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Mabel Forrest, “Frances Floriline” (short story)

Mabel Forrest, “Frances Floriline” (short story)

by Stories from the Archive | May 26, 2023 | Short story

by Mable Forrest (1872-1935) writing as “Reca” On Wednesday, Stacey Roberts posted an article on “Female Domestic Servants”, in which she mentioned the following story about a young wife of a station owner whose desire to impress as a bush...

Norah Skeffington Carroll, The conversion of a celibate (short story)

by Stories from the Archive | May 5, 2023 | Short story

by Norah Skeffington Carroll (c1886-1954) The neatly dressed Reporter Girl of The Cynic stepped briskly into the elevator, that was to take her to the floor wherein Hiram H. Hoyt, the prominent broker and financier, had his office. Four of the other occupants of the...

Mrs McCarter, Over-stepping (short story)

by Stories from the Archive | Apr 7, 2023 | Short story

by Margaret Ann McCarter (1861-1913) A short story with a conservative moral sense, “Overstepping” gives a picture of late nineteenth-century rural Victorian life and values. “Well, Clara dear, we have had a hard battle, but at last we have won, and...
Louise Mack, In a country school (short story)

Louise Mack, In a country school (short story)

by Stories from the Archive | Feb 24, 2023 | Short story

by Louise Mack (1870-1935) A proud country school teacher meets his match in a pupil’s equally proud mother. When Ernest Rawson, B.A., was appointed to the head-mastership of Waradgeree Superior Public School, the town hugged itself complacently, and imagined...
Ada A Kidgell, The triumphant candidate

Ada A Kidgell, The triumphant candidate

by Stories from the Archive | Feb 3, 2023 | Short story

by Ada A Kidgell (1869-1949) Ada A Holman (née Kidgell), wife of the first “Labour” premier of New South Wales, published the following story in 1898, when she was only 19. Set more than ten years in the author’s future, the story not only predicts...
“Tasma”, The Rubria Ghost (short story)

“Tasma”, The Rubria Ghost (short story)

by Stories from the Archive | Dec 2, 2022 | Short story

Jessie Catherine Couvreur (1848-1897), writing as “Tasma”. Published in 1878 in The Australian Ladies’ Annual, “The Rubria Ghost” concerns a young wife, “chained” to an ancient husband, who meets a ghost by moonlight on the...
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