by Elizabeth Lhuede | Aug 2, 2023 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of forgotten Australian women writers. In 1907, The Catholic Press published the following column which referred to writers belonging to literary families: We have several examples in Australia of the Literary and artistic...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Jun 7, 2023 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of forgotten Australian women writers. Florence Baverstock, poet, short story writer, journalist and editor, was born Louisa Florence Blair in 1860. Her father, David Blair, emigrated to Australia from Ireland in 1850 and...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Apr 4, 2023 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede This latest essay in our forgotten author series focusses on Margaret Ann McCarter née Kinahan (1861-1913), aka Mrs McCarter. Finding forgotten authors is sometimes a matter of luck. Last year, I was working on an entry for Marjorie Weatherley,...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Mar 1, 2023 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of forgotten Australian women writers: Bella Guerin (1858-1923). Back in February, the Trove Facebook page posted the question, “Have you used Trove to research women’s history?” Accompanying the post was a photo of a group of...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Feb 1, 2023 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede A short account of writer, journalist and feminist, Ada A Homan, née Kidgell (1869-1949). When I come across an author in the AustLit database who has only one publication and no biography listed, my detective nose twitches. While Ada A Kidgell may...