by Narelle Ontivero | Oct 28, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Tasma, a little-known literary gem of colonial Australia, was the pseudonym of Jessie Catherine Huybers, later Mrs Charles Fraser, and afterwards Mrs Auguste Couvreur. As her collection of names suggest, Tasma lived an extraordinarily unconventional life as she...
by Meg Brayshaw | Aug 28, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Above my desk I keep a black and white photograph of a woman sitting outside on a bench in a checked house dress, casually leaning next to an enormous pile of papers. The woman is Eleanor Dark, and the pile of papers is the manuscript for Storm of Time (1948), the...
by Morgan Burgess | Jun 3, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Another in our series of classic or forgotten Australian authors, Morgan Burgess features Barbara Baynton. Thanks, Morgan. Barbara Baynton has become one of Australia’s most celebrated colonial writers despite her relatively small oeuvre. The daughter of Irish...
by Morgan Burgess | May 13, 2017 | Article
A dream? What is dreaming? Some explain most learnedly how it is caused by certain conditions of the body. May not some dreams cause those certain conditions? (105) Thus declares the narrator at the close of Henrietta Dugdale’s only novel, A Few Hours in a Far Off...
