Third Generation, 1920s – 1950s
by Bill Holloway The years from the 1920s to the 1950s which encompass the third generation of Australian writing, saw the Depression, WWII, and the beginning of the end of Australia as a white picket fence British enclave. Nearly all of our best writers from this...
Beatrice Vale Bevan, Zingaro (poem)
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of posts on authors with works published in 1924. Beatrice Bevan (née Vale) was born in Victoria in 1876, the daughter of W M K Vale, sometime Attorney-General of Victoria. In 1901, Beatrice married the Rev. Hopkin Llewellyn...
Jessie Urquhart and “The waiting”
by Whispering Gums A post in our series featuring works published in 1924 (or by authors who died in 1924). This post is a short story that was published in The Australian Women’s Mirror on 23 December 1924, and is by the Sydney-born daughter of a jail...
Ernestine Hill
It was in July, 1930, that I first set out, a wandering ‘copy-boy’ with swag and typewriter, to find what lay beyond the railway lines. Across the painted deserts and the pearling seas …
