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Literature

Subject

Lindsay, Jack

Lindsay, Norman

Lindsay, Philip

Literature

Miles Franklin

Rees, Leslie

Sumner Locke Elliott

Varuna

Big Bad Banksia Man

Careful, He Might Hear You

Fairyland: A Novel

First Fruits of Australian Poetry

Lone Hand

My Brilliant Career

Snugglepot and Cuddlepie

The Book of the Waratah Cup, 1902-1908, 1944-1954

Tien Ve

When It Comes

Writers' Walk

Garryowen House

Varuna

Wambrook, 26 Grey Street, Carlton

Miles Franklin Literary Award

Patrick White Literary Award

St Albans Writers Festival

Australian Celtic Association

Australian Writers and Artists Union

Dymocks

Shakespeare Society of New South Wales

Adams, Arthur H

Adams, Robert Dudley

Anderson, Gae

Barnard, Marjorie

Bertie, Charles Henry

Brereton, John Le Gay (1871–1933)

Brewster, Henry Charles

Brooks, Geraldine

Browne, Thomas Alexander (Rolf Boldrewood)

Bunn, Anna Maria

Byrne, Paula Jane

Cappiello, Rosa

Cardus, Neville

Coombs, H C (Nugget)

Corringham, Mary

Creswell, Rosemary

Daley, Victor

Dalton, Robin

Dark, Eleanor

Deamer, Dulcie

Dennis, CJ

Dubosarsky, Ursula

Edmonds, Catherine (Caddie)

Farwell, George

Ferguson, John Alexander

Flower, Pat

Franklin, Miles

Furphy, Joseph

Garside, EW

Gibbs, May

Gilmore, Mary

Gleeson, Libby

Green, Henry Mackenzie

Greenwood, Kerry

Gurr, Thomas Stuart

Hall, Richard

Halligan, Marion

Hathorn, Libby

Hazzard, Shirley

Henning, Rachel Biddulph

Henry, Juliette

Hickson, Jill

Holledge, James

James, Clive

James, Florence

Johnston, George Henry

Keesing, Nancy

Keneally, Tom

Kenneally, Christine

Kirkpatrick, Peter

Langford Ginibi, Ruby

Lawrence, DH

Lawson, Henry (1867-1922)

Lilley, Merv

Lindsay, Jack

Lindsay, Norman

Lindsay, Philip

Llewellyn, Kate

Locke, Helena Sumner

Marr, David

Matthews, Harley

McGregor, Fiona

Meagher, James A

Meredith, Louisa Anne

Metzenthen, David

Moorhouse, Frank

Ord, Marion

Park, Ruth

Paterson, AB (Banjo)

Phelps, Bertha Emily

Quinn, Patrick

Quinn, Roderick

Rees, Leslie

Rockwell, T

Roland, Betty

Rose-Soley, Agnes

Rubinstein, Gillian

Seymour, Jasmine

Stephens, Alfred

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Stewart, Douglas

Trollope, Anthony

Twopeny, Richard Ernest Nowell

Viidikas, Vicki

Walch, Garnet

Weaver, Shane

Webby, Elizabeth

White, Patrick

Wilding, Michael

Wrightson, Patricia

May Gibbs c1925

A Mother's Offering to her Children by a Lady, long resident in New South Wales, 1841

Advertisement in the Lone Hand for Heenzo 'the famous money saving remedy for coughs, colds, croup, catarrh' with Henry Lawson 1918

Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson, poet, solicitor, journalist, war correspondent and soldier c1890

Bertha E Phelps c1900

Charles H Bertie, City Librarian, 1925-1927

Cover of 'Digit Dick and The Lost Opals' by Leslie Rees and illustrated by Hutchings, Lansdowne Press 1971

