Ernestine Hill, The Great Australian Loneliness (review)
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
Rosa Praed, The Sea-birds’ Message (short story)
by Mrs Campbell Praed (1851-1935) There is a great lake in one of the inland districts of Northern Australia. It is closed in by green ranges, which slope down to a beach of silvery sand. It has no outlet for its waters, which are salt as the sea. Pelicans and wild...
Rosa Praed, Sister Sorrow (review)
by Jessica White. “I was brought to the belief that there could be no such recent starting-point for an association like ours. It seemed far more reasonable to conclude that it had existed in past lives and that our attraction towards each other in this one, was the result of subconscious recognition”
R McKay Tully, The Power of a Child (short story)
by R McKay Tully Having given up working the land after many years of drought, a man loses his way in the outback. This short story first appeared in 1903 in The Dawn. “High noon, not a cloud in the sky,” quoted Ted Morris as he staggered out of the dense scrub...
Gender Unknown: the case of R McKay Tully
by Elizabeth Lhuede Finding forgotten authors. While looking up material for our “stories from the archive” lists, I come across a collection of lead articles from The Dawn, published by the University of Sydney’s SETI project, and begin ferreting out the...
E H D, The Aboriginal Mother (poem)
by Eliza Hamilton Dunlop The following poem, written in the aftermath of the Myall Creek massacre, appeared in The Australian in 1838, and again in 1841, when it was prefaced by the note ” ‘Only one female and a child got away from us’ –...
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop
by Whispering Gums An article on the Irish-born Australian poet, Eliza Hamilton Dunlop. Politically engaged in social justice issues, she was active in mid-nineteenth century literary circles, particularly in the Hunter region of New South Wales....
Ada Cambridge, The Fourth Home (extract)
by Ada Cambridge Ada Cambridge’s fourth home in Australia was Ballan, where she and her husband, George Cross, arrived in 1875. This extract is from Chapter X of Cambridge’s memoir Thirty Years in Australia. Sad indeed was the breaking-up of that pleasant...
Ada Cambridge, Thirty Years in Australia (review)
And as for the cottage people—the marked thing about them was that they were not “the poor.” There was none with whom a clergyman or his wife could safely take the liberties so customary at home.
