by Stories from the Archive | Dec 9, 2022 | Poetry
by Ettie E Bode nee Ayliffe (1836-1920) This poem appeared in a centenary anthology, Australian Poets: 1788-1888. Ours was the land, all ours, mine and my people’s: the tribes, To roam at will, to dwell, to hunt and to fish in, We were the lords of the soil, the...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Dec 7, 2022 | Essay
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...
