by Elizabeth Lhuede | May 3, 2023 | Essay
I don’t know how I came across the name of Norah Skeffington Carroll. At some point during my many excursions into Trove, her name was scrawled on the back of an envelope where I put my mug of tea. Perhaps I saw it in a contents list for The Observer (Adelaide), or...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Apr 4, 2023 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede This latest essay in our forgotten author series focusses on Margaret Ann McCarter née Kinahan (1861-1913), aka Mrs McCarter. Finding forgotten authors is sometimes a matter of luck. Last year, I was working on an entry for Marjorie Weatherley,...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Mar 1, 2023 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of forgotten Australian women writers: Bella Guerin (1858-1923). Back in February, the Trove Facebook page posted the question, “Have you used Trove to research women’s history?” Accompanying the post was a photo of a group of...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Feb 1, 2023 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede A short account of writer, journalist and feminist, Ada A Homan, née Kidgell (1869-1949). When I come across an author in the AustLit database who has only one publication and no biography listed, my detective nose twitches. While Ada A Kidgell may...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Jan 11, 2023 | Article, Round-ups
by Elizabeth Lhuede In 2022 we marked our 10-year anniversary of the AWW challenge blog and started in a new direction: looking at well-known and overlooked Australian women writers of the 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries. Our small team of three expanded to...
