by Stories from the Archive | Feb 17, 2023 | Nonfiction extract
by Camden Morrisby This article by Camden Morrisby appeared in The bulletin in June 1953, nearly a decade after the publication of Kylie Tennan’ts novel, Ride on Stranger, the topic of Bill’s post on Wednesday. As Morrisby’s work is still in...
by Stories from the Archive | Feb 10, 2023 | Nonfiction extract
by Kylie Tennant (1912-1988) Kylie Tennant’s novel, Tiburon, won the S H Prior Memorial prize for 1935. Illustrated by Norman Lindsay, it was serialised in The bulletin from September 1935 to January 1936. An extract from the novel’s opening is given...
by Stories from the Archive | Dec 23, 2022 | Nonfiction extract
by April Hersey (1924-2020) On Wednesday, Bill discussed Kylie Tennant’s Ma Jones and the little white cannibals. The following extract is from of an article by April Hersey which was published in The bulletin in 1967. The piece gives an insight into...
by Stories from the Archive | Dec 16, 2022 | Nonfiction extract
by Mary Gaunt On Wednesday, Bronwyn continued her discussion of Mary Gaunt and her work, focusing on her travel writings of the 1910s. The following extract is from Gaunt’s memoir, Alone in West Africa. The context: Gaunt has sent a load of luggage ahead of the...
by Stories from the Archive | Sep 23, 2022 | Extracts, Nonfiction extract
By Ernestine Hill (1899-1972) For her journalistic piece, “The Strange Case of Mrs Widgety” (1933), Ernestine Hill travelled to the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, and interviewed Mrs Becky Forbes, an English woman who emigrated to Australia and married...
by wadholloway | Aug 19, 2022 | Nonfiction extract
by Ada Cambridge Ada Cambridge’s fourth home in Australia was Ballan, where she and her husband, George Cross, arrived in 1875. This extract is from Chapter X of Cambridge’s memoir Thirty Years in Australia. Sad indeed was the breaking-up of that pleasant...
