by Stories from the Archive | Apr 8, 2022 | Essay, Nonfiction extract
by Frances Emily Russell, writing as Mrs H. E. Russell Frances Emily Russell nee Robey (1846 to 1899) wrote novels as “Mrs H E Russell” and nonfiction columns as “Eucalypta”. In a rare essay published using her married name, she argues against...
by Stories from the Archive | Apr 1, 2022 | Nonfiction extract
In her article earlier this week on Secondary Sources for early Australian women writers, Sue from Whispering Gums mentioned what a treasure of a resource is Trove. It’s a “meta”-resource, containing within it many other secondary sources on...
by Stories from the Archive | Mar 18, 2022 | Nonfiction extract
by Rachel Henning On Wednesday Bill Holloway posted a review of The Letters of Rachel Henning edited by David Adams, a work originally serialised in the Bulletin in 1951-52. Bill points out that Adams cut Henning’s original letters to create “a continuous,...
by Stories from the Archive | Mar 11, 2022 | Nonfiction extract
by Zora Cross, writing as “Bernice May” In his discussion of Zara Cross, Jonathan Shaw referred to the mentoring Cross had received from Ethel Turner, the Children’s Corner editor known as “Dame Durden”, with whom Cross had corresponded...
by Stories from the Archive | Feb 25, 2022 | Nonfiction extract
by Louisa Anne Meredith (1812-1895) Extract from Notes and Sketches of New South Wales (1844), an autobiographical account of Meredith’s embarkation from England on her journey to the other side of the world. CHAPTER I. Embarkation—Indisposition—Pleasures of a...
by Stories from the Archive | Feb 11, 2022 | Nonfiction extract
by Elizabeth Fenton If the earliest women writers who lived in and wrote about Australia were correspondents, diarists and journal writers, among the earliest must be Mrs Elizabeth Fenton (1804-1875). Her journal, titled The Journal of Mrs. Fenton: a narrative of her...
