by whisperinggums | Mar 27, 2024 | Essay, Short story
by Whispering Gums A post in our series featuring works published in 1924 (or by authors who died in 1924). This post’s subject is a short story published in Melbourne’s The Weekly Times on 1 March 1924, by the Victorian born writer, Alice C Tomholt. Alice...
by Stories from the Archive | Feb 7, 2024 | Short story
by Alys Hungerford (1857-1934) Introduction Alys Hungerford has been described variously as “the blind poetess” and “blind authoress and playwright”. Two sources give us insight into her life. The first is a piece by Lesley Abrahams, published...
by whisperinggums | Jan 31, 2024 | Essay, Short story
by Whispering Gums A post in our series featuring works published in 1924 (or by authors who died in 1924). This post’s subject is a short column published in Adelaide’s Saturday Journal on 17 August 1924, by the South Australian born, Marion Simons, under...
by wadholloway | Dec 15, 2023 | Short story
Today I detest even the picture of a Hereford cow. I loathe their white-washed faces, for I have ridden behind them, with eight of my own drovers, for six months, 1,000 miles as the route went but some 3,000 as I rode it
by Stories from the Archive | Nov 17, 2023 | Short story
by Jean Curlewis (1898-1930) A maiden lady discovers a cure for loneliness. At the post-office Miss Eldridge felt suddenly even more lonely than usual. She collected the magazine which constituted her entire mail, and turned wistfully away from the little social...
by Stories from the Archive | Nov 3, 2023 | Short story
by Jessie Urquhart (1890-1948) A rural short story from 1930. It was hot work hilling potatoes. Raking the dry clods of earth about the milky stalks, with the sun pressing closer and closer, like the lid of an iron box, on the top of one’s head, and the...