Barbara Baynton, Human Toll
we must own that it will not please one man in twenty. But for that we must blame not the author’s genius, but our public’s aesthetic limitations.
Barbara Baynton, Indignity of domestic service (prose)
by Barbara Baynton “Do use your influence to send out a shipload of good servants. There are none to be got here for love or money. All the old ones are too independent and the young ones are all going to the factories.” In short, with a difference it was...
Learned spinster: Frances Tyrell Gill (article)
by Frances Gill Another in our series of lost or forgotten authors. Last month I attended a talk at the State Library of New South Wales entitled, “Tracing the life of a writer”. A panel hosted by Kate Evans, co-host of ABC’s weekly literary review program, consisted...
Amy E Mack, Along the Garden Avenue (nonfiction)
by Amy E Mack (1876-1939) On Wednesday, we introduced Amy Mack, a writer of fiction and non-fiction that dealt almost exclusively with nature. Today’s story is one of her newspaper columns. It features her description of the nature of a suburban street and the...
Amy Mack: “a nature-lover”
by Whispering Gums Introducing a writer who was popular in Australia in the early decades of the twentieth century. Amy Eleanor Mack (1876-1939) was an Australian writer, journalist, and editor. One of thirteen children born in Port Adelaide to Irish-born parents,...
Kylie Tennant, The Battlers (review)
by Bronwyn. ‘It’s men,’ she said. ‘Everywhere you go they’re runnin’ things. Tryin’ to down you. And women, too. All of ‘em rotten.’
