Joe Wilson and His Mates
Henry Lawson
Sydney University Press
ISBN:
1920897356
In 1900 Lawson moved to England where he wrote some of his finest stories in The Country I Come From as well as publishing some earlier works in Joe Wilson and His Mates (1902)Joe Wilson and His Mates includes:
- Joe Wilson's Courtship
- Brighten's Sister In Law
- Water Them Geraniums
- A Double Buggy at Lahey's Creek
- The Golden Grave
- The Chinaman's Ghost
- The Loaded Dog
- Poisonous Jimmy Gets Left
- The Ghostly Door
- A Wild Irishman
- The Babies in the Bush
- A Bush Dancer
- The Buck-Jumper
- Jimmy Grimshaw's Wooing
- At Dead Dingo
- Telling Mrs Baker
- A Hero in Dingo Scrubs
- The Little World Left Behind
Henry Lawson (1867-1922) was born and raised on the gold fields of Glenfell and Gulgong in New South Wales. He became known as a bush poet and short story writer following his work as journalist for the Queensland radical newspaper the Boomerang where his republican and socialist views found expression. He established his reputation as the people's poet and story teller. However, he lived an itinerant life with and without his family, living in Western Australia, New Zealand and England. On his return to Sydney in 1902 his alcoholism and mental illness increased, leading to his separation from his wife and children.
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