by Elizabeth Lhuede | Mar 6, 2024 | Essay, Poetry
Blue Mountains poet Minnie L Brackenreg (1858-1936) came to my attention by accident when looking for works published 100 years ago. A fellow Blue Mountains resident, identified only as “Tess”, wrote to the editor of the Blue Mountains Echo in November 1924, offering...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Jan 10, 2024 | Poetry
Welcome to a new year of highlighting the lives and works of early Australian women writers. This year, our commissioning editor Bill from The Australian Legend has chosen to focus on the theme, “The Independent Woman in Australian Literature”. Whispering...
by Stories from the Archive | Dec 8, 2023 | Poetry
by Rosamond Agnes Benham (1874-1923) I found my feet from under me Swept swiftly by that rushing sea Of feeling, in the one high tide That flows for most – that some outride To reach the land again. But free The waves came, and resistlessly They bore me toward the...
by Stories from the Archive | Dec 1, 2023 | Poetry
by Annie Rattray Rentoul (1882-1978) On Wednesday, Whispering Gums wrote about the early work of the talented sisters, illustrator Ida Rentoul Outhwaite and writer Annie Rattray Rentoul. As WG mentioned, the first known published work by Annie was a poem, “The comet...
by Stories from the Archive | Sep 8, 2023 | Poetry
by Nancy Hannah Hogan (1873-1905) The parable of the Mountain I slept: and me thought The people of the earth Were divided. And between them, a Mountain, Huge, seeming illimitable. Yet, could I see either side, And on the one Beautiful homes Set in the midst Of wide...
by Stories from the Archive | Aug 4, 2023 | Poetry
by May Kendall aka Adelina Mabel Kendall (1873-1953) Comic verse about two men and an automaton from a little-known Australian poet, published in 1906. Two men I know – Eugene and Joe – And one is always moping, The other’s bright and ready wit Doth keep him...
