Miles Franklin, My Career Goes Bung (review)
A wallaby would have done just as well as a human being to endure the nothingness of existence as it has been known to me
Mrs H E Russell, Womanhood Suffrage (nonfiction extract)
by Frances Emily Russell, writing as Mrs H. E. Russell Frances Emily Russell nee Robey (1846 to 1899) wrote novels as “Mrs H E Russell” and nonfiction columns as “Eucalypta”. In a rare essay published using her married name, she argues against...
Finding Forgotten Authors: the case of “Eucalypta”
by Elizabeth Lhuede Researching forgotten and overlooked Australian women writers. While compiling the archive of online texts by Australian women writers, I come across many of the writers’ names are new to me, writers whose lives, work and contribution to...Early Australian women poets and “sex-prejudice” (nonfiction extract)
In her article earlier this week on Secondary Sources for early Australian women writers, Sue from Whispering Gums mentioned what a treasure of a resource is Trove. It’s a “meta”-resource, containing within it many other secondary sources on...
Early Australian women writers, 2: Secondary sources
by Whispering Gums The second part of a two-part series on sources, for those interested in reading and researching Australia’s 19th- and earlier 20th-century women writers, including those who may not have achieved prominence in their lifetimes, or whose works...
Mrs Francis Vidal, Tales For the Bush 1 (short story)
Mary Theresa Vidal (1815-1873) writing as Mrs Francis Vidal On Wednesday, Stacey Roberts discussed her use of the AWW archive to help with her Honours thesis. Today’s fiction selection, “Thomas and Anne Thompson”, is by one of the authors she’s...
Exploring the AWWC Archives
by Stacey Roberts. “Not only was there a helpful, exhaustive list of female Australian writers, but they were in chronological order and had a direct link to their works.”
Rachel Henning Writes from Exmoor (nonfiction extract)
by Rachel Henning On Wednesday Bill Holloway posted a review of The Letters of Rachel Henning edited by David Adams, a work originally serialised in the Bulletin in 1951-52. Bill points out that Adams cut Henning’s original letters to create “a continuous,...
