by Elizabeth Lhuede | Mar 1, 2023 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of forgotten Australian women writers: Bella Guerin (1858-1923). Back in February, the Trove Facebook page posted the question, “Have you used Trove to research women’s history?” Accompanying the post was a photo of a group of...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Feb 1, 2023 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede A short account of writer, journalist and feminist, Ada A Homan, née Kidgell (1869-1949). When I come across an author in the AustLit database who has only one publication and no biography listed, my detective nose twitches. While Ada A Kidgell may...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Jan 11, 2023 | Article, Round-ups
by Elizabeth Lhuede In 2022 we marked our 10-year anniversary of the AWW challenge blog and started in a new direction: looking at well-known and overlooked Australian women writers of the 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries. Our small team of three expanded to...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Dec 7, 2022 | Article
by Elizabeth Lhuede Examines whether Mrs J A Bode’s “A Tale of Colonial Australia” can be read as an example of nineteenth-century Australian irony. When I initiated the Australian Women Writers challenge more than a decade ago, an Indigenous writer...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Nov 2, 2022 | Article
by Elizabeth Lhuede Rediscovering the life and work of forgotten Tasmanian author, Evelyn R Blackett (1863-1943) AS Christmas drew near in 1887, parishioners of the Church of England, at Buckland, on the east coast of Tasmania, enjoyed the novel thrill of a literary...