Cover of Pan edition of 'Come in Spinner' 1960

Cover of the first edition of 'My Brilliant Career' by Miles Franklin 1901

Dorothea Mackellar, writer 1927

Douglas Stewart 1983

Eleanor Dark's former studio at Varuna 2010

Enmore House 1836-1840, described by Rolf Boldrewod

Entrance to Dymock's Book Arcade with Melocco Bros terrazzo paving, April 1938

Eric Dark, Eleanor Dark and son Mick with Hennesy at Varuna c1938

Ethel Turner Curlewis, at Avenel, Mosman, New South Wales, 1928

Ethel Turner at Girls High School Sydney about 15, 1885

Interior of the Mitchell Library reading room July 1942

Jack Lindsay, Cambridge 1985

Louisa Anne Meredith seated on stone bench, Tasmania 1858-1863

Marjorie Barnard, writer and historian c1936

Mary Gilmore 1927

Miles Franklin c1895

Miles Franklin c1925

Miles Franklin's final entry in her diary, 14 September 1954

Miles Franklin's waratah cup and saucer c1923

Miles Franklin, Carlton c1950

Mrs Anna Maria Bunn c1829

Norman Lindsay 1936

Page from Miles Franklin's Waratah Book with signatures of artists Pixie O'Harris and Marie McNiven 1950-1951

Portrait of Ada Cambridge c1917-1926

Portrait of Eleanor Dark 1948

Portrait of Patrick White, Centennial Park 1983

Portrait of Patrick White, Kings Cross, New South Wales 1980

Robert Louis Stevenson with his mother, wife and step-daughter at their temporary residence, Darlinghurst, January 1893

Ruth Park holding her cat outside her home in Balgowlah, 10 December 1962

Ruth Park writing at home, one of her children under the table, September 1951

Ruth Park, pre 1947

Stained glass in the Shakespeare Room, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Sumner Locke Elliott 1938

The Hero of Coogee Beach 1922

This book may make him a millionaire 1963

Tom Keneally speaks 21 August 2012

Varuna c2012

Wambrook, Grey St, Carlton NSW c1950

When It Comes, by Dorothea Mackellar

Zora Bernice May Cross, poet and writer 1927

Zora Cross 1919

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Literature

Lindsay, Jack

A writer who lived most of his life in England, Jack Lindsay was the son of Norman Lindsay, and chronicled the bohemian life of Sydney in the 1920s in his autobiography.

Lindsay, Norman

Lured to Sydney by the editor of The Bulletin, Norman Lindsay later found fame as a painter, etcher and writer. His daring images and bohemian reputation made him notable in staid Sydney, and his home at Springwood has, since his death, become one of Australia's most visited house museums.

Lindsay, Philip

Born in Sydney but brought up in Brisbane, Philip Lindsay returned to Sydney as a teenager and became involved in Sydney's literary subculture.

Literature

Writing in and about Sydney started with letters, journals and official reports, but has grown to encompass every genre of literature.

Miles Franklin

The life of Miles Franklin is a vital chapter in the story of Australian literature. While always a girl from the bush, for much of her life she called Sydney home.

Rees, Leslie

Author of the Digit Dick series for children, as well as journalism, travel books and an autobiography, Leslie Rees was a well-respected member of Sydney's literary community.

Sumner Locke Elliott

Sumner Locke Elliott, actor, playwright and novelist, lived in Sydney until 1948 and thereafter in the United States. In the 1960s after a successful career as a playwright he decided to reinvent himself as a novelist and of his ten novels five are based on his life in Sydney between the 1920s and 1940s. He won the Miles Franklin Award in 1963 and the Patrick White Award in 1977.

Varuna

Varuna, in Katoomba, was the home of Eleanor and Eric Dark. In 1989, with one of the most generous individual philanthropic gestures in Australia's literary history, their son Mick Dark gave the house and land to the Eleanor Dark Foundation so it could be used as a place for writers to work, and to discuss ideas around the fireplace, as it had been in his parents' time.

Big Bad Banksia Man

Character from May Gibb's comic strip Adventures of Bib and Bub.

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Careful, He Might Hear You

Semi-autobiographical novel by Sumner Locke Elliott about a young boy caught up in a custody battle between his aunts in Depression era Sydney. The book was made into a film in 1983.

