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Henry Lawson

Australian writer and poet (1867–1922)

For other people named Henry Lawson, see Henry Lawson (disambiguation).

Henry Lawson
Lawson c. 1915
Born	Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (1867-06-17)17 June 1867 Grenfell, New South Wales, Australia
Died	2 September 1922(1922-09-02) (aged 55) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation(s)	Author, poet, balladist
Spouse	Bertha Marie Louise Bredt (m. 1896; div. 1903)
Children	2
Relatives

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922)^[1] was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer".^[2]

A vocal nationalist and republican, Lawson regularly contributed to The Bulletin, and many of his works helped popularise the Australian vernacular in fiction. He wrote prolifically into the 1890s, a

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It was built of bark and poles, and the floor was full of holes
Where each leak in rainy weather made a pool;
And the walls were mostly cracks lined with calico and sacks –
There was little need for windows in the school.

– ‘The Old Bark School’, 1897

A roving childhood

It’s no surprise that reality left its mark on Henry Lawson’s writing style – he’d had a pretty hefty dose of it growing up.

Born on 17 June 1867 in a tent on the goldfields of Grenfell, a town in western NSW, Henry Lawson spent his early years a nomadic victim of his father’s pursuit of gold.

Louisa Lawson and her son Charles William in front of their bark hut, Gulgong area

Nils (Peter) Larsen, a Norwegian seaman, had jumped ship in Melbourne 12 years earlier, lured by stories of the Australian gold rush. In 1866, the same year gold was discovered in Grenfell, he married 18-year-old Louisa Albury. With Henry’s birth the following year, the first of four surviving children, he anglicised his surname to Lawson.

Peter’s search for gold saw the family move often around the Mudgee region until th

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‘Tell it like it is,’ we say today. Henry Lawson claimed that style as his own 118 years ago in his 1897 poem The Writer’s Dream. For a decade before the poem was published, Lawson had already established himself as the voice of ordinary Australians. With his keen, sensitive eye and dry, honest tone, he wrote of the hardships of life in the Australian bush, the plight of the poor in the city, the fight for a republic, the strength and bravery of women, the mateship and larrikinism of men, all ‘for the sake of the truth’. Telling it like it was.

Henry Lawson (1867–1922) was born in a tent in Grenfell, on the New South Wales goldfields, and had a tough childhood, moving around with his family while his father pursued gold, and helping his mother run the family selection in his father’s absence. Shy and partially deaf, Lawson had only three years of formal education and yet, encouraged by his mother, with whom he moved to Sydney following the end of his parents’ marriage, he began writing poetry and short stories.

Lawson’s first poem, A Song of the Republic, was published in Sy