by Stories from the Archive | Apr 28, 2023 | Fiction
by Helen Simpson (1897-1940) BOOK ONE (i) The year, eighteen hundred and thirty-one. The place, Sydney; a city whose streets were first laid by men in chains for the easier progress of the soldiers who guarded I them. This city, growing slowly about a population of...
by Stories from the Archive | Apr 7, 2023 | Short story
by Margaret Ann McCarter (1861-1913) A short story with a conservative moral sense, “Overstepping” gives a picture of late nineteenth-century rural Victorian life and values. “Well, Clara dear, we have had a hard battle, but at last we have won, and...
by Stories from the Archive | Mar 31, 2023 | Article
Last week I was out walking up the North Shore line, when I came to the bottom of a steep path suddenly, and – it all seems like a dream. Half an hour from the city, and you leave the red red road, and turn away westward. The path falls steeply, falls, falls,...
by Stories from the Archive | Mar 24, 2023 | Poetry
by Agnes Murphy (1865-1931) On Wednesday, Teresa Pitt posted an article on this fascinating author, in which she referred to the following poem. Published posthumously in June 1831, it was prefaced by this editorial note: “This, the last and one of the few poems...
by Stories from the Archive | Mar 10, 2023 | Novel extract
by Catherine Helen Spence Spence’s science fiction novel, A week in the future, was first published in 1888. We originally intended to publish the following to accompany Bill’s piece on the book in January, but somehow the scheduling got mixed up. The...
