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Ernestine Hill, “The Strange Case of Mrs Widgety” (nonfiction extract)

Ernestine Hill, “The Strange Case of Mrs Widgety” (nonfiction extract)

by Stories from the Archive | Sep 23, 2022 | Extracts, Nonfiction extract

By Ernestine Hill (1899-1972) For her journalistic piece, “The Strange Case of Mrs Widgety” (1933), Ernestine Hill travelled to the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, and interviewed Mrs Becky Forbes, an English woman who emigrated to Australia and married...
Ernestine Hill, The Great Australian Loneliness (review)

Ernestine Hill, The Great Australian Loneliness (review)

by wadholloway | Sep 21, 2022 | Reviews

It was in July, 1930, that I first set out, a wandering ‘copy boy’ with swag and typewriter, to find what lay beyond the railway lines. Across the painted deserts and the pearling seas

Rosa Praed, The Sea-birds’ Message (short story)

Rosa Praed, The Sea-birds’ Message (short story)

by Stories from the Archive | Sep 16, 2022 | Short story

by Mrs Campbell Praed (1851-1935) There is a great lake in one of the inland districts of Northern Australia. It is closed in by green ranges, which slope down to a beach of silvery sand. It has no outlet for its waters, which are salt as the sea. Pelicans and wild...
R McKay Tully, The Power of a Child (short story)

R McKay Tully, The Power of a Child (short story)

by Stories from the Archive | Sep 9, 2022 | Short story

by R McKay Tully Having given up working the land after many years of drought, a man loses his way in the outback. This short story first appeared in 1903 in The Dawn. “High noon, not a cloud in the sky,” quoted Ted Morris as he staggered out of the dense scrub...
M.G.B., Her Little Lad (fiction extract)

M.G.B., Her Little Lad (fiction extract)

by Stories from the Archive | Jul 1, 2022 | Fiction

by Mary Grant Bruce (1878-1958) Mary Grant Bruce’s juvenilia, including her short story, “Her Little Lad”, featured in our Wednesday essay this week. As her work is still in copyright it can only be extracted here. The full story can be read on...
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