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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
