M Preston Stanley Vaughan, “Is marriage a handicap to woman’s ambition?” (prose)
By M. Preston Stanley Vaughan (1883-1955) The following piece appeared in 1934, the same year Millicent Preston Stanley married former South Australian Premier, Crawford Vaughan. THERE are some questions that cannot be answered by either an unqualified negative or an...
The Lost Stories of Evelyn Blackett
by Elizabeth Lhuede Rediscovering the life and work of forgotten Tasmanian author, Evelyn R Blackett (1863-1943) AS Christmas drew near in 1887, parishioners of the Church of England, at Buckland, on the east coast of Tasmania, enjoyed the novel thrill of a literary...
Lesbia Harford
by Jonathan Shaw. [Harford] was an intellectual, an ex-Catholic, a factory worker, an activist, a free spirit, a lover, a tutor and a student: all of these fed her poetry.
Writer, teacher, farmer’s daughter: Jessie Maria Goldney
In my search for forgotten Australian women writers, I have come across several authors listed in the Australian Newspaper Fiction Database whose names have yet to be entered on the AustLit database. Finding anything about the lives of many of these authors would...
