by whisperinggums | May 13, 2026 | Article, Fiction, Short story
by Whispering Gums A post in our 2026 series featuring works published in 1946 (or by authors who died in 1946). This post includes a story that was published in Tasmania’s Advocate on 22 June 1946, and is by the Victorian-born Bene Gibson Smyth....
by Stories from the Archive | Mar 31, 2023 | Article
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,...
by Stories from the Archive | Jan 27, 2023 | Article
by M Hamilton Mack (1870-1935) On Wednesday Sue T discussed the life and some of the work of Louise Mack, Tasmanian-born novelist and poet, journalist, war correspondent, and public lecturer. In the following article from 1925, Mack gives us a glimpse of...
by whisperinggums | Jan 25, 2023 | Article
by Whispering Gums An article on the Tasmanian-born novelist and poet, journalist, war correspondent, and public lecturer, Louise Mack. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Jan 11, 2023 | Article, Round-ups
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...
by whisperinggums | Dec 28, 2022 | Article
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. ...
