by Guest Contributor | May 8, 2024 | Reviews
By Sue/Whispering Gums. Australia was a leader in women’s suffrage by being the first nation to legislate suffrage for all white adult Australian women, without property qualifications, and to enable those women to stand for parliament [but] it was just for white women.
by Janine Rizzetti | Apr 26, 2017 | Round-ups
Stella Prize contenders I’m writing this roundup of the March reviews in the History, Memoir and Biography category in April, with the Stella Prize announcement in today’s papers. Two of the shortlisted memoirs continued to attract attention during March. Maxine...
by Debbie Robson | Dec 21, 2015 | Round-ups
19 reviews this month so a lot of us have been busy! And not just Christmas shopping. Many of the reviews are very familiar titles that I have featured over the last few months – The Strays by Emily Bitto, The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks, The Wild Girl and...
by Paula | Apr 29, 2014 | News
Congratulations to historian Clare Wright who has won the 2014 Stella Prize with The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, her second book which took ten years to research and write. The winner was announced tonight at a ceremony in Sydney which was MC’d by Caroline Baum and...
by Yvonne Perkins | Mar 30, 2014 | Interviews
Clare Wright’s history of the Ballarat goldfields, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, has been shortlisted for this year’s Stella Prize. In this interview with the Australian Women Writers’ Challenge, Wright talks about writing and the place of women in Australian history as well as sharing some of the responses she has had to her book.
