by wadholloway | Nov 20, 2024 | Essay
An annotated list of Australian women writers who began writing after WWI, during the Depression, and up to the end of the fifties/early sixties
by wadholloway | Nov 13, 2024 | Essay
You ask … are we masquerading as boys. No, we are masquerading as life. We are in search of a country … the promised land
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Nov 6, 2024 | Essay
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...
by whisperinggums | Oct 31, 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 an article that was published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 31 May1924, and is by the Sydney-born daughter of a Ethel Turner....
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