Ada Cambridge, The Fourth Home (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...
Daisy Bates, Aboriginal Stellar Myths (nonfiction extract)
by Daisy Bates. Tribes, now far apart, whose very dialect has changed in the centuries, possess myths and legends whose similarity is evidence of tribal unity in some far-off time.
Hannah Villiers Boyd, Letters on Education (nonfiction extract)
by Hannah Villiers Boyd (1807-c1865) Hannah Villiers Boyd emigrated from Ireland to Australia in 1841. She wrote two books, including a series of letters on the instruction of young ladies in remote Australia, published in 1848. The following passages are extracted...
Catherine Helen Spence, The Literary Calling (nonfiction extract)
by Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) On writing fiction – extracted from Spence’s discussion of a contemporary essay on literary aspiration. The creative omnipotence of the poet and the novelist, who, summons so many spirits to do his bidding, has no...
