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...
Elizabeth Charlotte Bingmann aka E C Morrice
by Linda Emery More about the life and literary family of E C Morrice, a rediscovered Australian woman writer. In identifying E C Morrice as Elizabeth Charlotte Morrice of Browley, Moss Vale, Elizabeth Lhuede has helped pull together the strands of a story that gives...
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...
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.
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop
by Whispering Gums An article on the Irish-born Australian poet, Eliza Hamilton Dunlop. Politically engaged in social justice issues, she was active in mid-nineteenth century literary circles, particularly in the Hunter region of New South Wales....#AWW2026
