by Stories from the Archive | May 6, 2022 | Short story
by Isabel Grant (c1870-1952) A “pre-millennial” horror story by Isabel Grant, published in 1909. A “new-chum” Scottish nurse working in a mental asylum keeps her cool when a patient suffering from religious mania threatens to wreak destruction....
by Stories from the Archive | Mar 25, 2022 | Short story
Mary Theresa Vidal (1815-1873) writing as Mrs Francis Vidal On Wednesday, Stacey Roberts discussed her use of the AWW archive to help with her Honours thesis. Today’s fiction selection, “Thomas and Anne Thompson”, is by one of the authors she’s...
by Stories from the Archive | Mar 4, 2022 | Short story
by Marie Braithwaite, writing as “Jack Rugby” (circa 1861-1927) The following short story, “Betty Pops the Question” (1906), was mentioned in a discussion of representations of Indigenous people earlier this week. [Note on vocabulary:...