Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
  • Home
  • About
  • AWW Index
    • Author Index
    • Miles Franklin
  • Stories from online archives
    • 1830s, 1840s and 1850s
    • 1860s
    • 1870s
    • 1880s
    • 1890s
    • 1900s
    • 1910s
    • 1920s
    • 1930s
    • 1940s
    • 1950s
    • 1960s
  • Contact
Select Page
Ernestine Hill, “The Strange Case of Mrs Widgety” (nonfiction extract)

Ernestine Hill, “The Strange Case of Mrs Widgety” (nonfiction extract)

by Stories from the Archive | Sep 23, 2022 | Extracts, 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)

Ernestine Hill, The Great Australian Loneliness (review)

by wadholloway | Sep 21, 2022 | Reviews

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

Writer Ernestine Hill (1899 – 1972): “A Pioneer of her Kind”

Writer Ernestine Hill (1899 – 1972): “A Pioneer of her Kind”

by Robyn Greaves | Jan 21, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts

For the first in our series of forgotten writers and classic books, Dr Robyn Greaves from the University of Tasmania writes on author Ernestine Hill who was born this day in 1899. Thanks, Robyn. Today, not many people have heard of Australian author Ernestine Hill. If...

Search blog content

Subscribe to Blog via Email

When you choose to follow the AWW blog, the name and email you enter are saved on the server. This information is stored to facilitate the process of sending you new posts. Your data is not used for any other purposes.

Join AWW groups

Follow

Categories

Tags

Australian Women Writers Challenge Awards Biography Children's Literature Classics Crime Crime fiction Debut Authors Diversity Dystopian fiction Erotica Fantasy Feminism Forgotten women writers General Fiction Historical crime fiction Historical fiction Historical romance History Horror Indigenous literature LGBTQI Literary Literary Awards Memoir Miles Franklin Miles Franklin Literary Award Mystery New Releases Non-fiction Paranormal Poetry Romance Romantic Suspense Rural romance Science fiction Short Stories Small presses Speculative fiction Stella Prize Thriller True crime YA fiction Young Adult Young Adult speculative fiction

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Follow Us

#AWW2023

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google
  • RSS
Copyright 2018 Australian Women Writers Challenge