Aboriginal domestic servants in colonial women’s fiction, 1854-1906
Aboriginal women’s domestic labour was vital for white women’s capacity to cultivate the well-ordered, moral home
Mrs Bode and a Question of Irony
by Elizabeth Lhuede Examines whether Mrs J A Bode’s “A Tale of Colonial Australia” can be read as an example of nineteenth-century Australian irony. When I initiated the Australian Women Writers challenge more than a decade ago, an Indigenous writer...
Louisa Atkinson, Gertrude the Emigrant (extract)
The thoughts of the peculiar people fast sinking into a heathen grave, and soon to be no more the dwellers in the land, could not fail to bring a sombre sensation of awe into each heart.
July 2018 Round-up: Classics and Literary
July has been and gone, and with it, I hope, the worst of winter down-under. We can now look forward to lengthening days and warmer temperatures (unless of course you are in the north and the days are about the same and the temperatures always warm.) Two awards were...
