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Joe Wilson and His Mates (1901) is a collection of short stories by Australian poet and author Henry Lawson. It was released in hardback by William Blackwood in 1901 when Lawson was living in England, and features one of the author's better known stories in "The Loaded Dog". The collection contains twenty stories which are mostly reprinted from a variety of newspaper and magazine sources, with several published here for the first time. A reviewer in The Chronicle (Adelaide) noted that the collection is good in parts. "Joe Wilson and His Mates will bear a good deal of winnowing. On the other…mehr

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Joe Wilson and His Mates (1901) is a collection of short stories by Australian poet and author Henry Lawson. It was released in hardback by William Blackwood in 1901 when Lawson was living in England, and features one of the author's better known stories in "The Loaded Dog". The collection contains twenty stories which are mostly reprinted from a variety of newspaper and magazine sources, with several published here for the first time. A reviewer in The Chronicle (Adelaide) noted that the collection is good in parts. "Joe Wilson and His Mates will bear a good deal of winnowing. On the other hand, when Mr. Lawson gets hold of a strong incident, as in "The Babies in the Bush", the power of imagination tells, and the reader is affected by the author's own feeling. It is an old truism that a writer who feels what he says will always arouse in some degree a corresponding feeling in others, and Mr. Lawson (being a poet) is a writer in whose work the emotional touch is rarely wanting when it is needed." In The Record (Emerald Hill) the reviewer was impressed with Lawson's characters: "Lawson's men are men of flesh and blood; his landscapes, skies, atmosphere, are vivid and real; his broad humour is racy of the soil. He has brought a strong, unconventional mind, and a gift of intense expression to a set of new conditions and an unknown land. And, for us, it is our own land. In the softening of harsh tints too we detect Lawson looking back through the golden after-glow of memory and thinking lovingly of the homeland. He has sublime confidence in the Australian bushman."
Autorenporträt
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian author and bush poet. Lawson, along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, is one of the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period, and he is frequently referred to as Australia's "greatest short story writer". Lawson, a passionate nationalist and republican, frequently contributed to The Bulletin, and many of his works helped popularize the Australian vernacular in literature. He wrote prolifically until the 1890s, when his output dropped due to battles with drinking and mental illness. He was once poor and spent time in Darlinghurst Gaol and psychiatric hospitals. Lawson, who died in 1922 from a brain haemorrhage, was the first Australian writer to receive a state funeral. He was the son of Louisa Lawson, a poet, publisher, and feminist. Henry Lawson was born on June 17, 1867, at a settlement on the Grenfell goldfields of New South Wales. His father was a miner from Norway named Niels Hertzberg Larsen. Niels Larsen traveled to sea at the age of 21 and arrived in Melbourne in 1855 to join the gold rush with partner William Henry John Slee. Lawson's parents met in the Pipeclay goldfields (now Eurunderee, Mudgee). Niels and Louisa Albury (1848 1920) married on July 7, 1866, when he was 32 and she was 18. At Henry's birth, the family surname was Anglicised, and Niels became Peter Lawson.