Capel Boake: Three short stories, and more
by Whispering Gums More on the writer, Capel Boake, with particular reference to three short stories. We introduced Boake in two posts in September, an overview post and a short story, “The room next door”....
Miles Franklin, The Old Post (short story)
by Miles Franklin A square post, warped and darkened by weather and time, stands amongst the bushes, beside a great white road, which drops from view behind a broad, sweep pf western horizon. A big iguana blinks his eyes in the noonday glare, as he basks on the grey...
Miles Franklin in America
They say any fool can get married but it takes a devilish clever woman to remain an old maid, so that is the distinction I covet.
Lesbia Keogh, “Angel” (short story)
by Lesbia Keogh (1891-1927) The following short story, written by Lesbia Vennor Harford (née Keogh), was written when the author was only 11 years old. “Angel, darling, you must play outside this afternoon.” The child at the door of the homestead, with its great cool...
Lesbia Harford
by Jonathan Shaw. [Harford] was an intellectual, an ex-Catholic, a factory worker, an activist, a free spirit, a lover, a tutor and a student: all of these fed her poetry.
Jessie Maria Goldney, A Daisy Crushed (short story)
by Jessie Maria Goldney (1849-1923) A young woman, the “flower” of her village, falls for the wastrel brother of a school friend. It was on a bright clear spring afternoon, when the birds were warbling sweetly amongst the green trees, and the flowers and...Writer, teacher, farmer’s daughter: Jessie Maria Goldney
In my search for forgotten Australian women writers, I have come across several authors listed in the Australian Newspaper Fiction Database whose names have yet to be entered on the AustLit database. Finding anything about the lives of many of these authors would...
Capel Boake, The Room Next Door (short story)
by Capel Boake [Doris Boake Kerr] (1899-1944) A young woman suffering a betrayal lends a helping hand to a neighbour in need. (This short story appeared in The Australasian in 1926.) The young man in the next room coughed — a hard, racking cough that seemed to tear...
