Ernestine Hill, The Great Australian Loneliness (review)
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
Rosa Praed, Sister Sorrow (review)
by Jessica White. “I was brought to the belief that there could be no such recent starting-point for an association like ours. It seemed far more reasonable to conclude that it had existed in past lives and that our attraction towards each other in this one, was the result of subconscious recognition”
Ada Cambridge, The Fourth Home (extract)
by Ada Cambridge Ada Cambridge’s fourth home in Australia was Ballan, where she and her husband, George Cross, arrived in 1875. This extract is from Chapter X of Cambridge’s memoir Thirty Years in Australia. Sad indeed was the breaking-up of that pleasant...
Ada Cambridge, Thirty Years in Australia (review)
And as for the cottage people—the marked thing about them was that they were not “the poor.” There was none with whom a clergyman or his wife could safely take the liberties so customary at home.
Patricia Wrightson and appropriation
by Michelle Scott Tucker. “White societies [display] the impulse to acquire whatever is of value in Indigenous culture while consigning the bearers of that culture to invisibility or extinction.” (Attebery)
