by Elizabeth Lhuede | Dec 7, 2022 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede Examines whether Mrs J A Bode’s “A Tale of Colonial Australia” can be read as an example of nineteenth-century Australian irony. When I initiated the Australian Women Writers challenge more than a decade ago, an Indigenous writer...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Nov 2, 2022 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede Rediscovering the life and work of forgotten Tasmanian author, Evelyn R Blackett (1863-1943) AS Christmas drew near in 1887, parishioners of the Church of England, at Buckland, on the east coast of Tasmania, enjoyed the novel thrill of a literary...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Oct 5, 2022 | Essay
In my search for forgotten Australian women writers, I have come across several authors listed in the Australian Newspaper Fiction Database whose names have yet to be entered on the AustLit database. Finding anything about the lives of many of these authors would...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Sep 7, 2022 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede Finding forgotten authors. While looking up material for our “stories from the archive” lists, I come across a collection of lead articles from The Dawn, published by the University of Sydney’s SETI project, and begin ferreting out the...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Aug 3, 2022 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede Finding forgotten and overlooked Australian women writers. Sometimes when hunting for the identity of a forgotten Australian author, the effort is rewarded immediately; all it takes is a few targeted searches of Trove, a check of the relevant...