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Fairyland: A Novel

Autobiographical novel by Sumner Locke Elliott that was published in 1990, the year before his death. The main character is a writer coming to terms with his homosexuality in Sydney in the 1930s and 1940s.

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First Fruits of Australian Poetry

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The first volume of verse published in Australia, written by Barron Field and printed by George Howe in Sydney in 1819.

Lone Hand

Illustrated monthly magazine published from 1907 until 1921 by Jules Francois Archibald and John Haynes.

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My Brilliant Career

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Novel by Miles Franklin, first published in 1901. In 1979 it was made into a film by Gillian Armstrong, starring Judy Davis, Sam Neill, and Wendy Hughes.

Snugglepot and Cuddlepie

Series of children's books by May Gibbs, which follow the adventures of gumnut babies Snugglepot and Cuddlepie in the Australian bush, and their encounters with the villainous 'big bad' Banksia Men.

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The Book of the Waratah Cup, 1902-1908, 1944-1954

Guest book belonging to Miles Franklin, who asked her guests to sign it when they were visited her at home and were served tea in her waratah cup. It is now held in the Mitchell Library.

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Tien Ve

Online centre for Vietnamese art and literature.

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When It Comes

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Dorothea Mackellar's first published poem, written when she was 15 and said to have been inspired by the death of her brother, Keith Kinnaird Mackellar, in 1900. Published in July 1903 in the American 'Harper's Monthly Magazine'.

Writers' Walk

Walking trail along the waterfront at Circular Quay that commemorates 34 writers connected in some way with Sydney or New South Wales.

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Garryowen House

Grand Victorian Regency stone residence which survives with some alterations and is now used as a writers' centre.

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Varuna

Large Katoomba house built by Eleanor and Eric Dark in the 1930s and donated to the New South Wales government as a writer's retreat in 1989.

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Wambrook, 26 Grey Street, Carlton

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Small weatherboard Federation cottage in southern Sydney, notable for being the home of writer Miles Franklin and her parents until 1954.

Miles Franklin Literary Award

Literary prize established by writer Miles Franklin with a bequest upon her death, which is awarded each year to a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases.

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Patrick White Literary Award

Established by Patrick White following his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 for authors who have made a significant but inadequately recognised contribution to Australian literature.

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St Albans Writers Festival

Annual lIterary festival held in the rural village of St Albans in the Macdonald Valley since 2015.

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Australian Celtic Association

Social association to promote Irish literature.

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Australian Writers and Artists Union

Trade union established in 1910.

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Dymocks

Bookselling business begun by William Dymock in the 1880s in Pitt Street as Dymock's Book Arcade. He moved to larger premises on King Street and then again in 1890 to George Street, in the southern wing of the Royal Hotel on the eastern side of the road between King and Market Streets. The flagship store remained in the same location after the original George Street store was demolished and replaced by 'The Block', or 'The Dymock's Building' in the 1920s.

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Shakespeare Society of New South Wales

Organisation formed in 1900 to foster appreciation and study of Shakespeare's works.

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Adams, Arthur H

Prolific playwright, novelist, poet and editor of several Sydney periodicals.

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Adams, Robert Dudley

Businessman and poet who took out mining rights across Sydney in 1874, leading to the establishment of the Balmain colliery. He lived with his family at the cottage they built, Fernlee, at Snails Bay, Balmain.

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Anderson, Gae

Biographer.

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Barnard, Marjorie

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Novelist who co-wrote with Flora Eldershaw under the pseudonym M Barnard Eldershaw.

Bertie, Charles Henry

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Librarian, historian, Australiana collector and author who was appointed as the first librarian of the Sydney Municipal Library in 1909. In 1918 he established within the Municipal Library the first public lending library for children in Australia. An active member of the Royal Australian Historical Society he wrote and spoke on many aspects of Sydney's history and amassed an impressive collection of Australian material.

