Henry Lawson remains one of the best known Australian writers with his poetry and prose still widely quoted. His images are those used by Australians to depict the kind of country they admire.
Henry Lawson’s parents brought him to the Gulgong area when he was an infant and he spent his childhood and early teens in locations between Gulgong and Mudgee. The scenes and experiences of these years influenced Lawson enormously. They appear, with vivid clarity, in many of his works.
The Henry Lawson Centre is a museum dedicated to Lawson’s life and literary works, and to the family friends, literary characters and places that filled his years.
The Henry Lawson Centre takes the visitor through the phases of the writer’s life, from his birth in 1867 to his death in 1922, through a series of illustrated wall displays. These pay special attention to Lawson’s concerns and his influence on the affairs of the day: justice for workers, the republic, the plight of the poor and the emancipation of women.
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