Eleanor Dark, Slow Dawning (review)
by Debbie Robson. To me, as a reader in the 21st century the novel is not the melodrama that Dark and even her biographer, Barbara Brooks, claims it is. I found the book a wonderful barometer of the twenties.
Brent of Bin Bin
by Bill Holloway. In all, six novels appeared under the Brent of Bin Bin name, following the Mazere, Labosseer and Poole families
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.
