by Stories from the Archive | Dec 16, 2022 | Nonfiction extract
by Mary Gaunt On Wednesday, Bronwyn continued her discussion of Mary Gaunt and her work, focusing on her travel writings of the 1910s. The following extract is from Gaunt’s memoir, Alone in West Africa. The context: Gaunt has sent a load of luggage ahead of the...
by Guest Contributor | Dec 14, 2022 | Essay, Guest Posts
Bronwyn. “the Volta River is entrancingly lovely. It’s quiet reaches are like deep lakes in whose clear surface is mirrored the calm blue sky, the fleecy clouds and hills clothed in the densest green”
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
by Stories from the Archive | Feb 25, 2022 | Nonfiction extract
by Louisa Anne Meredith (1812-1895) Extract from Notes and Sketches of New South Wales (1844), an autobiographical account of Meredith’s embarkation from England on her journey to the other side of the world. CHAPTER I. Embarkation—Indisposition—Pleasures of a...
by Stories from the Archive | Feb 11, 2022 | Nonfiction extract
by Elizabeth Fenton If the earliest women writers who lived in and wrote about Australia were correspondents, diarists and journal writers, among the earliest must be Mrs Elizabeth Fenton (1804-1875). Her journal, titled The Journal of Mrs. Fenton: a narrative of her...