Australian Writers: Men’s Week, Gens 1-3, Jan 12 to 19, 2025
Henry Lawson’s ‘ The Drover’s Wife’ first appeared in the Bulletin in 1892 and then in the collection Short Stories in Prose and Verse (1894) published on the presses of his mother, Louisa’s newspaper, The Dawn. It has been ever since Australia’s favourite story.
The collection Frank Moorehouse has drawn together is of riffs and variations on the story (though Drysdale claims his The Drover’s Wife painting is unconnected). Today, Marcie/Buried in Print reviews this new to her work from the depths of a northern Canadian winter.
In recent Januaries, Bill @ The Australian Legend has been hosting weeks dedicated to Australian women writers for so long that he finally invited the fellas to have a week too.
My own interest in Australia was initially sparked in the fourth grade when I was assigned the Platypus (of course, I wanted the koala, but everyone wanted the koala). Read on …