Christina Stead, A Writer’s Friends
“It was accepted by this time at school that I was a writer; and I accepted it simply, too, without thinking about it.”
Capel Boake: Three short stories, and more
by Whispering Gums More on the writer, Capel Boake, with particular reference to three short stories. We introduced Boake in two posts in September, an overview post and a short story, “The room next door”....
Suffering, resistance and resilience
by Elizabeth Lhuede Representations of Indigenous people in works by Eliza Dunlop, Louisa Atkinson, Amy Susannah Staniforth, and Marie Braithwaite. While compiling the pages for our archive, I’ve come across several poems and stories by early Australian women...
Children’s and Young Adult Round-up: July 2021
July saw three states plunged back into lockdowns, making up half the population. Greater Sydney and several of its surrounding regions are still in lockdown, and I had wondered how this might alter our reading habits. In books for those under about thirteen – for the...
Children’s and Young Adult Round Up: April 2021
Welcome to another edition of the Children’s and Young Adult Round Up! Another month gone, and many more books read with some interesting statistics. We were down to twenty from twenty-three for kids’ books and had eight young adult entries. So in terms of numbers,...#AWW2025
