Although this work was published after the author left Australia in 1907, it has been included in AustLit because of its Australian content. Michele Leggott states that Sun-Up is a sequence which is "lensed through the composite experience of Ridge's sojourn in Sydney as a very young child brought by her mother from Ireland, and her return to the same city in 1903 with her mother and three year old son."
- Source: 'The First Life: A Chronology of Lola Ridge's Australasian Years'. Paper presented at Bluff Poetry Symposium, Southland, New Zealand, 22 April 2006.
