Recitation was a vital part of the curriculum in education in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It not only enabled students to gain practice in addressing groups in public, but also provided models for the study of accent and elocution – vital skills in the days before public address systems were universally available. Accordingly, a number of “reciters,” or collections of texts suitable for recitation, were published in this period. The Coo-ee Reciter, published in 1904, was one of the most popular of these collections in Australia. In the words of the anthologist it contains a variety of "humorous, pathetic, dramatic and dialect recitations and readings" by Australian, British and American authors.
Inevitably, these collections featured many items that featured the events and attitudes of the period. While many of the pieces can make no claim to be great literature, they do have great value as windows into the experiences, expectations and aspirations of the people at the time. - Summary by Algy Pug
I Killed a Man at Graspan by Montague GroverKitty O'Toole by W.L.LumleyThe Ballad of the Drover by Henry LawsonThe Rescue by Edward DysonSaltbush Bill by A.B. PatersonDrought and Doctrine by J. Brunton StephensThe Martyr by Victor J. DaleyThe Carrying of the Baby by Ethel TurnerThe Old Gum by Florence BullivantMurphy shall not Sing To-night by Montague GroverChristmas Bells by John B. O'HaraWool is Up by Garnet WalchWool is Down by Garnet WalchThe Highland Brigade Buries its Dead by Lieut -Col W T ReayAustralia's Call to Arms by John B. O'HaraGood News by Garnet WalchFree Trade v Protection by Garnet WalchThe Lion's Cubs by Garnet WalchThe Little Duchess by Ethel TurnerAustralia's Springtime by W.L.LumleyThe Man that saved the Match by David McKee WrightOde for Commonwealth Day, 1st January, 1901 by George Essex EvansA Desperate Assault by Donald MacDonaldThe Game of Life by John Godfrey SaxePrejudice by Charlotte Perkins StetsonThe Poor and the Rich by James Russell LowellThe Engineer's Story from the Denver PostSeeing's not Believing by Thomas Haynes BayleyCaudle has been made a Mason by Douglas JerroldMrs Caudle's Lecture by Douglas JerroldJim Bludso by Colonel John HayHow Uncle Mose Counted the Eggs by anonymousThe Negro Baby's Funeral by Will CarletonDer Shpider und der Fly by Charles Follen AdamsLariat Bill by G W HThe Elf Child; or, Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb RileyAlonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene by Matthew Gregory LewisAn All-around Intellectual Man by Thomas MassonHer Ideal by Kate MastersonThe Happy Farmer by Mortimer Crane BrownThe Son of a Soldier by Owen OliverThe Mile by David McKee Wright
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