Nellie A Evans, “Triolets” (poem)

Nellie A Evans, “Triolets” (poem)

by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of posts on authors with works published in 1924. One of six children, Nellie A Evans was born in the mid 1880s to a Mr William Evans, resident of “Roslyn”, in the Goulburn district of NSW. Nellie, along with her...
Jean Curlewis and “The bomb shop”

Jean Curlewis and “The bomb shop”

by Whispering Gums   A post in our series featuring works published in 1924 (or by authors who died in 1924). This post is an article that was published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 31 May1924, and is by the Sydney-born daughter of a Ethel Turner....
Mena Calthorpe, The Dyehouse

Mena Calthorpe, The Dyehouse

Calthorpe also makes us more uncomfortable than Tennant in the end, more aware of our own complicity in so much social injustice, because she is sympathetic, understanding, and – like Miss Merton – “well into middle age”

Dorothy Hewett, Bobbin Up

Dorothy Hewett, Bobbin Up

by Kim Forrester Dorothy Hewett (1923-2002) was from a well-off farming family in Western Australia. She did her primary schooling at home on the family wheat farm, but when they moved to Perth, attended Perth College, an Anglican girls school, and then UWA. She...
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...
Jean Curlewis and “The bomb shop”

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 …