Mary Gaunt
by Bronwyn. [Mary Gaunt was] an extraordinary woman. Independent and adventurous as well as articulate, opinionated and determined, in a time when women were not encouraged to be any of these things.
“Reputed authoress”: Isabel Grant
by Elizabeth Lhuede Finding forgotten and overlooked Australian women writers. One way I’ve been tracing Australian women writers is by looking at “literary notes”, gossip columns and review pages on Trove; another has been to look at indexes of...
Louisa Atkinson, pioneer woman journalist
by Whispering Gums An article on the early Australian writer and botanist, Louisa Atkinson (1834-1872), complementing our previous posts on her, Bill Holloway’s review of her novel Gertrude the emigrant, and an extract from that novel....
Finding Forgotten Authors: the case of “Eucalypta”
by Elizabeth Lhuede Researching forgotten and overlooked Australian women writers. While compiling the archive of online texts by Australian women writers, I come across many of the writers’ names are new to me, writers whose lives, work and contribution to...
Early Australian women writers, 2: Secondary sources
by Whispering Gums The second part of a two-part series on sources, for those interested in reading and researching Australia’s 19th- and earlier 20th-century women writers, including those who may not have achieved prominence in their lifetimes, or whose works...
Exploring the AWWC Archives
by Stacey Roberts. “Not only was there a helpful, exhaustive list of female Australian writers, but they were in chronological order and had a direct link to their works.”
