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    • Brian Matthews (writer)

    Australian author (–)

    Brian Matthews

    Born()27 December
    St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
    Died2 June () (aged&#;85)
    Strathalbyn, South Australia
    OccupationWriter
    LanguageEnglish
    NationalityAustralian

    Brian Matthews (–) was an Australian literary scholar, biographer and short story writer. He is considered Australia's foremost scholar of Henry Lawson and Lawson's mother Louisa.

    Life and career

    Matthews was born in St Kilda, Victoria on 27 December [1] He was educated at De La Salle College and Melbourne University.[2] He took a BA with a major in English and later an MA on Henry Lawson under the direction of Vincent Buckley. After teaching in various schools in the s and s, he moved to Adelaide in to work at Bedford Park Teachers' College, but soon joined the new English Department at Flinders University. He taught English and Australian literature (and in later years, solely the latter) until the ea