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Australian Writers, by Desmond Byrne
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Title: Australian Writers
Author: Desmond Byrne
Release Date: April 24, 2009 [eBook #28599]
Language: English
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AUSTRALIAN WRITERS
by
DESMOND BYRNE
London Richard Bentley and Son Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen 1896
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CONTENTS.
PAGE INTRODUCTION 1
MARCUS CLARKE 29
HENRY KINGSLEY 90
ADA CAMBRIDGE 131
ADAM LINDSAY GORDON 159
ROLF BOLDREWOOD 189
MRS. CAMPBELL PRAED 229
TASMA 260
INTRODUCTION.
Any survey of the work done by Australian authors suggests a question as to what length of time ought to be allowed for the development of distinctive national characteristics in the literature of a young country self-governing to the extent of being a republic in all but name, isolated in position, highly civilised, enjoying all the modern luxuries available to the English-speaking race in older lands, and with a population fully two-thirds native. The common saying that a country cannot be expected to produce literature during the earl