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.”
Zora Cross
by Jonathan Shaw. ‘Love Sonnets’, whose exuberant expressions of female desire – unprecedented in Australian literature – struck a chord with young men and women separated by World War One.
Suffering, resistance and resilience
by Elizabeth Lhuede Representations of Indigenous people in works by Eliza Dunlop, Louisa Atkinson, Amy Susannah Staniforth, and Marie Braithwaite. While compiling the pages for our archive, I’ve come across several poems and stories by early Australian women...
Early Australian women writers, 1: Primary sources
by Whispering Gums The first of a two-part series on sources, for those interested in reading and researching Australia’s 19th- and earlier 20th-century women writers, particularly those who may not have achieved prominence in their lifetimes, or whose works...
Australia’s First Women Writers
by Michelle Scott Tucker. As Aboriginal people had been doing orally and pictorially for 60,000 years, the European colonists used letters, diaries, drawings and paintings to share their stories, news, and hopes.
