The ink-quester: Nancy Hogan (essay)
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of forgotten Australian women writers: Nancy Hannah Hogan (1873-1905) aka Julia Demos. As I compile the archives for works by early Australian women writers, I keep wondering about the factors which develop and sustain a...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...
Amy Mack, Bushland stories
by Whispering Gums Two months ago, we introduced Amy Mack, a popular Australian writer in the early decades of the twentieth century. In this post, we focus on one of her best known books, Bushland stories To recap our first post on her, Amy Eleanor Mack...
Maud Jeanne Franc, Vermont Vale (review)
With the simple details of everyday life, at least in some of its phases, the author has endeavoured to blend a few of those clear Gospel truths that are able to make wise unto salvation with the blessing of the Holy Spirit upon them
Matilda Evans alias Maud Jeanne Franc
by Nathan Hobby Nathan is a biographer who did his PhD on writing biography. He is naturally interested in how other writers portray their subjects. Here he discusses Matilda Jane Evans (1827-1886) who wrote under the name Maud Jeanne Franc. In 1882 she gave up...Ellen Davitt, Force and fraud (fiction extract)
by Ellen Davitt (1812-1879) writing as Mrs Arthur Davitt An extract from the first chapter of Ellen Davitt’s novel, Force and fraud, which appeared in The Australian journal in 1865. FORCE AND FRAUD; A TALE OF THE BUSH. BY MRS. ARTHUR DAVITT. Author of ”...
Ellen Davitt, Force and Fraud (review)
that narrative mode [detective as hero] had not gained genre dominance. An alternative model equally existed, splitting the role of detective among various characters: Lucy Sussex
Mary Grant Bruce, A little bush maid (fiction extract)
by Mary Grant Bruce (1878-1958) To complement Michelle Scott Tucker’s essay on Mary Grant Bruce’s iconic Billabong books, we present Chapter 1 of A little bush maid, the initial book in the series. (As Michelle warns, the series contains outdated values...
Mary Grant Bruce, Billabong Series
My newest favourite character, Norah Linton, lived with her widowed father and beloved older brother on a huge and prosperous farming property, called Billabong, in country Victoria in the early 1900s
