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Jeannie Gunn, We of the Never Never (extract)

Jeannie Gunn, We of the Never Never (extract)

by Stories from the Archive | Jun 16, 2023 | Fiction

“Me savey scrub ’im, and sweep ’im, and wash ’im, and blue ’im, and starch ’im,” she said glibly

Caroline Leakey, The Broad Arrow (fiction extract)

Caroline Leakey, The Broad Arrow (fiction extract)

by Stories from the Archive | May 19, 2023 | Fiction

by Caroline Leakey (1827-1881) writing as “Oliné Keese” The Broad Arrow, the tale of a female convict, was reviewed here on Wednesday. The following extract portrays the moment of the lead character Maida’s downfall. At the door of an humble lodging-house,...
Jeannie Gunn, The black princess (fiction extract)

Jeannie Gunn, The black princess (fiction extract)

by Stories from the Archive | May 12, 2023 | Fiction

by Jeannie Gunn (1870-1861) On Wednesday, Stacey Roberts discussed “Aboriginal domestic servants in colonial women’s fiction”, and mentioned the following “washing day” scene from Jeannie Gunn’s The Little Black Princess. Roberts’...
Helen Simpson, Under Capricorn (fiction extract)

Helen Simpson, Under Capricorn (fiction extract)

by Stories from the Archive | Apr 28, 2023 | Fiction

by Helen Simpson (1897-1940) BOOK ONE (i) The year, eighteen hundred and thirty-one. The place, Sydney; a city whose streets were first laid by men in chains for the easier progress of the soldiers who guarded I them. This city, growing slowly about a population of...
Active Service Socks

Active Service Socks

by wadholloway | Apr 21, 2023 | Nonfiction extract

by Miles Franklin. Old Kajmackalan,a Kosciusko of these regions, which a year ago felt in one of the fiercest battles of the war, already has a crown of snow, some weeks old.

Miles Franklin, Nemari ništa (It matters nothing)

Miles Franklin, Nemari ništa (It matters nothing)

by wadholloway | Apr 14, 2023 | Novel extract

These comments of a camp cook upon experiences gained as a voluntary member of the army of the British Red Cross are submitted unpretentiously for what they are worth as a document of the war.

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