Henry Lawson

'Facts are stubborn things', writes Denton Prout on p. 201 of Henry Lawson: The Grey Dreamer, 'and it is a biographer's duty to reveal…

The textual problem is a vexed one. In the absence of final proof copies with the author's own corrections the textual student can only proceed…

Professor Roderick has for a good many years now interested himself in the work and career of Henry Lawson, and the Collected Verse, to…

Probably nobody in the world knows more about Henry Lawson than Professor Roderick. In recent years he has given us his three volume edition of…

Cantrell reviews the following books:

The Receding Wave: Henry Lawson's Prose by Brian Matthews (Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1972).

Henry Lawson by A. A. Phillips…

Rollo Arnold's reconstruction of Henry Lawson's association with Gertrude Moore at Pahiatua, on his first visit to New Zealand (Australian Literary Studies vol. 4…

When Henry Lawson wrote 'The Sliprails and the Spur' in 1899 he could draw on partings in his own life for inspiration. Yet one of…

Rollo Arnold's important and interesting essay on Henry Lawson's three visits to New Zealand (Australian Literary Studies, vol. 3, no. 3, May 1968)…

In 1892, readers of the Sydney Bulletin saw the beginnings of an argument which developed into the single most significant event in the history of…

It has been an unexpected pleasure to have my article come under the searching scrutiny of a scholar who has worked thoroughly over the same…

Writers on Henry Lawson have so far failed to give an adequate account of his visits to New Zealand in the 1890s The importance of…

You could tell them by signs that were plain; by the ink-stains; by the bits of mortar or plaster on their hats and clothes; by…

The title of Colin Roderick's book is suggestive in more ways than one; principally, it gives the impression that there are matters concerning the life…

Louisa Lawson's important early article, 'The Australian Bush-Woman', which appeared in both the Boston Woman's Journal (27 July 1889) and in the London Englishwoman's Review…

Manning Clark, retired teacher, active historian and occasional writer of short stories affords himself the pleasure of a generous 'hymn of praise to a man…

Comparative studies can be disastrously seductive. Allured by the opportunity to construct an edifice of one's own, critics may find it difficult to resist the…

Though he is more careful and, in general, much fairer than others who have written about Lawson's parents, Xavier Pons's account contains in my view…

As every writing on or of short fiction knows, beginnings and endings are vital. The boundaries of this critical outline of twentieth-century Australian short fiction…

Over the last few years a considerable amount has been added to knowledge of Henry Lawson's life, including his brief but important period in England…

Discusses new papers discovered at the La Trobe Library.