Henry Lawson

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the bestknown Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australias greatest short story writer. He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist Louisa Lawson.

Henry Lawson was bornJune 1867 in a town on the Grenfell goldfields of New South Wales. His father was Niels Hertzberg Larsen, a Norwegianborn miner from Tromya near Arendal. Niels Larsen went to sea atand arrived in Melbourne in 1855 to join the gold rush, along with partner William Henry John Slee. Lawsons parents met at the goldfields of Pipeclay . Niels and Louisa Albury married onJuly 1866 when he wasand she 18. On Henrys birth, the family surname was Anglicised and Niels became Peter Lawson. The newly married couple were to have an unhappy marriage. Louisa, after familyraising, took a significant part in womens movements, and edited a womens paper called The Dawn . She also published her sons first volume, and around 1904 brought out a volume of her own, Dert and Do, a simple story of 18,000 words. In 1905 she collected and published her own verses, The Lonely Crossing and other Poems. Louisa likely had a strong influence on her sons literary work in its earliest

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