Louise Mack, My valley (nonfiction)

Last week I was out walking up the North Shore line, when I came to the bottom of a steep path suddenly, and – it all seems like a dream. Half an hour from the city, and you leave the red red road, and turn away westward. The path falls steeply, falls, falls,...
Louise Mack

Louise Mack

by Whispering Gums An article on the Tasmanian-born novelist and poet, journalist, war correspondent, and public lecturer, Louise Mack.   ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________...
Farewell 2022 – welcome 2023

Farewell 2022 – welcome 2023

by Elizabeth Lhuede In 2022 we marked our 10-year anniversary of the AWW challenge blog and started in a new direction: looking at well-known and overlooked Australian women writers of the 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries. Our small team of three expanded to...
Louise Mack

Bush Book Club

by Whispering Gums A departure from our focus on Australian Women Writers to a story about a book club for rural readers that was established and strongly supported by city women for several decades.  ...
Tasma, or Jessie Couvreur

Tasma, or Jessie Couvreur

Born Jessie Huybers in London in 1848, Tasma (as she later styled herself) came to Hobart, Australia, with her parents in 1852. Her family was apparently among the more prominent in Hobart, with their friends including successful author Louisa Meredith (1812-1895) and...