by Elizabeth Lhuede | Nov 6, 2024 | Essay
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...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Oct 2, 2024 | Essay, Poetry
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of posts on authors with works published in 1924. Beatrice Bevan (née Vale) was born in Victoria in 1876, the daughter of W M K Vale, sometime Attorney-General of Victoria. In 1901, Beatrice married the Rev. Hopkin Llewellyn...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Sep 4, 2024 | Essay, 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...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Aug 7, 2024 | Essay, Poetry
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....
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Jul 3, 2024 | Essay, Poetry
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of posts on authors with works published in 1924. Eleanor Mackinnon (1871 to 1936) is better known for her charitable work and political activities than she is for her writing. Born Eleanor Vokes Irby Addison, a descendant of...