Matilda Evans alias Maud Jeanne Franc
by Nathan Hobby Nathan is a biographer who did his PhD on writing biography. He is naturally interested in how other writers portray their subjects. Here he discusses Matilda Jane Evans (1827-1886) who wrote under the name Maud Jeanne Franc. In 1882 she gave up...
Mary Grant Bruce, Billabong Series
My newest favourite character, Norah Linton, lived with her widowed father and beloved older brother on a huge and prosperous farming property, called Billabong, in country Victoria in the early 1900s
Kylie Tennant, The Battlers (review)
by Bronwyn. ‘It’s men,’ she said. ‘Everywhere you go they’re runnin’ things. Tryin’ to down you. And women, too. All of ‘em rotten.’
Female Domestic Service
by Stacey Roberts. Oh! The servant girl, the servant girl, she is the bane of life,
She fries the steaks, and steals your clothes, and fills your soul with strife.
