by Guest Contributor | Oct 23, 2024 | Reviews
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”
by Guest Contributor | Oct 16, 2024 | Essay
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...
by wadholloway | Oct 9, 2024 | Essay
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...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Oct 2, 2024 | Essay, Poetry
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...
by whisperinggums | Sep 25, 2024 | Essay
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...
by Guest Contributor | Sep 18, 2024 | Reviews
The common belief at the time was that part-Aboriginal children were more intelligent than their darker relations and should be isolated and trained to be domestic servants and labourers
by wadholloway | Sep 15, 2024 | Essay
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 …
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Sep 4, 2024 | Essay, Short story
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of posts on authors with works published in 1924. Poet, dramatist and short story writer G M V Kearney was born Georgina Mary Veronica Doyle circa 1851, the youngest daughter of William Doyle from Bridge, Kilkenny, Ireland. A...
by whisperinggums | Aug 28, 2024 | Essay
by Whispering Gums A post in our series featuring works published in 1924 (or by authors who died in 1924). This post offers something different, a review of an exhibition of Australian art, which was published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 1 January 1914,...
by wadholloway | Aug 21, 2024 | Essay
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…