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G M V Kearney, Withdrawn from the Auction Room (short story)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…
Ventured North by Train and Truck
In 1927 Katherine Susannah Prichard ventured north (from Perth) by train and truck to stay with “a friend whose husband owned a cattle station”.
Annie Powis Dunn, The Bird’s Song (poem)
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of posts on authors with works published in 1924. Queensland poet Annie Elizabeth Powis Dunn was born in 1863 in Bristol, England, the second daughter of Sarah Elizabeth and Henry Jordan, a parliamentarian and public servant....
Grace Ethel Martyr, and “The blue jar”
by Whispering Gums A post in our series featuring works published in 1924 (or by authors who died in 1924). This post’s subject is a short story titled “The blue jar” which was published in The Australasian’s Storyteller section, on 5...
AWW Generation 2, 1890-1920 (list)
by Bill Holloway An annotated list of Australian women writers who began writing in the ‘Bulletin years’: when ‘native’ Australians began to assert their independence not so much from Britain, as from the old class-based structures, and women...
Miles Franklin, writer and activist
No I would never marry. I would procure some occupation in which I could tread my life out, independent of the degradation of marriage.
