Miles Franklin, writer and activist
No I would never marry. I would procure some occupation in which I could tread my life out, independent of the degradation of marriage.
The Bulletin years, 1890-1920
In Australia the spirit of the nineties and early nineteen-hundreds… took the form, in the literary as in the social and political worlds, of a fervent democratic nationalism (HM Green)
Tasma, Uncle Piper of Piper’s Hill
[wives are] to be petted and made much of when things are going well, and to be severely knocked about when anything goes wrong.
AWW Generation 1, 1788-1890
Following my last post The New Woman in Australia, I provide here an annotated list of our earliest women writers
