Louisa Atkinson, pioneer woman journalist
by Whispering Gums An article on the early Australian writer and botanist, Louisa Atkinson (1834-1872), complementing our previous posts on her, Bill Holloway’s review of her novel Gertrude the emigrant, and an extract from that novel....
Suffering, resistance and resilience
by Elizabeth Lhuede Representations of Indigenous people in works by Eliza Dunlop, Louisa Atkinson, Amy Susannah Staniforth, and Marie Braithwaite. While compiling the pages for our archive, I’ve come across several poems and stories by early Australian women...
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.
Louisa Atkinson, Gertrude the Emigrant (review)
by Bill Holloway. The ‘first’ Australian novel is contested, but Gertrude the Emigrant: A Tale of Colonial Life (1857) is the first novel whose author was born in Australia.
