E.J. Brady

E.J. Brady (1869-1952). Courtesy Matilda.

Edwin James Brady (7 August 1869 – 22 August 1952) was an Australian poet.

Life

Brady and Henry Lawson at Mallacoota writers' colony. Courtesy Mallacoota Arts Council

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Brady was born at Carcoar, New South Wales, and was educated both in the United States and at Sydney. He worked as a wharf clerk, a farmer, and journalist, and edited both rural and city newspapers.

He was a friend and correspondent of Sir Edmund Barton, the first Australian prime minister, and helped to save Henry Lawson's life in 1910.

He established a writers' and artists' colony at [[Mallacoota, Victoria, in 1909, and lived there until his death at the age of 83.

Publications

Poetry

• The Ways of Many Waters. Sydney: Bulletin, 1899; Melbourne: T.C. Lothian / London: Walter Scott, 1909.
• The Earthen Floor. Grafton, NSW: Grip, 1902.
• Bushland Ballads. Melbourne: Thomas C. Lothian, 1910.
• Bells and Hobbles. Melbourne: George Robertson, 1911.
• The House of the Winds. London: Harrap, 1919.
• Wardens of the Seas: Poems. London: Endeavour Press, 1933.

Non-fiction

• Sydney Harbour. Sydney: Builder Printing Works, 1903.
• Sydney: The commercial capital of the Commonwealth. Sydney: Builder Printing Works, 1904.
• River Rovers. Melbourne: George Robertson, 1911.
• Picturesque Port Philip. Melbourne & Sydney: George Robertson, 1911.
• The King's Caravan: Across Australia in a wagon. London: Edward Arnold, 1911.
• Australia Unlimited. Melbourne: George Robertson, 1918.
• The Land of the Sun. London: Edward Arnold, 1924.
• The Overlander: Prince's highway. Melbourne: Ramsay, 1926.
• Two Frontiers. Sydney: Frank Johnson, 1944.

Juvenile

• Tom Pagdin, Pirate. Sydney: NSW Bookstall, 1911.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

See also

• List of Australian poets

External links

Poems

• "Twofold Bay"
• Edwin James Brady at PoemHunter (9 poems).
• Edwin James Brady at AllPoetry (33 poems).
• E.J. Brady (1869-1952) in the Australian Poetry Library (88 poems).

About

• Brady, Edwin James (1869–1952) in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
• E.J. Brady in the Oxford Companion to Australian Literature].