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…
Ventured North by Train and Truck
In 1927 Katherine Susannah Prichard ventured north (from Perth) by train and truck to stay with “a friend whose husband owned a cattle station”.
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...
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)
