Authors

• Barbara Baynton 1857–1929

  • Bush Studies (1902)

• Louis Becke 1855–1913

  • By Reef and Palm (1894)
  • Rodman the Boatsteerer, and Other Stories (1898)

• Rolf Boldrewood 1826–1915

  Pen name of Thomas Alexander Browne.

  • Old Melbourne Memories (1884)
  • Robbery Under Arms (1888)
  • The Squatter's Dream (1890)

• Guy Boothby 1867–1905

  • A Bid for Fortune, or Dr Nikola's Vendetta (1895)
  • Sheilah McLeod: A Heroine of the Back Blocks (1897)

• Ada Cambridge 1844–1926

  • The Three Miss Kings (1891)
  • Thirty Years in Australia (1903)
  • Sisters (1904)

• Marcus Clarke 1846–1881

  • For the Term of His Natural Life (1874)

• C. J. Dennis 1876–1938

  • The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915)
  • The Glugs of Gosh (1917)
  • Digger Smith (1918)
  • A Book for Kids (1921)

• Edward Dyson 1865–1931

  • The Gold-Stealers (1901)
  • In the Roaring Fifties (1906)

• Edward John Eyre 1815–1901

  • Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia (Volume 1) (1845)

• John Forrest 1847–1918

  • Explorations in Australia (1875)

• Miles Franklin 1879–1954

  Pen name of Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin.

  • My Brilliant Career (1901)
  • Some Everyday Folk and Dawn (1909)

• Joseph Furphy 1843–1912

  • Such Is Life (1903)

• Mary Gaunt 1861–1942

  • The Moving Finger (1895)

• Ernest Giles 1835–1897

  • Australia Twice Traversed (1889)

• Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833–1870

  • Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon (1893)

• Fergus Hume 1859–1932

  • The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886)
  • Madame Midas (1888)

• Henry Kendall 1839–1882

  • The Poems of Henry Kendall (1920)

• Henry Kingsley 1830–1876

  • The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn (1859)
  • The Lost Child (1871)

• Henry Lawson 1867–1922

  • In the Days When the World Was Wide, and Other Verses (1896)
  • While the Billy Boils (1896)
  • On the Track (1900)
  • Over the Sliprails (1900)
  • Verses, Popular and Humorous (1900)
  • Joe Wilson and His Mates (1901)
  • Children of the Bush (1902)
  • The Rising of the Court (stories) (1910)

• Ludwig Leichhardt 1813–1848

  • Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia (1847)

• Catherine Martin 1848–1937

  • An Australian Girl (1890)

• John Oxley 1784–1828

  • Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales (1820)

• A. B. "Banjo" Paterson 1864–1941

  • The Man from Snowy River, and Other Verses (1895)
  • Rio Grande's Last Race, and Other Verses (1902)
  • The Old Bush Songs (1905)
  • An Outback Marriage (1906)
  • Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses (1917)
  • Three Elephant Power, and Other Stories (1917)

• Ethel C. Pedley 1859–1898

  • Dot and the Kangaroo (1899)

• Arthur Phillip 1738–1814

  • The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (1789)

• Rosa Praed 1851–1935

  Pen name of Rosa Caroline Praed (Mrs Campbell Praed).

  • Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land (1915)

• Henry Handel Richardson 1870–1946

  Pen name of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson.

  • The Getting of Wisdom (1910)
  • Australia Felix (1917)

• Steele Rudd 1868–1935

  Pen name of Arthur Hoey Davis.

  • On Our Selection (1899)
  • The Dashwoods (1911)

• Catherine Helen Spence 1825–1910

  • Mr. Hogarth's Will (1865)

• Louis Stone 1871–1935

  • Jonah (1911)

• John McDouall Stuart 1815–1866

  • Explorations in Australia: The Journals of John McDouall Stuart (1864)

• Charles Sturt 1795–1869

  • Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia (1833)

• Watkin Tench 1758–1833

  • A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay (1789)
  • A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson (1793)

• William John Wills 1834–1861

  • Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia (1863)