by Elizabeth Lhuede A post in our 2025 series featuring works published in 1935 (or by authors who died in 1935). Last year my colleague, Whispering Gums (WG), unravelled the mystery of “J. M. Stevens”. Stevens turned out to be not one person, but two, sisters Jane Marianne and Joan Marguerite. The less prolific younger […]| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
by Whispering Gums A post in our 2025 series featuring works published in 1935 (or by authors who died in 1935). This post includes a column that was published in the Women’s Supplement of Th…| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
by Elizabeth Lhuede A post in our 2025 series featuring works published in 1935 (or by authors who died in 1935). This post includes a poem by NSW-born Queensland poet, Mary House. