Catherine Helen Spence, Clara Morison (extract)
by Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910). There had been for some months, as has already been hinted, a stagnation of business, and a great want of money in South Australia
Catherine Helen Spence, A week in the future (fiction extract)
by Catherine Helen Spence Spence’s science fiction novel, A week in the future, was first published in 1888. We originally intended to publish the following to accompany Bill’s piece on the book in January, but somehow the scheduling got mixed up. The...
Camden Morrisby, A novelist I know: Kylie Tennant (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...
Kylie Tennant, Tiburon (novel 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...
Miles Franklin, Alice Henry (newspaper story)
The editors educated women to understand that the unorganised woman worker was always at the mercy of the unscrupulous employer.
April Hersey, Back to the battling (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...#AWW2025
