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
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
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)
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”
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...
Doris Pilkington, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
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
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 …
G M V Kearney, Withdrawn from the Auction Room (short story)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...
Edith M. Fry and “Australian art at Burlington House”
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,...
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…
