AWW Generation 3, 1920 – 1960 (list)
An annotated list of Australian women writers who began writing after WWI, during the Depression, and up to the end of the fifties/early sixties
Eve Langley
You ask … are we masquerading as boys. No, we are masquerading as life. We are in search of a country … the promised land
Nellie A Evans, “Triolets” (poem)
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of posts on authors with works published in 1924. One of six children, Nellie A Evans was born in the mid 1880s to a Mr William Evans, resident of “Roslyn”, in the Goulburn district of NSW. Nellie, along with her...
Jean Curlewis and “The bomb shop”
by Whispering Gums A post in our series featuring works published in 1924 (or by authors who died in 1924). This post is an article that was published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 31 May1924, and is by the Sydney-born daughter of a Ethel Turner....
Dorothy Hewett, Bobbin Up
by Kim Forrester Dorothy Hewett (1923-2002) was from a well-off farming family in Western Australia. She did her primary schooling at home on the family wheat farm, but when they moved to Perth, attended Perth College, an Anglican girls school, and then UWA. She...
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...#AWW2025
