Capel Boake and “The Grey Streets”

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

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

Daisy Bates, The Passing of the Aborigines

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...