by Meg Brayshaw | Aug 28, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Above my desk I keep a black and white photograph of a woman sitting outside on a bench in a checked house dress, casually leaning next to an enormous pile of papers. The woman is Eleanor Dark, and the pile of papers is the manuscript for Storm of Time (1948), the...
by Narelle Ontivero | Aug 12, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
“The girlie loves her bath but the minute I take her out she screams and screams till by the time I have her dressed she has me reduced to tears also. Then she smiles complacently as if that were her sole object and falls into a lovely sleep. She and I both had an...
by Robyn Greaves | Jul 27, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Australian writer Henrietta Drake-Brockman was a significant figure in her time, particularly in her home state of Western Australia, where she regularly featured in the social pages of newspapers. Her prominence in literary circles and on bestseller lists at the time...
by Meg Brayshaw | Jul 18, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Yesterday marks 115 years since the birth of the writer Christina Stead, whom critics and readers are only quite recently recognising as one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the novel form. Born in suburban Sydney in 1902, late in life Stead claimed that a...
by Morgan Burgess | Jun 3, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Another in our series of classic or forgotten Australian authors, Morgan Burgess features Barbara Baynton. Thanks, Morgan. Barbara Baynton has become one of Australia’s most celebrated colonial writers despite her relatively small oeuvre. The daughter of Irish...
by Robyn Greaves | May 31, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Continuing our series on classic and forgotten women writers, Dr Robyn Greaves features Patsy Adam-Smith who was born this day in 1924. Thanks, Robyn. Very few people these days have heard of Australian writer Patsy Adam-Smith (31 May, 1924 – 20 September,...
