by Stories from the Archive | Jul 29, 2022 | Article, Round-ups
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...
by Stories from the Archive | Jul 22, 2022 | 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...
by Stories from the Archive | Jul 16, 2022 | Essay
by John Dalley (1876-1935) Author, editor and leader-writer John Dalley discusses the reaction of critics – especially family members – to work by Australian women writers. Note: Katharine Susannah Prichard, briefly mentioned below, was joint winner of The...
by Stories from the Archive | Jul 8, 2022 | Short story
by E Charles E Charles was the pseudonym for E C Morrice, born Elizabeth Charlotte Bingmann (1851-1941) THE hot Australian sunshine was streaming down upon the parched earth, burning up the last dry herbage in the bare paddocks, drying up the last yellow puddles of...
by Stories from the Archive | Jul 1, 2022 | fiction
by Mary Grant Bruce (1878-1958) Mary Grant Bruce’s juvenilia, including her short story, “Her Little Lad”, featured in our Wednesday essay this week. As her work is still in copyright it can only be extracted here. The full story can be read on...
