by Stories from the Archive | Jul 28, 2023 | Short story
by Barbara Baynton A short story, the first in the collection, Bush studies (1902). A swirl of wet leaves from the night-hidden trees decorating the little station beat against the closed doors of the carriages. The porter hurried along holding his blear-eyed lantern...
by Stories from the Archive | Jul 7, 2023 | Short story
by Frances Gill An ambitious young Melbourne woman, eager to experience London’s cultural life and to find her wayward brother, puts duty above her own desires and moves to the country to care for her orphaned half-siblings. Chapter I “If life is well lived,...
by Stories from the Archive | Jun 9, 2023 | Short story
by Florence Blair, “A Victorian girl” (1860-1937) A tale in which “A Victorian girl” is guided by Laulii, a reteller of ghost stories and Samoa’s first female English-language author. (Originally published as “Samoan bogies”.)...
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...
