Australian Literary Quiz #1 – Fellowship of Australian Writers New South Wales

Australian Literary Quiz #1

Test your knowledge of Australian Literary History…

The month and year the Fellowship of Australian Writers was founded

November 1928

Writer and feminist whose first novel began her brilliant career

Miles Franklin

Poet whose signature look was a handlebar moustache

Henry Lawson

A long-running influential magazine known as the bushman’s bible

The Bulletin

One of the foundation members of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, a Dame whose portrait was painted by William Dobell in 1957

Dame Mary Gilmore

Pseudonym of a poetic Catholic priest whose prose included the phrase, “We’ll all be rooned”

John O’Brien (Father Patrick Hartigan)

In 1905 penned the poem ‘Core of My Heart’, later to be known as ‘My Country’

Dorothea Mackellar

Poet, journalist, solicitor and Boer War correspondent, whose pen name was taken from a racehorse owned by his family

Banjo Paterson

Pseudonym of Mrs H.R. Curlewis, popular children’s author, with an Australian family flavour

Ethel Turner

The Dawn and Dusk Club was formed around 1898 in Sydney. What was its purpose?

Bohemian social club for Australian writers formed in Sydney by Victor Daley. The writers met for ‘drinks and camaraderie’.

No prizes – just see how many questions you can answer. Expand each question using the + button to see the answer.