by Elizabeth Lhuede | Oct 7, 2022 | Short story
by Jessie Maria Goldney (1849-1923) A young woman, the “flower” of her village, falls for the wastrel brother of a school friend. It was on a bright clear spring afternoon, when the birds were warbling sweetly amongst the green trees, and the flowers and...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Sep 30, 2022 | Short story
by Capel Boake [Doris Boake Kerr] (1899-1944) A young woman suffering a betrayal lends a helping hand to a neighbour in need. (This short story appeared in The Australasian in 1926.) The young man in the next room coughed — a hard, racking cough that seemed to tear...
by wadholloway | Jul 20, 2022 | Reviews
by Bill Holloway. At Adelonga she meets the ne’er-do-weel (of course) Roden Dalrymple, who it is said has killed a man in a duel over a woman
by Stories from the Archive | Jul 8, 2022 | Short story
by E Charles E Charles was the pseudonym for E C Morrice, born Elizabeth Charlotte Bingmann (1851-1941) THE hot Australian sunshine was streaming down upon the parched earth, burning up the last dry herbage in the bare paddocks, drying up the last yellow puddles of...
by Stories from the Archive | Mar 4, 2022 | Short story
by Marie Braithwaite, writing as “Jack Rugby” (circa 1861-1927) The following short story, “Betty Pops the Question” (1906), was mentioned in a discussion of representations of Indigenous people earlier this week. [Note on vocabulary:...
