Happy new year 2024!

Happy new year 2024!

Welcome to a new year of highlighting the lives and works of early Australian women writers. This year, our commissioning editor Bill from The Australian Legend has chosen to focus on the theme, “The Independent Woman in Australian Literature”. Whispering...
Rosamond Agnes Benham: lady medico martyr

Rosamond Agnes Benham: lady medico martyr

by Elizabeth Lhuede The final article in this year’s series on forgotten Australian women authors. This coming Monday, it’ll be 100 years since the death of Rosamond Agnes Benham (married name Taylor), poet, public lecturer, single mother and medical doctor. It...
Jessie Urquhart, the jail governor’s daughter

Jessie Urquhart, the jail governor’s daughter

by Elizabeth Lhuede Rediscovering Jessie Urquhart (1890-1948), another of our forgotten Australian women writers. In 1935, Zora Cross published an article, “Australian women who write”, in which she refers to many whose names will be familiar to readers of Australian...