Author Index

Scroll through or click on the first letter of the author’s surname on the alphabet bar.

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A

Louisa Atkinson (1834-1872) ADB, Wiki
Gertrude the Emigrant, 1857 (review, wadh)
Gertrude the Emigrant (extract)
The Kurrajong Waterfalls (non-fiction extract)
Louisa Atkinson, pioneer woman journalist (essay, WG)

B

Daisy Bates (1863-1951) ADB, Wiki
Aboriginal Stellar Myths (non-fiction extract)

Florence Baverstock (1860-1937)
“Journalistic Genius” (essay, E.Lhuede)
Samoan Ghosts (short story)

Barbara Baynton (1857-1929) ADB, Wikix
Human Toll, 1907 (review, wadh)
Human Toll (extract)
Indignity of Domestic Service (essay)
Barbara Baynton by Penne Hackforth-Jones (review)

Elizabeth Charlotte Bingmann (1851-1941) see E C Morrice

Evelyn Blackett (1863-1943)
The Lost Stories of Evelyn Blackett (essay, E.Lhuede)
For the Sake of Scalby (fiction extract)

Florence Blair see Florence Baverstock

Capel Boake, Doris Boake Kerr (1889,1944) ADB, Wiki
Capel Boake (essay, WG)
Capel Boake, Three short stories and more (essay, WG)
The Room Next Door (short story)
The Necessary Third (short story)

Ettie E Bode (1838-1920)
Mrs Bode and a Question of Irony (essay, E.Lhuede)
Lubra (poem)

Hannah Villiers Boyd (1807-c1865)
Letters on Education (non-fiction extract)

Marie Braithwaite, “Jack Rugby”, (c1861-1927)
Betty Pops the Question (short story)

Mary Grant Bruce (1878-1958) ADB, Wiki
Mary Grant Bruce’s Juvenilia (essay, WG)
Her Little Lad (short story extract)

Bush Book Club (NSW, 1910-195?)
Bush Book Club (essay, WG)
Lady Poore, Bush Book Club (letter to the editor)

C

Ada Cambridge (1844-1926) ADB, Wiki
A Mere Chance, 1880  (review, wadh)
Thirty Years in Australia, 1903 (review, wadh)
The Fourth Home (extract from ‘Thirty Years)
A Sweet Day (short story)
Ada Cambridge: Colonial Writer and Social Critic (essay, Morgan Burgess)

Norah Skeffington Carroll (c1886-1954)
The gambler’s wife and the fraudster’s daughter (essay, E.Lhuede)
The conversion of a celibate (short story)

Jessie Catherine Couvreur (1848-1897) see Tasma

Zora Cross (1890-1964) ADB, Wiki
Zora Cross (essay, Jonathan Shaw)
Impressions of Some Writing Women (non-fiction extract)

D

Eleanor Dark (1901-1985) ADB, Wiki
Slow Dawning, 1932 (review, Debbie Robson)
Slow Dawning (newspaper review)
Eleanor Dark’s Juvenilia (essay, WG)
The Quiet Brilliance of Eleanor Dark (essay, Meg Brayshaw)
A Novelist at Home (non-fiction extract by ‘GMM’)

Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (1796-1880) ADB, Wiki
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (essay, WG)
The Aboriginal Mother (poem)

E

F

Elizabeth Fenton (1804-1875)
The Journal of Mrs Fenton (extract)

Mable Forrest (1872-1935)
Frances Floriline (short story)

Miles Franklin (1879-1954)
Miles Franklin page

G

Mary Gaunt (1861-1942) ADB, Wiki
Mary Gaunt, part 1 (essay, Bronwyn)
Mary Gaunt, part 2 (essay, Bronwyn)
Quits (Short Story)
Alone in West Africa (Non-fiction extract)

Frances Tyrell Gill ( c1850-?)
Learned Spinster (essay, E. Lhuede)
Cora (short story)

Jessie Maria Goldney (1849-1923)
Writer, Teacher, Farmer’s Daughter: Jessie Maria Goldney (essay, E. Lhuede)
A Daisy Crushed (short story)

Isabel Grant (c1870-1952)
Reputed Authoress: Isabel Grant (essay, E. Lhuede)
The Archangel Michael (short story)

Julia Margaret (Bella) Guerin (1858-1923) ADB, Wiki
From Imperialistic butterfly to democratic grub (essay, E. Lhuede)
Mrs Pankhurst (sonnet)

Alice Guerin (1876-1941)
New Year’s Eve – December 1901 (poem)

Jeannie Gunn (1870-1961) ADB, Wiki
The Little Black Princess (extract)
We of the Never Never (extract)
Aboriginal domestic servants in colonial women’s fiction, 1854-1906 (essay, Stacey Roberts)

H

Lesbia Harford (1891-1927) ADB, Wiki
Lesbia Harford (essay, Jonathan Shaw)
Angel (short story)

Rachel Henning (1826-1914) ADB, Wiki
The Letters of Rachel Henning (review, wadh)
Rachel Henning writes from Exmoor (extract)

Alice Henry (1857-1943) ADB, Wiki
Organisation in U.S., Australians’ Good Work (newspaper article)

