Lillian Pyke, and “Mary’s mother”

Lillian Pyke, and “Mary’s mother”

by | Apr 24, 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 story published in Melbourne’s The Weekly Times on 31 May 1924, by the Victorian born-writer, Lillian Pyke. Lillian...
Lillian Pyke, and “Mary’s mother”

Kate Helen Weston, an “inky-wayfarer”

by | Feb 28, 2024 | Essay

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 The Register on 17 August 1924, by the Victorian born novelist, musician and...
Lillian Pyke, and “Mary’s mother”

Marion Simons, aka Stella Hope (et al)

by | 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...
Lillian Pyke, and “Mary’s mother”

Annie and Ida Rentoul, the early years

by | 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...