Jean Curlewis
by Debbie Robson. .. more than anything what I value now, looking back on each of the novels (wishing she hadn’t died so young) is the way Curlewis evokes place
Christina Stead, A Waker and Dreamer (review)
“David’s appearance of whiteness, fairness, dazzled himself.” He was so sure of his own rightness that anyone who opposed him must therefore be evil.
E C Morrice, “Molly’s dilemma” (short story)
by Elizabeth Charlotte Bingmann, aka E C Morrice (1851-1941) A “hoydenish” girl’s plans come awry when she tries to play matchmaker for her sister. Janet Arden laid down the “Sydney Mail” with a sigh. She had been looking at the illustrations of the...
Zora Cross
by Jonathan Shaw. ‘Love Sonnets’, whose exuberant expressions of female desire – unprecedented in Australian literature – struck a chord with young men and women separated by World War One.
