Randolph Bedford ( June 27 [3] 1868 - July 7, 1941 ) - Australian poet, prose writer, short story master, statesman. Member of the Australian Labor Party.
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Biography
Bedford was born in Camperdown, Sydney . His father, Alfred Bedford, once came to Australia from Yorkshire, England, and in 1859 got a job as a house painter.
Randolph Bedford was educated at Newtown State School. At the age of 14, he worked at the Sydney Law Office as an office boy. [3] At age 16, he worked in the Western District of New South Wales , shooting rabbits. Then he worked for a whole year as a clerk in the entreprise of Edmund Daggan Wagga-Wagga (Wagga Wagga). [3]
Literary activity
Bedford's first short story was accepted into The Bulletin magazine in 1886. In 1888, he worked for some time in Argus magazine (Broken Hill, NSW) in ( Broken Hill (Australia) , New South Wales), and since 1889 he worked in Melbourne for about two years.
Later, Randolph Bedford wrote poems, short stories and essays during his journey through Australia in search of deposits. From 1901 to 1904, Bedford stayed in Europe and wrote a series of travel sketches there. In 1916, sketches were compiled and published under the title “Explorations in Civilization. His first novel, True Eyes and the Whirlwind, appeared in London in 1903, and his novel Snare of Strength was published by two years later.
Three of his short novels appeared later in bookstalls. These are the novels "Billy Pagan", "Mining Engineer", Billy The Silver Star (1917) and "Aladdin and the Boss Cockie" (1919). The latest novel was adapted into a play about four acts. In 1904, Randolph Bedford published a collection of his poems, but the disassembled sheets were burned during a fire in the printing house. Only six copies remained intact. A few years before his death, Bedford stated that he did not regret burning the collection, as some of his poems were written in his early youth, when he was preparing a selection of poems for publication, but did not publish them. Among his other published stories are Fourteen Fathoms by Quetta Rock and The Language of Animals.
Together with Australian writers Henry Lawson and Victor Daly, Randolph Bedford was a member of the elite Dawn and Dusk Club.
Political career
In 1917, Bedford joined the Queensland Legislative Council in Queensland. [4] In 1923, he was elected a candidate for the Legislative Assembly of Warrego. [four]
Bedford died in 1941 and was cremated at Mount Thompson crematorium crematorium. [five]
Bibliography
Novels
- True Eyes and the Whirlwind (1903)
- The Snare of Strength (1905)
- Sops of Wine (1909)
- Billy Pagan Mining Engineer (1911)
- The Mates of Torres (1911)
- The Lady of the Pickup (1911)
- The Silver Star (1917)
- Aladdin and the Boss Cockie (1919)
Articles
- Explorations in Civilization (1914)
Autobiography
- Naught to Thirty-Three (1944)
Links
Searle, Percival (1949). "Bedford, Randolph . " Dictionary of Australian Biographies . Sydney: Angus and Robertson.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Internet Speculative Fiction Database - 1995.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Rodney G. Boland. Bedford, George Randolph (1868–1941) . Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 7 241–242. Melbourne University Press (1979). Date of treatment August 24, 2007.
- ↑ 1 2 Former Members . Parliament of Queensland (2015). Date of treatment February 15, 2015.
- ↑ Family Notices. , Brisbane: National Library of Australia (July 9, 1941), S. 12. Date of access February 15, 2015.