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.
Bev Roberts ed., Miss D and Miss N: an extraordinary partnership (Review)
The relationship between Drysdale and Newcomb is, in a low key way, occasionally celebrated by the queer community. But the diary provides few insights into the women’s emotional lives
Daisy Bates, The Passing of the Aborigines
by Bill Holloway There was a time when Daisy Bates (1859-1951), a strange old woman living in a tent in a remote Trans-Australia railway way-station and Aboriginal camp, was one of the best known women in Australia. From the time she arrived in Western Australia in...
Christina Stead, A Writer’s Friends
“It was accepted by this time at school that I was a writer; and I accepted it simply, too, without thinking about it.”
Christina Stead, Ocean of story, Pt 1: The early years – Australia (Review)
by Whispering Gums Another post on a piece from the collection of Christina Stead stories, Ocean of Story. Today’s post continues our project of reviewing Ocean of story: The uncollected stories of Christina Stead, which was edited by R.G. Geering and...#AWW2025
