Ernestine Hill, The Great Australian Loneliness (review)
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
Louisa Anne Meredith, Notes and Sketches of New South Wales (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...
Elizabeth Fenton, The Journal of Mrs. Fenton (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...
Patsy Adam-Smith: Set with the Seal of Wanderlust
Continuing our series on classic and forgotten women writers, Dr Robyn Greaves features Patsy Adam-Smith who was born this day in 1924. Thanks, Robyn. Very few people these days have heard of Australian writer Patsy Adam-Smith (31 May, 1924 – 20 September,...
