Tasma, Uncle Piper of Piper’s Hill
[wives are] to be petted and made much of when things are going well, and to be severely knocked about when anything goes wrong.
Janette M. Bomford, That Dangerous and Persuasive Woman: Vida Goldstein
By Janine Rizetti. [Vida] was mainstream middle-class, stylishly dressed and a very capable public speaker, and she spearheaded the ‘No’ case during the Conscription referendum campaigns.
Clare Wright, You Daughters of Freedom
By Sue/Whispering Gums. Australia was a leader in women’s suffrage by being the first nation to legislate suffrage for all white adult Australian women, without property qualifications, and to enable those women to stand for parliament [but] it was just for white women.
Capel Boake and “The Grey Streets”
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of posts on works published in 1924 (or authors who died in 1924). Melbourne writer Doris Boake Kerr (1889-1944), who published under the pseudonym of “Capel Boake”, is already known to AWW readers; Whispering Gums, aka Sue...
Catherine Helen Spence
a member of a church which allows women to speak in the pulpit, a citizen of a State which gives womanhood a vote for the Assembly, a citizen of a Commonwealth which fully enfranchises me for both Senate and Representatives
Eleanor Dark, Timeless Land trilogy (review)
By Jennifer Cameron-Smith
At night the land took back the silence of its centuries, and lay passive as it had done since the dawn of time under the indifferent stars.
