Australia

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I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.

Dorothea Mackellar

Core of My Heart

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Topic

Australia

Author

Dorothea Mackellar

Source

Core of My Heart

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Mackellar, Dorothea. "Core of My Heart." The Spectator, 5 Sept. 1908.

Current Citation

Mackellar, Dorothea. "My Country." My Country and Other Poems. Viking, 1988.

And the sun sank again on the grand Australian bush-the nurse and tutor of eccentric minds, the home of the weird, and of much that is different from things in other lands.

Henry Lawson

The Bush Undertaker

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Topic

Australia

Author

Henry Lawson

Source

The Bush Undertaker

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Lawson, Henry. "The Bush Undertaker." The Antipodean, 1892.

Current Citation

Lawson, Henry. "The Bush Undertaker." The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories. Penguin Books, 1986.

We are dealing with an exceptionally astute and dangerous man...one of the most unscrupulous rascals that Australia has ever evolved—and for a young country it has turned out some very finished types.

Sherlock Holmes

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

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Australia

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

Medium

Short story Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax." London: The Strand Magazine/New York: The American Magazine, 1911.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax." His Last Bow: Some Later Reminiscences. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012.