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Desmond Byrne. Australian Writers

Australian Writers

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[p i] AUSTRALIAN WRITERS

BY. DESMOND BYRNE

[p iii] CONTENTS

[p 1] INTRODUCTION

[p 29] MARCUS CLARKE

[p 90] HENRY KINGSLEY

[p 131] ADA CAMBRIDGE

[p 159] ADAM LINDSAY GORDON

[p 189] ROLF BOLDREWOOD

[p 229] MRS. CAMPBELL PRAED

[p 260] TASMA

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Desmond Byrne

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Journalism, the early occupation of so many eminent men of letters, has usually been abandoned as soon as the young writer has once shown exceptional ability as a novelist. This rule was not followed by Clarke. As the leader in his day of the journalistic class, who, as the late Mr. Francis Adams has said with substantial truth, still ‘stand almost entirely for the conscious literary culture of the whole Antipodean community,’ he held a position which would have unfavourably affected the literary tone and ambition of a still more energetic and original writer.

He had no predecessors in the special work he elected to do; he had to establish his own standard of achievement; and he was without the constant stimulus which intercourse with literary society, such as that [p 40] of London, affords. The demands of the newspapers were then, as now, more for purely ephemeral criticism or narrative than for matter worthy to rank as permanent literature.

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