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Miles Franklin, Australian Writers Need Courage (essay)

Miles Franklin, Australian Writers Need Courage (essay)

by Stories from the Archive | Apr 15, 2022 | Essay

by Miles Franklin (1879-1954) Original 1945 introduction: “Dr. H. S. Conby, visiting U.S. literary figure, recently warned us that no nation without us own national literature can be understood by other peoples, nor can it even understand itself. In this article...
Mrs H E Russell, Womanhood Suffrage (nonfiction extract)

Mrs H E Russell, Womanhood Suffrage (nonfiction extract)

by Stories from the Archive | Apr 8, 2022 | Essay, Nonfiction extract

by Frances Emily Russell, writing as Mrs H. E. Russell Frances Emily Russell nee Robey (1846 to 1899) wrote novels as “Mrs H E Russell” and nonfiction columns as “Eucalypta”. In a rare essay published using her married name, she argues against...

Early Australian women poets and “sex-prejudice” (nonfiction extract)

by Stories from the Archive | Apr 1, 2022 | Nonfiction extract

In her article earlier this week on Secondary Sources for early Australian women writers, Sue from Whispering Gums mentioned what a treasure of a resource is Trove. It’s a “meta”-resource, containing within it many other secondary sources on...
Mrs Francis Vidal, Tales For the Bush 1 (short story)

Mrs Francis Vidal, Tales For the Bush 1 (short story)

by Stories from the Archive | Mar 25, 2022 | Short story

Mary Theresa Vidal (1815-1873) writing as Mrs Francis Vidal On Wednesday, Stacey Roberts discussed her use of the AWW archive to help with her Honours thesis. Today’s fiction selection, “Thomas and Anne Thompson”, is by one of the authors she’s...
Rachel Henning Writes from Exmoor (nonfiction extract)

Rachel Henning Writes from Exmoor (nonfiction extract)

by Stories from the Archive | Mar 18, 2022 | Nonfiction extract

by Rachel Henning On Wednesday Bill Holloway posted a review of The Letters of Rachel Henning edited by David Adams, a work originally serialised in the Bulletin in 1951-52. Bill points out that Adams cut Henning’s original letters to create “a continuous,...
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