Ruby M. Doyle and “The flame”
by Whispering Gums A post in our 2025 series featuring works published in 1935 (or by authors who died in 1935). This post includes a short story that was published in the Sydney Mail on 24 July 1924, and is by Australian-born Ruby M. Doyle....
Australia’s Independent Woman, an Overview
In the 1960s, what is an Independent Woman was changed forever by ‘the pill’, which allowed women to enter marriage without the fear of endless pregnancies
Maud R Liston, Childhood Memories (poem)
Another in our series of posts on authors with works published in 1924. A prolific verse-maker, Maud Renner Liston was born in Adelaide in 1875, the fourth of seven children of William Liston and Marion J Liston of Kapunda and Westbourne Park. Her work began appearing...
Dulcie Deamer and “Fancy Dress”
by Whispering Gums A post in our series featuring works published in 1924 (or by authors who died in 1924). This post is an article that was published in The Daily Mail on 12 July 1924, and is by the New Zealand-born Dulcie Deamer....
AWW Generation 3, 1920 – 1960 (list)
An annotated list of Australian women writers who began writing after WWI, during the Depression, and up to the end of the fifties/early sixties
Eve Langley
You ask … are we masquerading as boys. No, we are masquerading as life. We are in search of a country … the promised land
Nellie A Evans, “Triolets” (poem)
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of posts on authors with works published in 1924. One of six children, Nellie A Evans was born in the mid 1880s to a Mr William Evans, resident of “Roslyn”, in the Goulburn district of NSW. Nellie, along with her...
Jean Curlewis and “The bomb shop”
by Whispering Gums A post in our series featuring works published in 1924 (or by authors who died in 1924). This post is an article that was published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 31 May1924, and is by the Sydney-born daughter of a Ethel Turner....
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”
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