by Morgan Burgess | Nov 21, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Ada Cambridge, astute social critic and author, began her writing career proper in 1875 to, as she put it, “add… to the family resources when they threatened to give out” (ADB), when she published the novel Up the Murray as a serial in the Australasian newspaper. She...
by Morgan Burgess | Jun 3, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Another in our series of classic or forgotten Australian authors, Morgan Burgess features Barbara Baynton. Thanks, Morgan. Barbara Baynton has become one of Australia’s most celebrated colonial writers despite her relatively small oeuvre. The daughter of Irish...
by Morgan Burgess | May 13, 2017 | Article
A dream? What is dreaming? Some explain most learnedly how it is caused by certain conditions of the body. May not some dreams cause those certain conditions? (105) Thus declares the narrator at the close of Henrietta Dugdale’s only novel, A Few Hours in a Far Off...