Brereton, John Le Gay (1871–1933)

Literary scholar John Le Gay Brereton was appointed Assistant Librarian of the University of Sydney in 1902, nominally under the titular Librarian who was also the Registrar. He was appointed Librarian in 1914 and served in that role until he was appointed Professor of English Literature in 1921. He worked with the government architect on the design of the first Fisher Library (now Maclaurin Hall) and greatly strengthened the Library's holdings, particularly in literary areas.

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Brewster, Henry Charles

Writer.

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Brooks, Geraldine

Journalist and author who grew up in Sydney.

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Browne, Thomas Alexander (Rolf Boldrewood)

Pastoralist and public servant who wrote novels, including Robbery Under Arms, under the pseudonym Rolf Boldrewood. He added 'e' to his surname in the 1860s.

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Bunn, Anna Maria

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Author of the first novel printed and published in Sydney. Anna Maria Bunn (1808–1889) was the anonymous author of The Guardian: a Tale (by an Australian) (1838) the first novel published on mainland Australia and the first in the continent by a woman. Bunn’s authorship was only established after an historian found a copy of the book in which her son had noted his mother’s authorship

Byrne, Paula Jane

Historian and author of works on colonial manners, female economy and law.

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Cappiello, Rosa

Italian-born writer who wrote about her experience of migration to Australia in Oh Lucky Country, 1981.

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Cardus, Neville

English writer and critic, particularly on music and cricket, born 1889, died 1975.

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Coombs, H C (Nugget)

Economist who became the first Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia. He was also a strong supporter of the arts. In 1967 he persuaded Prime Minister Harold Holt to legislate to create the Australian Council for the Arts (Australia Council) as a body for the public funding of the arts. He helped found the Australian National University and helped secure funding for the Australian film industry. He was also a supporter of the rights of Australia's Indigenous people.

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Corringham, Mary

Journalist, art critic and poet.

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Creswell, Rosemary

Literary agent, editor and author who also worked as a lecturer and book reviewer.In 2008 she received an OAM for service to literature, particularly through the promotion and support of Australian writers.

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Daley, Victor

Poet and journalist whose work appeared in the Bulletin and Sydney Punch, and founder of the Dawn and Dusk club of writers and artists. He often wrote under the pseudonym Creeve Roe.

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Dalton, Robin

Australian author, literary agent and film producer.

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Dark, Eleanor

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Sydney-born novelist who lived for many years in the Blue Mountains.

Deamer, Dulcie

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Actor and writer who was a founder of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and became known as the Queen of Sydney's Kings Cross Bohemia.

Dennis, CJ

Poet and freelance journalist whose reputation was largely built around the sentiment and humour of The Sentimental Bloke.

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Dubosarsky, Ursula

Writer of picture books, novels and non-fiction for children and young adults.

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Edmonds, Catherine (Caddie)

Barmaid whose biography of her work during the Depression became a best seller when it was adapted into a feature film in 1976, which grossed over two million dollars worldwide.

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Farwell, George

Author and traveller, whose obsession with the outback provided a setting for much of his writing.

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Ferguson, John Alexander

Barrister and judge who became an avid collector of Australiana and bibliographer who aimed to include an accurate description of every book, pamphlet, periodical and newspaper relating in any way to Australia.

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Flower, Pat

Crime novelist and television playwright.

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Franklin, Miles

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Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin was an Australian writer and feminist. She established the Miles Franklin Literary Award for literature through a bequest on her death. It is awarded each year to a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases. Her papers and diaries are held by the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

Furphy, Joseph

Writer and author, under the pseudonym Tom Collins, of the classic Australian novel 'Such is Life', first published in 1903.

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Garside, EW

Writer.

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Gibbs, May

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Author and illustrator whose gumnut babies and bad 'banksia men' delighted generations of children.

Gilmore, Mary

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Poet, prose writer and pacifist who campaigned for social and economic reform, particularly that involving Aborigines, the poor and the aged.

Gleeson, Libby

Children's author and script writer for young children.

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Green, Henry Mackenzie

Journalist, librarian and literary historian, Green moved from journalism into the University of Sydney where he served as Librarian and also lectured in literature, particularly Australian literature. In 1961 he published 'A History of Australian Literature'.