Ernestine Hill (1899-1972) ADB, Wiki
The Great Australian Loneliness, 1937 (review, wadh)
The Strange Case of Mrs Widgety (non-fiction extract)
Writer Ernestine Hill (1899-1972): “A Pioneer of her Kind” (essay, Robyn Greaves)

Ada Holman (1869-1949) see Ada A Kidgell

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K

Ada A Kidgell (1869-1949) ADB, Wiki
A Clever and Pretty Blue Stocking (essay, E. Lhuede)
The Triumphant Candidate (short story)

L

Caroline Leakey (1827-1881) ADB, Wiki
The Broad Arrow, 1859 (review, wadh)
The Broad Arrow (extract)

M

Margaret Ann McCarter (1861-1913)
Mrs McCarter: “Well-known authoress” (essay, E.Lhuede)
Looranna (1908)
Overstepping (short story)

Amy E Mack (1876-1939)
Amy Mack: “a nature lover” (essay, WG)
Along the Garden Avenue (nonfiction)

Louise Mack (1870-1935) ADB, Wiki
The World is Round, 1906 (review, WG)
Teens, Girls Together (review, WG/wadh)
In a Country School (short story)
My Quest: London Bookshops (nonfiction)
My Valley (nonfiction)
Louise Mack (essay, WG)

Louisa Anne Meredith (1812-1895)
Notes and Sketches of New South Wales (non-fiction extract)

Georgiana Molloy (1805-1843) ADB, Wiki
Georgiana Molloy: Collector of Seeds and Words (essay, Jess White)
John Molloy: Wardandi Massacre (essay, theaustralianlegend)

E C Morrice (1851-1941)
Elizabeth Charlotte Bingmann aka EC Morrice (essay, Linda Emery)
Gender Female: EC Morrice (essay, E.Lhuede)
Molly’s Dilemma (short story)
True Till Death (short story)

Myra Morris (1893-1966)
Come Wind, Come Rain! (poem)

Agnes G Murphy (1869-1931)
Agnes G Murphy (essay, Teresa Pitt)
To Aimee (poem)

N

Alice Nannup ( 1911-1995)
When the Pelican Laughed, 1992 (review wadh)

O

P

Mrs K Langloh Parker (1856-1940) Wiki
Old-Women’s Stories (Preface to ‘Australian Legendary Tales’)

Rosa Praed (1851-1935) ADB, Wiki
The Bond of Wedlock, 1887 (review, wadh)
Sister Sorrow, 1916 (review, Jess White)
The Sea Bird’s Message (short story)
Giving up the Secrets of the Bush (essay, Narelle Ontivero)

Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969) ADB, Wiki
Goldfields Trilogy, 1946-50 (review, Marcie McCauley)
Working Women of Note 1 (essay, KSP)
Katharine Susannah Prichard (essay, Nathan Hobby)
Nathan Hobby, The Red Witch (review, wadh)
Sharp-eyed Hussies (newspaper story, John Dalley)
see also:
Prichard, Katharine Susannah, “The Aborigine in Australian Literature“, in The British Annual of Literature 1939: 49-53.
Mrs K Langloh Parker, ‘Old-Women’s Stories’

Q

R

Frances Emily Russell, “Eucalypta” (1846 to 1899)
Womanhood Suffrage (non-fiction extract)
Finding Forgotten Authors: the case of “Eucalypta” (essay, E. Lhuede)

S

Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) ADB, Wiki
Clara Morison, 1854 (review, wadh)
Clara Morison (extract)
Mr Hogarth’s Will, 1865 (review, Emma)
A Week in the Future, 1880 (review, wadh)
A Week in the Future (extract)
An Autobiography (review, Emma)
The Literary Calling (non-fiction extract)

Helen de Guerry Simpson (1897-1940) ADB
Helen Simpson: “One of the giants?” (essay, WG)
Under Capricorn (extract)

T

Tasma, Jessie Catherine Couvreur (1848-1897) ADB, Wiki
Tasma or Jessie Couvreur (essay, WG)
The Rubria Ghost (short story)
As Nature Bade Her, Sensuality in Tasma’s Bush Stories (essay, Narelle Ontivero )

Kylie Tennant (1912-1988) ADB, Wiki
Tiburon, 1935 (review, Jo-Anne Reid)
Tiburon (extract)
The Battlers, 1941 (review Bronwyn)
The Battlers (extract)
Ride on Stranger, 1943 (review wadh)
Ma Jones and Little White Cannibals, 1967 (review, wadh)
Back to the Battling by April Hershey (extract from review)
A novelist I know: Kylie Tennant by Camden Morrisby (extract)

R McKay Tully (1868-1945)
Gender Unknown: The Case of R McKay Tully (essay, E. Lhuede)
The Power of a Child (short story)

U

V

M. Preston Stanley Vaughan (1883-1955)
Is Marriage a Handicap to Women’s Ambition (prose)

Mary Theresa Vidal (1815-1873)
Tales for the Bush (short story)

W

Netta Walker (1868-1942)
An Elusive Quarry: Miss Netta Walker (essay, E.Lhuede)
The Old, Old Story (short story)

Patricia Wrightson (1921-2010) Wiki
Patricia Wrightson and Appropriation (essay, MST)

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