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Courage a Grace

A Biography of Dame Mary Gilmore

W. H. Wilde

Official biography of the famous Australian poet, patriot, pioneer radical and social reformer.

About this Title

Official biography of the famous Australian poet, patriot, pioneer radical and social reformer.

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. The End and the Beginning; 2. Childhood and Adolescence 1865-1882; 3. Teaching 1882-1895; 3. Mary Cameron and Henry Lawson 1890-1895; 5. William Lane and New Australia 1890-1895; 6. Cosme, Will Gilmore and Billy 1896-1902; 7. The Red Page--Marri'd 1903-1910; 8. The Birth of the Women's Page 1908-1911; 9. Sydney and the Bookfellow--the First World War--The Passionate Heart 1911-1918; 10 Goulburn--The Death of Henry Lawson--Hound of the Road 1919-1923; 11. The Tilted Cart--The Fellowship of Australian Writers--The Break with the Worker 1925-1930; 12. The Wild Swan--The Rue Tree--Under the Wilgas 1930-1933; 13. Old Days: Old Ways--More Recollections--Dame of the British Empire 1934-1937; 14. Battlefields--The Second World War--'No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest' 1938-1940; The Disinherited--The Crisis of 1942--The War Years in Sydney 1941-1944; 16. The Deaths of Will and Billy--The End of the Second World War--Selected Verses 1945-1948; 17. The Communist Bogey of the Early 1950s--The Tribune Connection 1949-1953; 18. Fourteen Men--'Dame Mary's fabrications'--The Dobell Portrait 1954-1958; 19. 'Here at this last I can come home' 1959-1962; Bibliography; Index

About the Author

W. H. Wilde was Associate Professor of English at the Royal Military College, Duntroon until his retirement in 1985 when he has been Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Department of English, Australian Defence Force Academy. His books include Henry Kendall (1876), Australian Literature to 1900 (with B. G. Andrews), Letters of Mary Gilmore (with T. Inglis Moore, 1980) and the Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (with Joy Hooton and Barry Andrews, 1985).

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