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Greenwood, Kerry

Author of science fiction, historical fiction, children's stories and plays.

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Gurr, Thomas Stuart

Journalist and writer.

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Hall, Richard

Editor and writer.

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Halligan, Marion

Author of novels, short stories and reviews.

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Hathorn, Libby

Children's author.

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Hazzard, Shirley

Author of fiction and nonfiction who has lived and worked overseas since 1947.

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Henning, Rachel Biddulph

Colonial English migrant whose letters to her family about her colonial experiences were serialised posthumously in The Bulletin in 1951-1952 with illustrations by Norman Lindsay as The Letters of Rachel Henning, and subsequently published as a book. Her papers are now in the Mitchell Library.

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Henry, Juliette

French woman who joined her partner, doctor Paul Rastoul, in New Caledonia in 1873 after he was exiled from France after the defeat of the Commune in Paris in 1871. She arrived in Sydney with her two children in 1874 after being deported for assisting in the attempted escape of a French communard. Paul Rastoul drowned trying to escape the following year. In Sydney she worked as a French teacher and in 1880 she married French artist Lucien Henry, another former Communard. After his departure for Paris in 1891 she began divorce proceedings. As well as taking part in Sydney's intellectual and social life, she established Cercle Litteraire Française, French literary circles in Hobart and Sydney. A monument to her was erected in Waverley Cemetery in November 1898.

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Hickson, Jill

Businessperson with background in marketing and international relations.

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Holledge, James

Writer active between 1962 and 1970.

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James, Clive

Author, television and radio broadcaster, critic and poet who grew up in Kogarah in Sydney's south. He left Australia for England in 1961, and remained living and working in the United Kingdom until his death.

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James, Florence

Author and literary agent.

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Johnston, George Henry

Writer and journalist whose greatest acclaim came with his autobiographical works exploring the Australian themes of mateship and success.

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Keesing, Nancy

Author of poetry, childrens novels, biography and literary criticism.

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Keneally, Tom

Author, essayist and playwright.

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Kenneally, Christine

Writer.

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Kirkpatrick, Peter

Writer, poet and lecturer.

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Langford Ginibi, Ruby

Writer whose best known work is an autobiography, Don't Take Your Love to Town (1988).

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Lawrence, DH

English author, poet and playwright who visited Australia during 1922.

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Lawson, Henry (1867-1922)

Writer and poet who became identified with bush life, despite living most of his life in Sydney.

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Lilley, Merv

Queensland-born writer and poet who spent his early years in the timber and mining industries. He was also a political activist and joined the Communist Party of Australia. From the early 1950s he was a poet, songwriter and short story writer.

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Lindsay, Jack

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Writer and art historian who was part of Sydney's bohemia in the 1920s.

Lindsay, Norman

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Cartoonist, painter and bohemian who also wrote successful novels and became one of Sydney's best known artists.

Lindsay, Philip

Writer and son of Norman Lindsay who was active in the Sydney literary scene of the 1920s.

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Llewellyn, Kate

Author.

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Locke, Helena Sumner

Author and playwright who died in 1917 of eclampsia after giving birth to her son Sumner Locke Elliott.

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Marr, David

Journalist, author and political and social commentator.

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Matthews, Harley

Writer, soldier and vigneron whose vineyard became a popular venue for Sydney's Bohemia.

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McGregor, Fiona

Author and performance artist.

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Meagher, James A

Solicitor and raconteur with a love of Irish literature, who helped and encouraged the best of Sydney's literary minds in the mid twentieth century.

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Meredith, Louisa Anne

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Author, poet and natural history artist who recorded her observations of colonial life and bush flora and fauna from Sydney to Tasmania.

Metzenthen, David

Writer for young adults and children.

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Moorhouse, Frank

Writer and former journalist who has often used his local area in Balmain as setting for his work.

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Ord, Marion

Writer and editor.

