1891 in Australian literature
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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1891.
For an overview of world literature see 1891 in literature.
See also: 1890 in Australian literature, 1891 in Australia, 1892 in Australian literature.
Books
- Jennings Carmichael – Hospital Children: sketches of life and character in the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
- Charles Haddon Chambers – Thumb-Nail Sketches of Australian Life
- Fergus Hume – Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage
- Hume Nisbet
- The Black Drop
- The Savage Queen: A Romance of the Natives of Van Dieman's Land
Short stories
- Mary Gaunt – "The Yanyilla Steeplechase"
- Louisa Lawson – "A Bush Experience"
- A. B. Paterson
- "The Cast-Iron Canvasser"
- "His Masterpiece"
- Campbell Praed – "The Bunyip"
- Price Warung
- "John Price's Bar of Steel"
- "The Liberation of the First Three"
Poetry
- Barcroft Boake
- Victor J. Daley – "Lachesis"
- George Essex Evans
- "An Australian Symphony"
- The Repentance of Magdalene Despar and Other Poems
- Henry Lawson
- Louisa Lawson – "A Dream"
- Harriet Anne Patchett Martin – Coo-ee : Tales of Australian Life by Australian Ladies (edited)
- J. B. O'Hara – Songs of the South
- A. B. Paterson
- Alice Werner – "Bannerman of Dandenong: An Australian Ballad"
Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1891 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
- 9 April – Lesbia Harford, poet (died 1927)
Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1891 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.