by wadholloway | Jan 18, 2023 | Reviews
In the hundred years that had elapsed since I had known the world, first had come a cataclysm sweeping away the old foundations and much that had been reared upon them, and from these had gradually emerged a new society
by Stories from the Archive | Jun 10, 2022 | Nonfiction extract
by Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) On writing fiction – extracted from Spence’s discussion of a contemporary essay on literary aspiration. The creative omnipotence of the poet and the novelist, who, summons so many spirits to do his bidding, has no...
by wadholloway | Jun 8, 2022 | Guest Posts, Reviews
by Emma|Book Around the Corner: Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910). Australian Social and Political Reformer, Writer and Teacher who worked for Children
by Janine Rizzetti | Apr 25, 2018 | Round-ups
After a quiet February, there was more activity in the History Memoir and Biography category this month, with 22 reviews of 19 books during March. Interestingly, they were either memoir or biography, with no history books reviewed at all. However, biography certainly...
