by Stories from the Archive | Dec 9, 2022 | Poetry
by Ettie E Bode nee Ayliffe (1836-1920) This poem appeared in a centenary anthology, Australian Poets: 1788-1888. Ours was the land, all ours, mine and my people’s: the tribes, To roam at will, to dwell, to hunt and to fish in, We were the lords of the soil, the...
by Stories from the Archive | Dec 2, 2022 | Short story
Jessie Catherine Couvreur (1848-1897), writing as “Tasma”. Published in 1878 in The Australian Ladies’ Annual, “The Rubria Ghost” concerns a young wife, “chained” to an ancient husband, who meets a ghost by moonlight on the...
by Stories from the Archive | Nov 25, 2022 | Short story
by Elizabeth Charlotte Bingmann, aka E C Morrice (1851-1941) A “hoydenish” girl’s plans come awry when she tries to play matchmaker for her sister. Janet Arden laid down the “Sydney Mail” with a sigh. She had been looking at the illustrations of the...
by Stories from the Archive | Nov 18, 2022 | Article
By M. Preston Stanley Vaughan (1883-1955) The following piece appeared in 1934, the same year Millicent Preston Stanley married former South Australian Premier, Crawford Vaughan. THERE are some questions that cannot be answered by either an unqualified negative or an...
by Stories from the Archive | Nov 4, 2022 | Fiction
by Evelyn Blackett (1863-1943) A young woman forgoes her chance of love for the sake of her family. An oppressively hot February afternoon, the air above lay still, and the earth seemed as silent and lifeless as if suddenly dispeopled and forgotten. The sea was at...
