Mary Gaunt (2)

Mary Gaunt (2)

Bronwyn. “the Volta River is entrancingly lovely. It’s quiet reaches are like deep lakes in whose clear surface is mirrored the calm blue sky, the fleecy clouds and hills clothed in the densest green”

Mary Gaunt, Quits (short story)

Mary Gaunt, Quits (short story)

by Mary Gaunt (1861-1942) After braving the dual peril of floods and bushrangers, rural women face a moral dilemma. Gaunt’s short story, “Quits”, was first published in Windsor Magazine in Dec 1898 and reprinted in The Broad Arrow Standard in...
Mary Gaunt, Quits (short story)

Mary Gaunt

by Bronwyn. [Mary Gaunt was] an extraordinary woman. Independent and adventurous as well as articulate, opinionated and determined, in a time when women were not encouraged to be any of these things.