This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1891.
Books
Jennings Carmichael – Hospital Children: sketches of life and character in the Children's Hospital, Melbourne Fergus Hume – Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage Hume Nisbet — The Savage Queen: A Romance of the Natives of Van Dieman's Land
Short stories
Mary Gaunt – "The Yanyilla Steeplechase" Louisa Lawson – "A Bush Experience" A. B. Paterson "The Cast-Iron Canvasser" "His Masterpiece" Rosa Praed – "The Bunyip" Price Warung "John Price's Bar of Steel" "The Liberation of the First Three"
Poetry
Barcroft Boake
"The Digger's Song" "On the Range" "Where the Dead Men Lie" Victor J. Daley – "Lachesis" George Essex Evans "An Australian Symphony" The Repentance of Magdalene Despar and Other Poems Henry Lawson "Freedom on the Wallaby" "My Literary Friend" "The Shame of Going Back" Louisa Lawson – "A Dream" Harriet Anne Patchett Martin – Coo-ee : Tales of Australian Life by Australian Ladies (edited) J. B. O'Hara – Songs of the South A. B. Paterson "An Evening in Dandaloo" "The Flying Gang: A Railroad Song" "In the Droving Days" "A Mountain Station" "The Open Steeplechase"
Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1891 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
13 March — Maie Casey, Baroness Casey, pioneer aviator, poet, librettist, biographer, memoirist and artist (died 1983) 9 April – Lesbia Harford, poet (died 1927)