Faces in the StreetShe struggled to get women the vote. Her son was Australia's most famous writer. They drove each other crazy. Meticulously researched 575-page Aussie historical novel on set mostly in the 1890s. It shows the world in which Louisa Lawson & Henry Lawson and their circle of radical friends lived: revolution, poverty, love affairs, madness, drunkenness, sedition, terrorism, passionate hopes, and friendships with some of Australia's most remarkable people. Much historical material here doesn't appear in their biographies. Read on + glossary. "Good stuff - experientially, politically, anecdotally, stylistically, narratively, romantically, alcoholically. What more can one say?" Douglas Houston, PhD, co-editor of the Oxford Good Fiction Guide Note: Lulu's TEEN rating = "suitable for persons ages 13+," not "teenage book." |
Contents
2 3 4 5 On the wallaby back o Bourke | 1 |
Louisa Lawson and young Henry come to Sydney | 12 |
Haymarket Bombing Louisa accepts a lifechanging offer | 28 |
The Republican Riot Henry is published | 38 |
Louisa founds a newspaper | 52 |
Henry meets Orpheus Myron McAdoo | 62 |
Henry decides to assert his independence | 72 |
Henry meets Mary Cameron a visit to the slums | 82 |
Luncheon with the Quong Tarts | 310 |
The shame of going back | 321 |
Seven miles from Sydney and 1000 miles from care | 331 |
Another passage to New Zealand | 341 |
Mary gets hitched Mangamaunu | 349 |
Nortonian skirmish Wellingtonian earthquake | 356 |
Henry lands a cushy lurk | 363 |
Norton christens Parliament Henry misbehaves | 370 |
A famous stranger in The Domain | 93 |
Louisa sends Henry to Western Australia | 102 |
Henry vainly waits to hear from Mary Dr Keating | 114 |
Adolphus Taylor The Mudgee Camel | 121 |
Louisa and Henry gain advancement | 132 |
If blood should stain the wattle | 142 |
The Active Service Brigade | 150 |
Henry drinks with Jack Lang and meets Edwin Brady | 158 |
So youre back from up the country Mr Lawson | 169 |
How Henry came to be in the Outback | 178 |
Billy Lane and the Workingmans Paradise Petries bomb | 188 |
A game of billiards with the royal stranger | 195 |
Hard Cash in Wests Bush | 202 |
The Royal Tar sails to Paradise SS Aramac bombed | 209 |
Rejected Benno the Blockboy does well for himself | 218 |
Henry goes to Maoriland and an ASB frolic | 226 |
Billy McLean shot once a jolly swagman | 235 |
Rough time at the Edison Kinetoscope | 244 |
A victory for women Henrys first book | 253 |
An evening with Mark Twain | 263 |
Henry meets Bertha Bredt and skylarks with Jacky Moses | 275 |
Trouble for Bertha | 288 |
A pound to pay the parson | 295 |
When your pants begin to | 301 |
1 | 371 |
The Dawn and Dusk Club Mr Miles Franklin | 379 |
Louisa injured Lawsons baby departure for England | 387 |
Henry Lawsons final Wisitation | 395 |
Henry and Bertha in England Louisas struggle | 402 |
Life at Charlton meeting with a Gypsy Berthas tragedy | 409 |
Scurrilous and criminal rumours Norton in court | 420 |
Henry and Bertha reconciled Charlie Lawson goes berserk | 427 |
12 | 433 |
The Lawsons and Gilmores escape England together | 436 |
Henry races to be with Hannah Quong Tart bashed | 447 |
Deep trouble at Fairy Bower Lawsons judicial separation | 455 |
How the gold bug dropped | 465 |
Henry Lawsons last faces in the street | 474 |
Glossary More than 900 words and terms defined | 485 |
28 | 504 |
Biographies People in the story or mentioned in it | 515 |
38 | 538 |
52 | 544 |
82 | 554 |
93 | 562 |
370 | 565 |
Common terms and phrases
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