Kylie Tennant, Tiburon (review)
Compassion was, indeed, a scarce commodity in the thirties, vanishing underground with the stream of money and leaving us with dry eroded faces, cracked into grim lines, a desperate humour to defend us from grief
Ada A Kidgell, The triumphant candidate
by Ada A Kidgell (1869-1949) Ada A Holman (née Kidgell), wife of the first “Labour” premier of New South Wales, published the following story in 1898, when she was only 19. Set more than ten years in the author’s future, the story not only predicts...
“A clever and pretty blue stocking”: Ada A Kidgell
by Elizabeth Lhuede A short account of writer, journalist and feminist, Ada A Homan, née Kidgell (1869-1949). When I come across an author in the AustLit database who has only one publication and no biography listed, my detective nose twitches. While Ada A Kidgell may...
Louise Mack, My quest: London book shops (nonfiction)
by M Hamilton Mack (1870-1935) On Wednesday Sue T discussed the life and some of the work of Louise Mack, Tasmanian-born novelist and poet, journalist, war correspondent, and public lecturer. In the following article from 1925, Mack gives us a glimpse of...
Louise Mack
by Whispering Gums An article on the Tasmanian-born novelist and poet, journalist, war correspondent, and public lecturer, Louise Mack. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________...
Catherine Helen Spence, A Week in the Future (review)
In the hundred years that had elapsed since I had known the world, first had come a cataclysm sweeping away the old foundations and much that had been reared upon them, and from these had gradually emerged a new society
Miles Franklin, Alice Henry (newspaper story)
The editors educated women to understand that the unorganised woman worker was always at the mercy of the unscrupulous employer.
Farewell 2022 – welcome 2023
by Elizabeth Lhuede In 2022 we marked our 10-year anniversary of the AWW challenge blog and started in a new direction: looking at well-known and overlooked Australian women writers of the 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries. Our small team of three expanded to...
Alice Guerin, New Year’s Eve – December 1901
by Alice Guerin Crist (1876-1941) Guerin was a native of Clare, Ireland, and emigrated to Queensland with her family when two years old. The daughter of a teacher, she became a teacher herself, before marrying and settling on the land. A gifted poet, she was...