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Park, Ruth

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New Zealand-born writer who lived most of her life in Sydney and is the author of many novels, children's books and non-fiction books including novels based on Sydney's history.

Paterson, AB (Banjo)

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Poet, solicitor, journalist and war correspondent who wrote about Australian life, particularly focusing on the outback.

Phelps, Bertha Emily

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Author and composer active at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Quinn, Patrick

Journalist who also wrote verse and fiction and became a member of Legislative Assembly.

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Quinn, Roderick

Leading poet and writer of fiction, known for his singing ability, who was an editor at the North Sydney News and the Daily Telegraph.

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Rees, Leslie

Writer and broadcaster who helped foster Australian drama in Sydney from the 1930s.

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Rockwell, T

Writer.

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Roland, Betty

Writer of plays, screenplays, novels, children's books and comics.

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Rose-Soley, Agnes

Writer who published under the pen names Rose de Boheme and Pistachio, and who established the Sydney Lyceum Club.

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Rubinstein, Gillian

Young adult and children's author.

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Seymour, Jasmine

Darug woman who is a primary school teacher and the author of children's books that are based on her cultural heritage. She is a descendant of Yarramundi and Maria Lock.

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Stephens, Alfred

Editor and critic who became literary editor of the Bulletin and later ran his own literary periodical, the Bookfellow.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer who visited Sydney in 1893.

Stewart, Douglas

Poet whose love of the bush and the natural world inspired many of his works.

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Trollope, Anthony

English civil servant and writer who visited Australia, and Sydney, twice during the 1870s and used his experiences in a number of his books.

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Twopeny, Richard Ernest Nowell

Journalist and author who wrote a guide to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, Town Life in Australia, that was published in London in 1883.

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Viidikas, Vicki

Poet and prose writer whose travels in India and Asia framed recurrent themes in her poems.

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Walch, Garnet

Author and dramatist who published over 30 works and wrote a steady stream of burlesques, pantomimes and comedies.

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Weaver, Shane

Street fighter, boxer and sometime writer who portrayed the brutality of 1950s Blacktown.

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Webby, Elizabeth

Scholar and expert in nineteenth-century Australian literature. She is Emeritus Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney.

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White, Patrick

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Nobel Prize-winning novelist, essayist and playwright whose work was frequently set in Sydney and its suburbs.

Wilding, Michael

Critic and prolific writer of novels, essays and short stories.

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Wrightson, Patricia

Children's author and for many years editor of The School Magazine, published by the New South Wales Department of Education.

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May Gibbs c1925

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[PXD 304/vol. 17, 1820]

(Mitchell Library)

A Mother's Offering to her Children by a Lady, long resident in New South Wales, 1841

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.aus-f3158]

...

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[Lone Hand, August 1918, p373]

Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson, poet, solicitor, journalist, war correspondent and soldier c1890

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Mitchell Library)

Bertha E Phelps c1900

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By

Eden Phot. Studios (Melbourne and Sydney)

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a4360048 / P1/1348]

(Mitchell Library)

Charles H Bertie, City Librarian, 1925-1927

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Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

(NSCA CRS 54/129)

Cover of 'Digit Dick and The Lost Opals' by Leslie Rees and illustrated by Hutchings, Lansdowne Press 1971

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By

Contributed By

Private collection

Cover of Pan edition of 'Come in Spinner' 1960

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Contributed By

Private collection

Cover of the first edition of 'My Brilliant Career' by Miles Franklin 1901

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Edinburgh : William Blackwood and Sons, 1901.

