Miles Franklin in America
They say any fool can get married but it takes a devilish clever woman to remain an old maid, so that is the distinction I covet.
Patricia Wrightson and appropriation
by Michelle Scott Tucker. “White societies [display] the impulse to acquire whatever is of value in Indigenous culture while consigning the bearers of that culture to invisibility or extinction.” (Attebery)
“Sharp-eyed hussies”: John Dalley’s Women Novelists in Australia (1929)
by John Dalley (1876-1935) Author, editor and leader-writer John Dalley discusses the reaction of critics – especially family members – to work by Australian women writers. Note: Katharine Susannah Prichard, briefly mentioned below, was joint winner of The...
Georgiana Molloy: Collector of Seeds and Words
by Jessica White. I was out riding a few days back & the country was assuming its usual garb Hibbertias & Hoveas thickly covered the ground I dried two or three Specimens but not being able to gather them myself I did not get all I wanted
