Agnes Murphy, One Woman’s Wisdom (review)
by Teresa Pitt In March we ran Teresa’s essay on the life of Agnes Gillian Murphy (1869-1931), pioneering female journalist, feminist, music promoter, socialite and networker par excellence. She was widely travelled, wrote the first-ever biography of Dame Nellie...
The ink-quester: Nancy Hogan (essay)
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of forgotten Australian women writers: Nancy Hannah Hogan (1873-1905) aka Julia Demos. As I compile the archives for works by early Australian women writers, I keep wondering about the factors which develop and sustain a...
Amy Mack, Bushland stories
by Whispering Gums Two months ago, we introduced Amy Mack, a popular Australian writer in the early decades of the twentieth century. In this post, we focus on one of her best known books, Bushland stories To recap our first post on her, Amy Eleanor Mack...
Matilda Evans alias Maud Jeanne Franc
by Nathan Hobby Nathan is a biographer who did his PhD on writing biography. He is naturally interested in how other writers portray their subjects. Here he discusses Matilda Jane Evans (1827-1886) who wrote under the name Maud Jeanne Franc. In 1882 she gave up...
Mary Grant Bruce, Billabong Series
My newest favourite character, Norah Linton, lived with her widowed father and beloved older brother on a huge and prosperous farming property, called Billabong, in country Victoria in the early 1900s
