Louisa Lawson
Articles
- The Australian Bush-Woman
The Government statistician estimated that at the end of 1887 there were in the colony of New South Wales about 471,000 women and girls, so…
1 October 1982 - Louisa Lawson’s ‘The Australian Bush-Woman’–A Source for ‘The Drover’s Wife’ and ‘Water them Geraniums’?
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…
1 October 1982 - Review of Louisa by Brian Matthews
Was Louisa Lawson a termagant? Was she. in the luridly apposite words of the Shorter Oxford's definition, 'a savage, violent, boisterous, overbearing or quarrelsome person…
1 May 1988 - Review of Louisa by Brian Matthews
When it was known that another study of Louisa Lawson was to be published, there was a small flurry of expectation, especially amongst feminist historians…
1 May 1988 - Review of Out of Eden: Henry Lawson's Life and Works by Xavier Pons
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…
1 May 1985 - Louisa and Henry and Gertie and the Drover’s Wife
Examines three Mitchell Libraries manuscripts on the life of Louisa Lawson, one written by herself, and two by her daughter Gertrude, and discusses their role…
1 May 1980