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Son of feminist Lousia Lawson, Henry Lawson was a prominent radical nationalist and socialist short story writer and poet.

See Brian Matthews, 'Lawson, Henry (1867 - 1922)', Australian Dictionary of Biiography Online.

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Book Sections

• Milner, Andrew, 'Radical Intellectuals: an unacknowledged legislature?', in Verity Burgmann and Jenny Lee (eds), Constructing a culture: a people's history of Australia since 1788, McPhee Gribble/ Penguin Books, Melbourne, 1988, pp. 259-84. PDF Details

Journal Articles

• Plews, Barry, 'Lawson -- lost and found', Bowyang, vol. 3, April 1980, 1980. Image PDF Details
• Prichard, Katharine Susannah, 'Some thoughts on Australian Literature', The Realist, no. 15, 1964, p. 11. PDF Details

Pamphlets

• Henry Lawson Festival, 1960?. Image PDF Details

Poems

• Lawson, Henry, 'Freedom on the wallaby', The Worker [Queensland] (Brisbane), 16 May 1891, p. 8. Image PDF Details

Songs

• Reedy river & Ballad of 1891, Song words, 1891. PDF Details

See also

• 'Foreword', Australian new writing, vol. 1, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, March 1943, pp. 4-6. PDF Details
• 'Tradition and today', Overland, April, Overland, Melbourne, 1957, p. 2. PDF Details
• Diamond, Dick, Eumerella shore, 1955. MP3 Details
• Diamond, Dick, Selections from Reedy river - Cover Image, Diaphon, 1955. PDF Details
• Diamond, Dick, Click go the shears, 1955. MP3 Details
• Diamond, Dick, Widgeegoweera Joe, 1955. MP3 Details
• Diamond, Dick, Reedy river, 1955. MP3 Details
• Diamond, Dick, Old black billy, 1955. MP3 Details
• Diamond, Dick, Banks of the Condamine, 1955. MP3 Details
• Diamond, Dick, Reedy lagoon, 1955. MP3 Details
• Diamond, Dick, Ballad of '91, 1955. MP3 Details
• Diamond, Dick, Selections from Reedy river - Liner Notes, 1955. PDF Details
• Dick, Diamond, Four little Johnny cakes, 1955. MP3 Details
• Palmer, Vance, 'The future of Australian literature', The Age, Saturday, 9 February 1935. PDF Details
• Prichard, Katharine Susannah, 'Anti-Capitalist core of Australian literature', Communist Review, August, 1943, pp. 106-7. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• Ross. Lloyd, 'Writers and social progress', The Australain observer, July 26, 1947, pp. 111-112. PDF Details
• Waten, Judah, 'Australian literature in 1962', Realist Writer (Melbourne), no. 12, 1963, pp. 26-8. PDF Details