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	Joseph Furphy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Furphy September 26, 1843–September 13, 1912, is widely regarded as the "Father of the Australian novel".
		Furphy's popularity may have influenced the usage of the Australian slang word furphy, meaning a "tall story".
		At times the prose is difficult to understand because of the use of Australian vernacular and Furphy's attempt to convey the accents of Scottish and Chinese personalities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Furphy (287 words)

	Evatt Foundation: Publication: "Temper democratic: Bias Australian" - 19 January 2002
		Furphy was perhaps the most authentic of the writers who fashioned a national literature in the closing years of the nineteenth century, one that drew on distinctive local forms to affirm popular values and aspirations.
		Furphy had to cut large segments out of his manuscript before it was published in 1903, and offered a book-length excision to the labour press as a contribution to "the plate of Democracy".
		Furphy was no Mazzini, though his faith in patriotism as a force for harmony and progress had much in common with the prophet of liberal nationalism.
	evatt.labor.net.au /publications/papers/18.html (6200 words)

	Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Furphy Place is one of 23 charming cul de sacs located in Garran, this one running off Brereton Street.
		Joseph Furphy was born at Yering in the upper valley, Victoria, the son of Protestant Irish bounty emigrants who arrived in Australia in 1841.
		It was Joseph's older brother, John, who invented the Furphy water-cart, which was the means the expression ‘furphy’ came into Australian English.) Joseph Furphy gained his education at a small school in Kyneton, and subsequently worked on his father’s farm before trying his luck on the goldfields.
	www.garranvillage.org.au /Furphy.htm (371 words)

	New theory on the origin of the slang term FURPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The term "furphy" is an Australian slang word that has entered the mainstream of our language so commonly that it has been legitimised and appears in respected dictionaries with no reference to it being "slang" at all.
		But the name Tom Collins was actually a pseudonym, and it became known that the writer's real name was Joseph Furphy (who was actually the brother of John, the earlier mentioned foundry owner).
		Joseph's Furphy's use of a pseudonym was in itself a wonderful furphy.
	www.datagen.com.au /furphy.html (557 words)

	Joseph Funk - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Joseph Funk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Joseph Funk was born April 6, 1778, in Berks County, Pennsylvania, the son of Henry and Barbara (Showalter) Funk, and a grandson of Bishop Henry Funck.
		As a boy, Joseph moved with his parents to Rockingham County, Virginia, and spent the rest of his life there.
		Joseph Funk was a member of the Mennonite Church.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Joseph-Funk.html (354 words)

	The joke's on us - smh.com.au
		In contrast, Furphy was a truthful man. He was capable of blindness and insensitivity in dealing with some of the people who were close to him.
		Furphy's parents were among the early settlers of Port Phillip and slowly improved their fortune, first as part of a Scottish enclave in the Yarra Valley and then at Kyneton, central Victoria.
		Furphy himself bridged that painful and unnecessary gap in Australian history between the life of the mind and manual skill, between education and training.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/07/25/1059084198811.html (1263 words)

	New generation finds Joseph Furphy - Books - www.theage.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Andrew Furphy, Joseph's great-grandnephew, says he commissioned the memorial and the play because for a long time he had been feeling "pretty guilty" about the neglected birthplace of Such Is Life.
		Joseph, who worked as a mechanic for his brother for 20 years, was more of an eccentric, a likeable, easy-going man of strong egalitarian socialist beliefs who was fond of a drink or two.
		Furphy and Sons; his son Adam is the fourth-generation Furphy to run it, and Andrew's daughter Bianca also works there.
	www.theage.com.au /news/Books/New-generation-finds-Joseph-Furphy/2005/03/11/1110417688940.html (1079 words)

	About FAWWA
		Joseph hoped to the end to return to the writing which had already brought into being the novels Such is Life, Rigby's Romance and The Buln-Buln and the Brolga together with numerous poems which had been published in The Bulletin.
		Joseph's grand-daughter Emily Main describes the building of what is now known as Tom Collins House - 'the boys, that is my father and Sam, helped him put in the stumps, but Joseph designed the wooden building himself, constructing sections of the timber framework on the ground.
		In 1949 Samuel Furphy gave the cottage to the Fellowship on the condition that it be maintained as a memorial of his father.
	www.fawwa.iinet.net.au /tomcollins.htm (758 words)

	Furphy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The word is possibly derived from two sources equally: the popular 19th century Australian author, Joseph Furphy (1843-1913) and water carts made by a company owned by his brother John: J.
		Many Furphy carts were used to transport water to Australian Army personnel during World War I.
		The carts, with "J. Furphy and Sons" written large on their tanks, became popular as gathering places where soldiers could exchange gossip, rumours and fanciful tales.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Furphy (173 words)

	Celebrating the original larrikin - theage.com.au
		Furphy is the forerunner of H.G. and Roy, even of Dame Edna.
		Furphy's brother, John, ran a successful foundry in Shepparton and it was John who invented and marketed the legendary Furphy Water Cart.
		Joseph Furphy tried his luck as a selector but lost his land.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/07/24/1058853193613.html (1731 words)

	Joseph Frye - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Joseph Frye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Joseph Frye, a renowned military leader from Colonial Maine, obtained the rank of General in the British Army after serving his nation exemplarily in the Seven Years' War.
		His namesake, a small settlement entitled "Fryeburg", was established as a result of the territorial gains he and his company won during that conflict.
		Joseph Frye is best known for the role he played in expanding the colonial frontier into both formerly French lands and formerly Abenaki lands.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Joseph-Frye.html (176 words)

	Joseph Furphy -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The novels of Australian author Joseph Furphy combine an acute sense of local Australian life and color with the eclectic philosophy and literary ideas of a self-taught workingman.
		Furphy is also known by the pen name Tom Collins.
		In 1871, when he became chief of the Nez Percé Indian tribe in the American Northwest, Joseph led his people in an unsuccessful resistance to the takeover of their lands by white settlers.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9035696?tocId=9035696 (718 words)

	POST Newspapers Online: Headline News
		The house was built over two years from 1907 by Sam and Mattie Furphy with the help of Sam's father, Joseph Furphy, who, under the pen name Tom Collins, wrote the Australian classic Such is Life (1903).
		The University of WA was persuaded to chip in $10,000 after it was reminded that Sam Furphy, Mattie's husband, donated £1500 to the university for the preservation of Australian works of art.
		Joseph Furphy's invaluable letters documented the building of the house, its fireplaces, cellar and rooms.
	www.postnewspapers.com.au /20050423/news/019.shtml (780 words)

	Matilda: Joseph Furphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Joseph Furphy, author of the Australian classic Such is Life, is being commemorated in the Victorian country town of Shepparton with the unveiling of a statue in his honour.
		In addition, a collected set of his works is due for publication from Halstead Classics, as is the biography of the writer by Miles Franklin.
		It would appear that Furphy is in for a long-overdue re-appraisal of his works.
	www.middlemiss.org /weblog/archives/matilda/2005/03/joseph_furphy.html (86 words)

	Joseph Furphy Biography / Biography of Joseph Furphy Main Biography
		Joseph Furphy (1843-1912) was an Australian writer whose reputation rests on "Such Is Life," a major novel that gives accurate representations of the emerging national character and customs in colonial Australia's "age of gusto," the 1890s.
		Joseph Furphy was born at Yering, a rural district outside Melbourne, on Sept. 26, 1843.
		At 23 Furphy bought a threshing machine and at harvesttime took it through wheat areas.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-joseph-furphy (248 words)

	SUCH IS LIFE by Tom Collins
		Furphy is a good old name with the vital red in it; and Furphy was a red man, blue-eyed, a ruddy, rufous man...
		Joseph Furphy, whose pseudonym was "Tom Collins", was born on 26th September i843 in Victoria, at Yering station, near what is now the town of Yarra Glen.
		In 1949 Furphy's son, Samuel, gave the house in which his father lived to the Fellowship of Australian Writers in Perth.
	www.middlemiss.org /lit/australian/suchislife.html (816 words)

	Book Details
		The Poems of Joseph Furphy by Joseph Furphy
		Kate Baker was one of Furphy's supporters who ensured that his reputation as one of Australia's great novelists was secured.
		She also edited and arranged the publication of his poetry in the 1916 edition The Poems of Joseph Furphy.
	www.sup.usyd.edu.au /sup3/cgi-bin/details?ITEMNO=9781920897451 (152 words)

	Book Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Such is Life is Furphy's great novel first published in 1903, and signalled the end of the "colonial romance" by its realistic portrayal of Australian rural life.
		Joseph Furphy (1843-1912) was born in Victoria and worked on farms, in the gold diggings and carting goods in the Riverina with a bullock team before taking employment in Shepparton where he was able to study and write.At his death in 1912 in Western Australia he was still largely unknown.
		A small group of admirers, including retired teacher Kate Baker, devoted themselves to promoting his work and by the 1940's he was recognised as one of the most significant Australian writers prior to World War I. © 2002 - 2003 The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia.
	purl.library.usyd.edu.au /sup/1920897399 (132 words)

	Bulletin - Time honoured (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She begins by asking: “Who was Joseph Furphy?” and then digresses, “in Furphian fashion”, to talk of “that fabulous creation, the great Australian novel”;; to argue persuasively that “grand parochialism” in literature is the highway to universality; to emphasise the subtleties of Australian life – “its inconsistencies and incongruities, its inverted emphases, its false alarms”.
		The portrait of the author that emerges is of one sweet and forbearing of nature, a thinker who took his time before reaching insights of remarkable originality.
		Perhaps Glass is revealing Furphy’s power to capture those – like her – who study him devotedly.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/printing/00262FBA6B62442CCA256B560022A287 (636 words)

