1877 in Australian literature

• Ada Cambridge — My Guardian : A Story of the Fen Country^[1]
• Maud Jean Franc
  • Little Mercy^[2]
  • Two Sides to Every Question^[3]

• Henry Kingsley — The Mystery of the Island^[4]

• Henry Kendall — "Ode to a Black Gin"
• Emily Manning — The Balance of Pain and Other Poems
• James Brunton Stephens — "The Dominion"

• Marcus Clarke — "The Future Australian Race"^[5]

• 17 January — May Gibbs, writer for children (died 1969)^[6]
• 28 July — Emily Bulcock, poet and dramatist (died 1969)^[7]
• 10 December — Bertha Southey Brammall, poet and novelist (died 1957)^[8]

Unknown date

• Harry Tighe, playwright and novelist (died 1946)^[9]

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