E H D, The Aboriginal Mother (poem)

E H D, The Aboriginal Mother (poem)

by Eliza Hamilton Dunlop The following poem, written in the aftermath of the Myall Creek massacre, appeared in The Australian in 1838, and again in 1841, when it was prefaced by the note ” ‘Only one female and a child got away from us’ –...
Zora Cross

Zora Cross

by Jonathan Shaw. ‘Love Sonnets’, whose exuberant expressions of female desire – unprecedented in Australian literature – struck a chord with young men and women separated by World War One.

Suffering, resistance and resilience

Suffering, resistance and resilience

by Elizabeth Lhuede Representations of Indigenous people in works by Eliza Dunlop, Louisa Atkinson, Amy Susannah Staniforth, and Marie Braithwaite. While compiling the pages for our archive, I’ve come across several poems and stories by early Australian women...
Non-Fiction & Poetry: Yearly Wrap Up 2021

Non-Fiction & Poetry: Yearly Wrap Up 2021

Hello 2021 Readers! 2021 has been a strange and often hard year for many of us. I shan’t be sad in bidding it adieu. For myself, I had to put a research project I wished to finish many months ago on hold due to ill health. I achieved only half of my reading goal and...