two Boys at Grinder Brothers' An Australian story from Over the Sliprails collection
  
• Two Dogs And A Fence from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Two Larrikins
  
• Two Sundowners
  
• Unfinished Love Story, An from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Union Buries Its Dead, The from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Vision of Sandy Blight, A
  
• Visit Of Condolence, A from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Wanted By The Police
  
• When The Sun Went Down from 'While the Billy Boils'
  
• Wild Irishman, A from 'Joe Wilson and His Mates'
  

Titles in Poem Category                                   Top

• 'For'ard'
  
• 'Sez You'
  
• After All
  
• Andy's Gone With Cattle
  
• Australian Bards And Bush Reviewers
  
• Ballad Of The Drover, The
  
• Ben Duggan
  
• Blue Mountains, The
  
• Cambaroora Star, The
  
• Cameron's Heart
  
• Cherry-Tree Inn
  
• City Bushman, The
  
• Corny Bill
  
• Dan, The Wreck
  
• Drover's Sweetheart, The
  
• Eurunderee
  
• Faces In The Street
  
• Farewell To The Bushmen
  
• Fire At Ross's Farm, The
  
• Free-Selector's Daughter, The
  
• Ghost, The
  
• Glass On The Bar, The
  
• Great Grey Plain, The
  
• In The Days When The World Was Wide
  
• Jack Dunn Of Nevertire
  
• Knocked Up
  
• Marshall's Mate
  
• Middleton's Rouseabout
  
• Mount Bukaroo
  
• Never-Never Country, The
  
• Out Back
  
• Past Carin'
  
• Peter Anderson And Co
  
• Poets Of The Tomb, The
  
• Prouder Man Than You, A
  
• Roaring Days, The
  
• Shame Of Going Back, The
  
• Shanty On The Rise, The
  
• Since Then
  
• Sliprails And The Spur, The
  
• Song And The Sigh, The
  
• Song Of Old Joe Swallow, The
  
• Star Of Australasia, The
  
• Sweeney
  
• Taking His Chance
  
• Teams, The
  
• To An Old Mate
  
• Trooper Campbell
  
• Up The Country
  
• Vagabond, The
  
• When The 'Army' Prays For Watty
  
• When The Children Come Home
  
• Wreck Of The 'Derry Castle', The
  

Biography of Henry Lawson [Top]

Henry Lawson was born near Grenfell, New South Wales, Australia on 17 June 1867. Although he has since become the most acclaimed Australian writer, in his own lifetime his writing was often "on the side"--his "real" work was whatever he could find, often painting houses, or doing rough carpentry. His writing was often taken from memories of his childhood, especially at Pipeclay/Eurunderee. In his autobiography, he states that many of his characters were taken from the better class of diggers and bushmen he knew there. His experiences at this time deeply influenced his work, for it is interesting to note a number of descriptions and phrases that are identical in his autobiography and in his stories and poems. He died in Sydney, 2 September 1922. Much of his writing was for periodicals, and even his regular publications were so varied, including books originally released as one volume being reprinted as two, and vice versa, that the multitude of permutations cannot be listed here. However, the following should give a basic outline of his major works:

  Books of Short Stories:

    While the Billy Boils  (1896)

    On the Track  (1900)

    Over the Sliprails  (1900)

    The Country I Come From  (1901)   

    Joe Wilson and His Mates  (1901)  

    Children of the Bush  (1902)      

    Send Round the Hat  (1907)       

    The Romance of the Swag  (1907)    

    The Rising of the Court  (1910)





Poetry:

    In the Days When the World Was Wide  (1896)

    Verses Popular and Humorous  (1900)

    When I Was King and Other Verses (1905)

    The Skyline Riders (1910)

    Selected Poems of Henry Lawson (1918)

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