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Mitchell Library)

Dorothea Mackellar, writer 1927

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Mitchell Library)

Douglas Stewart 1983

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By

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an14262722-1]

Eleanor Dark's former studio at Varuna 2010

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By

Contributed By

Varuna The National Writers House

Enmore House 1836-1840, described by Rolf Boldrewod

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Contributed By

Internet Archive

[inbadcompanyothe00bolduoft_0343]

(from 'Ancient Sydney', In bad company, and other stories, by Rolf Boldrewood, Macmillan, London 1903, p331)

Entrance to Dymock's Book Arcade with Melocco Bros terrazzo paving, April 1938

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[hood_09148 / Home and Away - 9148]

(Mitchell Library)

Eric Dark, Eleanor Dark and son Mick with Hennesy at Varuna c1938

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Contributed By

Varuna The National Writers House

(Dark Family photo collection, held by the Eleanor Dark Foundation)

Ethel Turner Curlewis, at Avenel, Mosman, New South Wales, 1928

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By

Harold Cazneaux

By kind permission of the

Cazneaux family

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an10998777-34]

Ethel Turner at Girls High School Sydney about 15, 1885

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[PIC P656/65 Album 855c]

Interior of the Mitchell Library reading room July 1942

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[d1_23548 / GPO 1 23548]

(Mitchell Library)

Jack Lindsay, Cambridge 1985

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By

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an14469182-1]

Louisa Anne Meredith seated on stone bench, Tasmania 1858-1863

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By

Bishop Francis Russell Nixon

Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania

State Library of Tasmania

[AUTAS001126186543]

(Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office)

Marjorie Barnard, writer and historian c1936

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a4176008 / P1 / 108]

(Mitchell Library)

Mary Gilmore 1927

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Image courtesy of the

State Library of Victoria

Miles Franklin c1895

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[PX*D 250 (v.1)]

(Mitchell Library)

Miles Franklin c1925

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[PX*D 250 (v.1), 80]

(Mitchell Library)

Miles Franklin's final entry in her diary, 14 September 1954

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[MLMSS 364/Box 2/Item 47]

(Mitchell Library)

Miles Franklin's waratah cup and saucer c1923

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[SAFE/R 230 (a-b)]

(Mitchell Library)

Miles Franklin, Carlton c1950

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[PX*D 250 (v.1)]

(Mitchell Library)

Mrs Anna Maria Bunn c1829

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a5021004 / MIN 443]

(Mitchell Library)

Norman Lindsay 1936

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By

Contributed By

National Portrait Gallery

(Purchased with funds provided by Timothy Fairfax AM 2003)

Page from Miles Franklin's Waratah Book with signatures of artists Pixie O'Harris and Marie McNiven 1950-1951

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

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Portrait of Ada Cambridge c1917-1926

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National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an24862677]

Portrait of Eleanor Dark 1948

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National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-vn4706158]

Portrait of Patrick White, Centennial Park 1983

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National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an14600815-1]

Portrait of Patrick White, Kings Cross, New South Wales 1980

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National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-vn4247784]

Robert Louis Stevenson with his mother, wife and step-daughter at their temporary residence, Darlinghurst, January 1893

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State Library of New South Wales

[a593055 / ON 219/167]

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Ruth Park holding her cat outside her home in Balgowlah, 10 December 1962

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John Aloysius Mulligan

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[nla.pic-an24574247]

Ruth Park writing at home, one of her children under the table, September 1951

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[ON 388, Box 055, Item 084]

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Ruth Park, pre 1947

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State Library of New South Wales

[a1528381 / P1/Park, Ruth]

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Stained glass in the Shakespeare Room, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

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Douglass Baglin

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Private collection

(By kind permission of the Baglin estate)

Sumner Locke Elliott 1938

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National Library of Australia

[The Wireless Weekly, 12 August 1938. p3 via Trove]

The Hero of Coogee Beach 1922

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National Library of Australia

[The School Magazine, Part III for Class VI, May 1 1922, p1 via Trove]

This book may make him a millionaire 1963

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National Library of Australia

[Australian Women's Weekly, 21 August 1963, p8 via Trove]

Tom Keneally speaks 21 August 2012

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Newtown graffiti

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Varuna c2012

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Varuna The National Writers House

Wambrook, Grey St, Carlton NSW c1950

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[PX*D 250 (v.4), 12]

(Mitchell Library)

When It Comes, by Dorothea Mackellar

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[Harper's Monthly Magzine, July 1903, Vol 107, p260]

Zora Bernice May Cross, poet and writer 1927

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Zora Cross 1919

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