by Stories from the Archive | Dec 9, 2022 | Poetry
by Ettie E Bode nee Ayliffe (1836-1920) This poem appeared in a centenary anthology, Australian Poets: 1788-1888. Ours was the land, all ours, mine and my people’s: the tribes, To roam at will, to dwell, to hunt and to fish in, We were the lords of the soil, the...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Dec 7, 2022 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede Examines whether Mrs J A Bode’s “A Tale of Colonial Australia” can be read as an example of nineteenth-century Australian irony. When I initiated the Australian Women Writers challenge more than a decade ago, an Indigenous writer...
by Stories from the Archive | 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 | Oct 5, 2022 | Essay
In my search for forgotten Australian women writers, I have come across several authors listed in the Australian Newspaper Fiction Database whose names have yet to be entered on the AustLit database. Finding anything about the lives of many of these authors would...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Jun 1, 2022 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede Finding forgotten and overlooked Australian women writers: the case of Mrs Thomas Charles Cloud aka “Lindsay Duncan”. How often are women remembered by their relationship with the men in their lives? And to what extent does resorting to...
