Jessie Urquhart, Hodden Grey (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...
Louisa Lawson, A General Servant (story, part 2/2)
Poor Bertha cried bitterly, she was proud and could bear anything, but disgrace broke her down. She felt that her sister had ruined all her prospects in life
Louisa Lawson, A General Servant (story, part 1/2)
I’VE got it,” exclaimed Mary, excitedly flourishing the letter she had been reading. “Got what?” questioned her mother. “The situation !”
Ethel Mills, The Chee child (1905, short story)
by Ethel Mills Primrose (1870-1951) “The Chee child: a story for children” first appeared as “The China child” in 1902, and was revised and reprinted under a different title in 1905 in Pall Mall magazine. The Pall Mall version is reprinted here, not only...Amy Mack, Her coup-de-theatre (short story)
by Amy Mack (1876-1939), writing as “Fayre” They had been engaged for a year and a half, but lately she had noticed that his love was beginning to cool. He never talked in the old, rapturous way of “some day,” and their daily meetings had dwindled down to...#AWW2025
