We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

They had two children son Jim (Joseph) and daughter Bertha. Lawson was the first person to be granted a New South Wales state funeral (traditionally reserved for Governors Chief Justices etc. Long separated from her husband and elderly Mrs Bryers was at the time Henry Lawson met Lawson a woman of independent means looking forward to retirement.

He was the son of the poet publiHenry Lawsonr and feminist Louisa Lawson. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest writer".