by whisperinggums | Jan 31, 2024 | Essay, Short story
by Whispering Gums A post in our series featuring works published in 1924 (or by authors who died in 1924). This post’s subject is a short column published in Adelaide’s Saturday Journal on 17 August 1924, by the South Australian born, Marion Simons, under...
by whisperinggums | Nov 29, 2023 | Essay
by Whispering Gums Another in our series of juvenilia posts, this one on the sisters, Annie and Ida Rentoul Australia has several bookish sisters, and we have featured some of them here, including Louise and Amy Mack, and Ethel and Lilian Turner. Annie and Ida...
by whisperinggums | Oct 25, 2023 | Reviews
by Whispering Gums Another post on a piece from the collection of Christina Stead stories, Ocean of Story. Today’s post continues our project of reviewing Ocean of story: The uncollected stories of Christina Stead, which was edited by R.G. Geering and...
by whisperinggums | Sep 27, 2023 | Reviews
by Whispering Gums Another post on a piece from the collection of Christina Stead stories, Ocean of Story. Ocean of story: The uncollected stories of Christina Stead is a posthumous collection put together by R.G. Geering, who was a teacher, academic, and, most...
by whisperinggums | Aug 30, 2023 | Essay
by Whispering Gums Two months ago, we introduced Amy Mack, a popular Australian writer in the early decades of the twentieth century. In this post, we focus on one of her best known books, Bushland stories To recap our first post on her, Amy Eleanor Mack...
