Miles Franklin, My Career Goes Bung (review)
A wallaby would have done just as well as a human being to endure the nothingness of existence as it has been known to me
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.
