by Elizabeth Lhuede | Dec 4, 2024 | Essay
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...
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 | Jun 5, 2024 | Essay, Short story
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of posts on works published in 1924. Mary Simpson, short story writer and dramatist, was born in Stalwell, in Victoria, in 1884. She began publishing in the early 1900s, and her last work, a play, appeared in 1940. In 1953,...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Apr 3, 2024 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of posts on works published in 1924 (or authors who died in 1924). The following looks at the ways in which Anzac Day was remembered one hundred years ago. As April is when we remember the Anzacs, this month I’ve chosen to...
