Daisy Bates, Aboriginal Stellar Myths (nonfiction extract)
by Daisy Bates. Tribes, now far apart, whose very dialect has changed in the centuries, possess myths and legends whose similarity is evidence of tribal unity in some far-off time.
Netta Walker, The Old, Old Story (short story)
by Netta Walker (1868-1942) What does it matter for one soul more, Millions of souls have been lost before. —A. Lindsay Gordon. Through the drizzling rain along a dark and friendless road a woman journeyed, clasping in her cold and aching arms a frail human atom. She...
“G.M.M.”, “A Novelist at Home” (nonfiction)
by “G.M.M.” An article on the author Eleanor Dark, whose juvenilia was discussed on Wednesday. THE fact that one of our most highly-praised novels should have emanated from a woman who lives in the seclusion of Katoomba is not surprising, for Katoomba...
Ada Cambridge, A Sweet Day (short story)
by Ada Cambridge (1844-1926) “The other stories are very sentimental, but are not uninteresting, and are nicely told.” Review of At Midnight, and other stories by Ada Cambridge (1897). Lord Thomas de Bohun had been married twice—and more. In fact he was...
