Faces in the Street

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Lulu.com, 2006 - Fiction - 585 pages
She 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."

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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
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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
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504
Biographies People in the story or mentioned in it
515
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