Australian Digital Collections

Welcome to the University of Sydney Library's collection of Australian Literary and Historical Texts. The texts are encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative's guidelines for text encoding and interchange. The collection has been growing since 1997 with funding from a number of national grants and institutional collaborations...More

Introduction by Elizabeth Webby

This collection of Australian fiction, poetry, plays and non-fictional works, which has been put together from a number of different sources, ranging from a seventeenth-century Portuguese account of the discovery of Australia to the novels which make up Henry Handel Richardson's trilogy The Fortunes of Richard Mahony... More

The Australian Digital Collections comprise the following special interest collections which may be browsed and searched separately.

collections

• The Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project

  

  Literary emergence in the 1840's.

• Australian Federation Full Text Database

  

  National debates and auxiliary writings of the 1890's, introduced by Helen Irving.

• Australian Poets. Brennan, Harford, Slessor

  

  Three major twentieth century poets, introduced by John Trantor.

• Classic Texts in Australian and International Taxation Law

  

  R.W. Parsons seminal work and other texts.

• First Fleet and Early Settlement

  

  Manuscripts and published journals of the First Fleet.

• The John Anderson Archive

  

  Manuscripts from the Archives.

• Joseph Henry Maiden Botanical Texts

  

  Pioneering botanical texts and images.

• Journals of Inland Exploration

  

  Major encounters with the new geography.