by Meg Brayshaw | Aug 28, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Above my desk I keep a black and white photograph of a woman sitting outside on a bench in a checked house dress, casually leaning next to an enormous pile of papers. The woman is Eleanor Dark, and the pile of papers is the manuscript for Storm of Time (1948), the...
by Meg Brayshaw | Jul 18, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Yesterday marks 115 years since the birth of the writer Christina Stead, whom critics and readers are only quite recently recognising as one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the novel form. Born in suburban Sydney in 1902, late in life Stead claimed that a...
by Meg Brayshaw | Mar 16, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
This year, we’re featuring occasional articles highlighting “classic or forgotten” authors. Today’s feature is on writing team Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw. Flora, if she were still alive, would be 120 years old today (born 16th of...