	The Rhyme of Sim’ » Furphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A colleague tried to use the word furphy in an email today - but complained that he wasn’t sure how it was spelt (furfy, furfee ?), and couldn’t find any references in the dictionary or thesauruses.
		I knew what he was trying to say - a furphy is something that is widely held to be true, but is not necessarily so, or indeed something that is blatantly untrue.
		Under the name of Tom Collins, Joseph was a well published Australian author, he was well known under his own name also, so much so that “furphy” became a word in everyday Australian speech, signifying a rumour without foundation.
	www.hampel.net.au /blog/archives/2005/02/15/fuphy (295 words)

	Poet: Joseph Furphy - All poems of Joseph Furphy
		It was Joseph's older brother, John, who invented the Furphy water-cart, which was the means the expression ‘furphy’ came into Australian English.) Joseph Fu..
		Joseph Furphy Author 1843 - 1912 aka Tom Collins.
		Joseph Furphy's most famous novel (written under the acronym of Tom Collins) was Such is Life.
	www.poemhunter.com /joseph-furphy/poet-38668 (267 words)

	Such is life :: ABC Goulburn Murray
		Over 100 years ago Joseph Furphy penned the novel "Such Is life" in a shed behind his brothers foundry in the Goulburn Valley
		This year the current generation of Furphy's is celebrating the family heritage, Joseph's life is being commemorated with a series of events as part of the Shepparton festival; including a play based on Joseph's life, readings of "Such is life" and the letter cutting of a memorial site..
		Bianca Furphy is the great great grand daughter of Joseph Furphy, Bianca says her ancestors came to Australia in 1840 "..
	www.abc.net.au /cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/goulburnmurray/stories/s1317554.htm (444 words)

	AustLit Agent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Joseph Furphy was born at Yering, Victoria, in 1843, the son of Protestant Irish immigrants.
		Furphy was educated primarily by his mother from whom he inherited a love of literature.
		Choose individual writing name Furphy, Joseph for works under that name only.
	www.austlit.edu.au /run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A)F; (148 words)

	Julian Croft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He has written and edited eight books, the most recent of which is a study of the Australian novelist Joseph Furphy, which won the McCrae Russell prize in 1991.
		Croft, J. "Between Hay and Booligal: Tom Collins' Land and Joseph Furphy's Landscape." P. Eaden and F. Mares (eds).
		The Image of Women in the Novels of Joseph Furphy." Shirley Walker (ed.).
	www.une.edu.au /~arts/ECT/staff/croft.htm (689 words)

	Joseph Furphy -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Furphy was born on Sept. 26, 1843, in Yering, a rural community in Victoria, Australia.
		"Furphy, Joseph." Britannica Student Encyclopedia from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
		More results on "Joseph Furphy" when you join.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9324094 (715 words)

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		It is very likely that Joseph Furphy, who wrote the novel, was aware of this.
		Somewhat as in this novel of mine, it has a first person narrator, but he is not called Joseph Furphy.
		Now it is unlikely that Furphy didn't know these things, but the narrator, Tom Collins, who, a bit like me I suppose, is a character in the novel, is quite unaware of them.
	www.users.bigpond.com /rghaypms/NClarice/ch03b.htm (2992 words)

	Australian Online Bookshop - Item detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Joseph Furphy - or Tom Collins, to use his pseudonym - was the bullock driver who wrote Such is Life in the 1890s.
		As a novel of the bush and the outback it is a tour de force of originality and genius.
		Furphy is among the wittiest and most learned writers in the English language.
	www.bookworm.com.au /cgi-bin/bookmall/bookworm/returndetail.tam?&item.ctx=AB000119 (173 words)

	Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-line
		Lemay, Joseph A. Leo A Calendar of American poetry in the colonial newspapers and magazines and in the major English magazines through 1765.
		Furphy, Joseph (1843-1912) The Poems of Joseph Furphy
		Kuntz, Joseph M., and Nancy C. Martinez, ed Poetry explication: a checklist of interpretation since 1925 of British and American poems past and present.
	eir.library.utoronto.ca /rpo/display_rpo/bibliography_2001.html (5206 words)

	Franklin, Stella Maria ( Marian) Sarah Miles - Australian Women Archival and Heritage Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Joseph Furphy, c.1940, written in consultation with Kate Baker G. Laughter not for a cage.
		Include talks given on Joseph Furphy, 1940-c.1945, and Rose Scott, 1951.
		Include notes on Tennyson by Joseph Furphy and verse, c.1902-1951, including poems by Mary Fullerton, Ray Mathew, 1951, Rose Scott, 1902, Ian Mudie.
	www.womenaustralia.info /archives/AWE1051a.htm (695 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Festival chairperson, Adam Furphy, said: "As always there is something for everyone in the program and plenty of free events".
		Excitingly, a new public space has been shaped to recognize Joseph Furphy who penned Such is Life.
		A Wilga Tree planted about 100 years ago by Furphy still grows in Shepparton's Welsford St. The Furphy family has donated two creative sculptures and those have combined with a public space created by the City of Greater Shepparton and the site will be formally dedicated on Saturday, March 12 at 11am.
	www.mateology.com /events/art1.html (324 words)

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