WATER THEM GERANIUMS by HENRY LAWSON (PT 1)
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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A young man moving with his wife to a bleak shack in the Australian Outback begins to see the errors in his past actions that brought them to this point. An excellent tale of the reality of life in the unforgiving outback from Australia's legendary poet and short story writer Henry Lawson.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales this is your host John |
| 0:34.3 | Haggadorn it's been a while since we've done a Henry Lawson story and whenever we do |
| 0:38.7 | one we give a shout out to all our friends from the land down under, who are especially big Henry Lawson |
| 0:43.7 | fans. I'll give those of you who aren't familiar with Henry Lawson a little |
| 0:47.0 | background on him. Henry Lawson, born 1867, died 1922, was one of the best-known Australian poets and short story writers of the colonial period. |
| 0:58.0 | He was born in New South Wales, which was called Pipe Clay when his parents met during the gold rush. |
| 1:03.2 | His mother was the poet and feminist Louisa Lawson. |
| 1:06.4 | His father, a miner, was born in Norway. |
| 1:09.2 | Due to chronic ear infections, Henry became completely deaf, relying on reading to complete his education. |
| 1:16.2 | He particularly enjoyed the works of Charles Dickens, Frederick Marriott, and Brett Hart. |
| 1:21.6 | And I can't tell you how many writers were inspired by Brett Hart. I just saw that in writing a couple of weeks ago. |
| 1:27.0 | Lawson's first poem, A Song of the Republic, was published in 1887. His most successful collection was published in |
| 1:34.8 | 1896 titled, While the Billy Boils, which is credited with reinventing Australian realism |
| 1:42.1 | in its raw and sharp style. |
| 1:45.0 | Lawson wrote extensively about the |
| 1:46.5 | Australian Outback, though he spent most of his life in its cities. |
| 1:50.4 | In his advancing years, Lawson became increasingly withdrawn, depressed and poor, yet he remains |
| 1:56.2 | one of Australia's greatest short story writers, along with contemporary author Banjo Patterson. The most popular |
| 2:03.0 | Henry Lawson story we've ever done here, popular meaning the most |
| 2:06.4 | listeners, was Brighton's sister-in-law. |
| 2:09.0 | If you've never heard that, or even if you just want to hear that one again, |
| 2:12.0 | just search 1001 Classic Short. Or even if you just want to hear that one again. Just search |
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