Ventured North by Train and Truck
In 1927 Katherine Susannah Prichard ventured north (from Perth) by train and truck to stay with “a friend whose husband owned a cattle station”.
Ernestine Hill, “The Strange Case of Mrs Widgety” (nonfiction extract)
By Ernestine Hill (1899-1972) For her journalistic piece, “The Strange Case of Mrs Widgety” (1933), Ernestine Hill travelled to the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, and interviewed Mrs Becky Forbes, an English woman who emigrated to Australia and married...
Ernestine Hill, The Great Australian Loneliness (review)
It was in July, 1930, that I first set out, a wandering ‘copy boy’ with swag and typewriter, to find what lay beyond the railway lines. Across the painted deserts and the pearling seas
