James Devaney
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James Martin Devaney was an Australian poet, novelist, and journalist.
, entering the Marist Brothers
juniorate in 1904. He took his vows in 1915. Under the pen-name 'Fabian', he contributed between 1924 and 1943 a nature column to the Brisbane Courier (renamed Courier-Mail after 1933).
Biography
Born in Bendigo, Victoria, Devaney attended St. Joseph's College, Hunters HillSt. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill
St Joseph's College is a Roman Catholic, Secondary, day and boarding school for boys. It is located in Hunters Hill, a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
, entering the Marist Brothers
Marist Brothers
The Marist Brothers, or Little Brothers of Mary, are a Catholic religious order of brothers and affiliated lay people. The order was founded in France, at La Valla-en-Gier near Lyon in 1817 by Saint Marcellin Champagnat, a young French priest of the Society of Mary...
juniorate in 1904. He took his vows in 1915. Under the pen-name 'Fabian', he contributed between 1924 and 1943 a nature column to the Brisbane Courier (renamed Courier-Mail after 1933).
Works
- Fabian: Poems, Melbourne: Lothian, 1923
- The Currency Lass : a Tale of the Convict Days, Sydney: Cornstalk, 1927
- The Vanished Tribes, Sydney: Cornstalk, 1929
- The Girl Oona, and Other Tales of the Australian Blacks, Sydney: Cornstalk Publishing Co., 1929
- The Witch-Doctor, and Other Tales of the Australian Blacks, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1930
- I-rinka the Messenger, and Other Tales of the Australian Blacks, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1930
- Earth Kindred, Melbourne: Frank Wilmot, Coles Library, 1931
- Debutantes: a poem, Hawthorn East, Victoria: The Hawthorn Press, (1939?)
- Dark Road, Hawthorn East, Victoria: Hawthorn Press, 1938,
- Where the Wind Goes, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1939
- Shaw Neilson, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1944
- Washdirt: a novel of old Bendigo, Melbourne: Georgian House, 1946
- Poems, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1950