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...Barbara Baynton, A dreamer (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...Frances Tyrell Gill, Cora (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,...
Florence Blair, Samoan Ghosts (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”.)...#AWW2025
