1885 in Australian literature

• Table Talk published its first issue on 26 June 1885.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page17398074 |newspaper=Table Talk (magazine)|title=Cover |issue=1 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=26 June 1885 |accessdate=26 May 2016 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}

• Francis Adams — Leicester : An Autobiography{{Cite web |title=9781241377687: Leicester: an autobiography. [A novel.] - Adams, Francis: 1241377685 - AbeBooks |url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781241377687/Leicester-autobiography-novel-Adams-Francis-1241377685/plp |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=www.abebooks.co.uk |language=en-GB}}
• Rolf Boldrewood
• The Crooked Stick, or, Pollie's Probation{{Cite book |last=Boldrewood |first=Rolf |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xGP_XMP3ywoC |title=The Crooked Stick: Or, Pollie's Probation |date=1895 |publisher=Macmillan and Company |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Boldrewood |first=Rolf |url=https://www.amazon.com/Crooked-Stick-Pollies-Probation-1895/dp/B002MRQZMQ |title=The Crooked Stick: Or, Pollie's Probation |date=2009-08-10 |publisher=Cornell University Library |language=English}}
• The Sealskin Cloak{{Cite book |last=Boldrewood |first=Rolf |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qFNAAAAAIAAJ |title=The Sealskin Cloak |date=1896 |publisher=Macmillan |language=en}}
• Ada Cambridge — A Little Minx : A Sketch{{Cite web |last=Austlit |title=A Little Minx: A Sketch |website=AustLit |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C76992 |access-date=2022-11-01 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=A Little Minx: A Sketch |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/47123870-a-little-minx-a-sketch |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}
• Mary Fortune — Dan Lyons' Doom{{cite web|title= Austlit — Dan Lyons' Doom by Mary Fortune |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C268096|access-date= 14 August 2023}}
• Rosa Praed
• Affinities : A Romance of To-Day{{Cite book |last=Campbell Praed |first=Rosa Caroline Praed |url=http://archive.org/details/affinitiesaroma00praegoog |title=Affinities: A Romance of To-day |date=1885 |publisher=Richard Bentley & Son |others=Oxford University |language=English}}
• The Head Station : A Novel of Australian Life{{Cite book |last=Praed |first=Rosa Caroline |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1856142 |title=The head station: a novel of Australian life |date=1885 |publisher=Chapman and Hall |location=London}}{{Cite web |title=The head station. A novel of Australian life. |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.headstationnovel00prae/?st=gallery |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}

{{Main|1885 in poetry}}

• Victor Daley
• "On the River"
• "On the Shore"{{Cite web |last=Austlit |title=On the Shore |website=AustLit |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C60746 |access-date=2022-11-01 |language=en}}
• George Essex Evans — "Australia Militant"{{Cite web |last=Austlit |title=Australia Militant |website=AustLit |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C256706 |access-date=2022-11-01 |language=en}}
• Mary Hannay Foott
• "Happy Days"
• "No Message"
• Where the Pelican Builds and Other Poems{{Cite web |title=Mary Hannay Foott - Old Qld poetry |url=https://www.oldqldpoetry.com/mary-hannay-foott |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=www.oldqldpoetry.com}}
• Philip J. Holdsworth — "My Queen of Dreams"{{Cite web |last=Austlit |title=My Queen of Dreams |website=AustLit |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C30544 |access-date=2022-11-01 |language=en}}
• Henry Parkes — The Beauteous Terrorist and Other Poems{{cite web|title= Austlit — The Beauteous Terrorist and Other Poems by Henry Parkes |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C257695|access-date= 15 August 2023}}
• A. B. Paterson — "El Mahdi to the Australian Troops"
• J. Brunton Stephens — Convict Once and Other Poems{{Cite book |last=Stephens |first=J. Brunton |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2320466 |title=Convict once and other poems |date=1885 |publisher=George Robertson |edition=New |location=Melbourne}}

• Rolf Boldrewood
• "A Canvas Town Romance"{{Cite news |author=Rolf Boldrewood |date=1885-10-10 |title=The Storyteller: A Canvas Town Romance |newspaper=Australasian |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138638111 |access-date=2022-11-01}}
• "A Transformation Scene"{{cite web|title= Austlit — "A Transformation Scene" by Rolf Boldrewood |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C603660|access-date= 15 August 2023}}
• Rosa Praed — Australian Life, Black and White{{cite web|title= Austlit — Australian Life, Black and White by Rosa Praed |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C111430|access-date= 15 August 2023}}

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1885 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 20 March – Ruby Lindsay, artist and writer (died 1919){{Cite web |title=Ruby Lindsay (1885-1919)|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A78216 |access-date=2023-09-19 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=The University of Queensland}}
• 13 June – Henry George Lamond, novelist (died 1969){{cite web|title= Lamond, Henry George (1885–1969) by Nancy Bonnin |publisher=Australian Dictionary of Biography|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lamond-henry-george-10780|access-date= 15 August 2023}}
• 1 July – Dorothea Mackellar, poet (died 1968){{cite web|title= Mackellar, Isobel Marion Dorothea (1885–1968) by Beverley Kingston |publisher=Australian Dictionary of Biography|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mackellar-isobel-marion-dorothea-7383|access-date= 15 August 2023}}
• 5 July – Rose Lindsay, artist's model, author, and printmaker (died 1978){{cite web|title= Lindsay, Rose (1885–1978) by Ana Carden-Coyne |publisher= Australian Dictionary of Biography|url= https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lindsay-rose-13047|accessdate= 6 July 2023}}
• 18 August – Nettie Palmer, critic (died 1964){{cite web|title= Palmer, Janet Gertrude (Nettie) (1885–1964) by D. J. Jordan |publisher= Australian Dictionary of Biography|url= https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/palmer-janet-gertrude-nettie-7948|accessdate= 12 July 2023}}
• 28 August – Vance Palmer, novelist (died 1959){{cite web|title= Palmer, Edward Vivian (Vance) (1885–1959) by Geoffrey Serle |publisher= Australian Dictionary of Biography|url= https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/palmer-edward-vivian-vance-7946|accessdate= 11 July 2023}}
• 18 September – Edward George Honey, journalist (died 1922 in England){{cite news |date=21 September 1885 |title=Family Notices |page=1 |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=12,245 |location=Victoria, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6096054 |accessdate=26 September 2023 |via=National Library of Australia}}

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1885 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

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• Ellen Liston, schoolteacher, short story writer and poet (born 1838 in England){{Cite web |title=Ellen Liston (1838-1885) |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A21607 |access-date=2023-03-10 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=The University of Queensland}}

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