19th Century Women Writers

From Exmoor Station in North Queensland in 1862 Rachel Henning composed a letter to her sister--'My dearest Etta'. She wrote of an incident the previous…

Presents a case for this poem being the first publication by ‘Tasma’ (Jessie Couvreur) whose maiden name was Jessie Katherine Huybers. In two other sources…

In an interesting and well-founded Foreword to this volume Professor A. R Chisholm makes two points which would have to be made by any reviewer.…

Hamer provides a survey of early Australian novels by writers including Henry Kingsley, Rosa Praed, Ada Cambridge, and Charles de Boos. The essay tracks the…

Any research worker who requests the back files of one of the nineteenth century magazines or journals, other than perhaps the Bulletin, will soon…

Roe argues that Cambridge contemplated the role of women in colonial society and her ability to participate in intellectual discussion in her early poetry. But…

Wilson discovers and provides a biographical sketch of Anna Maria Murray (1808-1889), the heretofore unknown author of The Guardian: A Tale, the first novel…

Walker examines the religious foundation of Spence’s political and social ideas in the context of the colonial and British background. Spence’s conversion to the Unitarian…

Kirkby discusses Miles Franklin's time in Chicago and the intersection there of her political and literary activities. Kirkby argues that Franklin's work in the American…

Discusses gender relations and fears about ‘the white slave trade’ in Miles Franklin’s unpublished novel.

Discusses Australian literary responses to the Boer War. including Banjo Paterson's dispatches from the Front and J.H. Abbott's first-hand account as a soldier reflect and…

This essay reads the novel of expatriate colonial writer Rosa Praed, Outlaw and Lawmaker (1893), as an intervention in the public debate about the Irish…

Ada Cambridge is now well-known for her 'autobiography' and delightful collection of memoirs, Thirty Years in Australia (London: Methuen, 1903). What is not well-known is…

A biography of Catherine Martin and the ways in which her works reflect the issues of her times.

Barton examines the revisions between Unspoken Thoughts and The Hand in the Dark and concludes that central to an undestanding of Cambridge’s work is “the…

Louisa Lawson's important early article, 'The Australian Bush-Woman', which appeared in both the Boston Woman's Journal (27 July 1889) and in the London Englishwoman's Review…

That the novel readers of colonial Australia took an interest in American fiction was abundantly demonstrated in contemporary sources—from the many direct and indirect references…

Ada Cambridge's husband, the Reverend George Frederick Cross, hardly sounds an exciting figure. On the evidence of his wife's first memoir, Thirty Years in Australia…

Displaced from all that is familiar, the colonial subject experiences disorientation; a confusion which is represented in the dislocating experience of emigration and the ambivalent…

The opportunity to read Ada Cambridge's memoir—Thirty Years in Australia— alongside two biographies—Rattling the Orthodoxies: A Life ofA da Cambridge* and Ada Cambridge:…