Dylan Wielstra

Henry Lawson was a well-known Australian writer who was born on the 17th of June 1867 in a town on the Grenfell gold mines in New South Wales. Henry just lived to 55 years of age and died on the 2nd of September 1922. What he mainly wrote about? Henry Lawson often wrote his stories among an Australian bush setting; he was known as one of the best-known poets and writers of the colonial time and was often called the greatest short story writer. Henry Lawson wrote in a straightforward way using direct, clearly cultured language with short sentences to build his stories. A lot of his stories display generic Australian culture along with Australian humour. His Characters were often shown as the regular Australian larrikin who are usually young men who find pleasure in darker side of humour and don’t take much regard for the political sides of things, they were often mischievous although deep down they don’t intend any wrong.