Third Generation, 1920s – 1950s

Third Generation, 1920s – 1950s

by Bill Holloway The years from the 1920s to the 1950s which encompass the third generation of Australian writing, saw the Depression, WWII, and the beginning of the end of Australia as a white picket fence British enclave. Nearly all of our best writers from this...
Beatrice Vale Bevan, Zingaro (poem)

Beatrice Vale Bevan, Zingaro (poem)

by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of posts on authors with works published in 1924. Beatrice Bevan (née Vale) was born in Victoria in 1876, the daughter of W M K Vale, sometime Attorney-General of Victoria. In 1901, Beatrice married the Rev. Hopkin Llewellyn...
Jessie Urquhart and “The waiting”

Jessie Urquhart and “The waiting”

by Whispering Gums   A post in our series featuring works published in 1924 (or by authors who died in 1924). This post is a short story that was published in The Australian Women’s Mirror on 23 December 1924, and is by the Sydney-born daughter of a jail...
Ernestine Hill

Ernestine Hill

It was in July, 1930, that I first set out, a wandering ‘copy-boy’ with swag and typewriter, to find what lay beyond the railway lines. Across the painted deserts and the pearling seas …

Daisy Bates

Daisy Bates

Living unafraid in the great loneliness, chanting in those corroborees it is death for a woman to see, she had become a legend, to her own kind…

Annie Powis Dunn, The Bird’s Song (poem)

Annie Powis Dunn, The Bird’s Song (poem)

by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of posts on authors with works published in 1924. Queensland poet Annie Elizabeth Powis Dunn was born in 1863 in Bristol, England, the second daughter of Sarah Elizabeth and Henry Jordan, a parliamentarian and public servant....