*Ø* Aussie national poet: Henry Lawson
June 17, 1867 Henry Lawson, Australian's best known writer of short stories and ballad-like verse and noted for his realistic portrayals of bush life, born in Grenfell, New South Wales.
His mother was the pioneer feminist, Louisa Lawson (February 17, 1848 - August 12, 1920), feminist editor of Dawn: A Journal for Australian Women (a "paper in which women may express their own opinions on political and social questions").
When female Australian British subjects (with the glaring exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act (June 16, 1902), Louisa Lawson was hailed by her political sisters as "The Mother of Womanhood Suffrage". Unlike many suffragists and feminists of her day, she did not come from a privileged background but from the shanties of rural Australia. Dawn was a monthly journal that lasted for 17 years, employed a staff of ten and mostly published the writings of Henry Lawson’s remarkable mother.
Henry lived much of his life in poverty and alcoholic despair, but even during his lifetime he was acknowledged as a poetic genius, much-loved by the Australian people who until recently had a strong poetic culture ...
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June 17, 1867 Henry Lawson, Australian's best known writer of short stories and ballad-like verse and noted for his realistic portrayals of bush life, born in Grenfell, New South Wales.
His mother was the pioneer feminist, Louisa Lawson (February 17, 1848 - August 12, 1920), feminist editor of Dawn: A Journal for Australian Women (a "paper in which women may express their own opinions on political and social questions").
When female Australian British subjects (with the glaring exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act (June 16, 1902), Louisa Lawson was hailed by her political sisters as "The Mother of Womanhood Suffrage". Unlike many suffragists and feminists of her day, she did not come from a privileged background but from the shanties of rural Australia. Dawn was a monthly journal that lasted for 17 years, employed a staff of ten and mostly published the writings of Henry Lawson’s remarkable mother.
Henry lived much of his life in poverty and alcoholic despair, but even during his lifetime he was acknowledged as a poetic genius, much-loved by the Australian people who until recently had a strong poetic culture ...
This is just a snippet of today's stories. Read all about today in folklore, historical oddities, inspiration and alternatives, with more links, at the Wilson's Almanac Book of Days, every day. Click today's date when you're there.
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