Third Generation, 1920s – 1950s

Third Generation, 1920s – 1950s

by Bill Holloway The years from the 1920s to the 1950s which encompass the third generation of Australian writing, saw the Depression, WWII, and the beginning of the end of Australia as a white picket fence British enclave. Nearly all of our best writers from this...
Ernestine Hill

Ernestine Hill

It was in July, 1930, that I first set out, a wandering ‘copy-boy’ with swag and typewriter, to find what lay beyond the railway lines. Across the painted deserts and the pearling seas …

Daisy Bates

Daisy Bates

Living unafraid in the great loneliness, chanting in those corroborees it is death for a woman to see, she had become a legend, to her own kind…

AWW Generation 2, 1890-1920 (list)

AWW Generation 2, 1890-1920 (list)

by Bill Holloway An annotated list of Australian women writers who began writing in the ‘Bulletin years’: when ‘native’ Australians began to assert their independence not so much from Britain, as from the old class-based structures, and women...