Ethel Turner’s juvenilia
by Whispering Gums An article on some of the juvenilia written by Ethel Turner, author of the Australian children’s literature classic, Seven Little Australians, and many other works....
Mary Gaunt, Quits (short story)
by Mary Gaunt (1861-1942) After braving the dual peril of floods and bushrangers, rural women face a moral dilemma. Gaunt’s short story, “Quits”, was first published in Windsor Magazine in Dec 1898 and reprinted in The Broad Arrow Standard in...
Mary Gaunt
by Bronwyn. [Mary Gaunt was] an extraordinary woman. Independent and adventurous as well as articulate, opinionated and determined, in a time when women were not encouraged to be any of these things.
“Old-Women’s Stories”: Mrs Langloh Parker’s Preface to Australian Legendary Tales
by Mrs Langloh Parker Barbarians did the dreaming of the world, poetry arose in their fancies, and poetry, in spite of facts and science, resolutely refuses to ‘follow darkness like a dream.’ Mrs. Parker’s collection demonstrates that, amongst the...
Nathan Hobby, The Red Witch (review)
by Bill Holloway. A review of the first biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard since her son, Ric Throssell’s Wild Weeds and Windflowers (1975)
Isabel Grant: The Archangel Michael (short story)
by Isabel Grant (c1870-1952) A “pre-millennial” horror story by Isabel Grant, published in 1909. A “new-chum” Scottish nurse working in a mental asylum keeps her cool when a patient suffering from religious mania threatens to wreak destruction....
“Reputed authoress”: Isabel Grant
by Elizabeth Lhuede Finding forgotten and overlooked Australian women writers. One way I’ve been tracing Australian women writers is by looking at “literary notes”, gossip columns and review pages on Trove; another has been to look at indexes of...Louisa Atkinson, The Kurrajong Waterfalls (nonfiction)
by Louisa Atkinson On Wednesday Sue from Whispering Gums discussed Louisa Atkinson’s pioneering nature journalism. The following is Sue’s selection from the series by Atkinson, “A Voice From the Country”. IT was a bright pleasant day when we...
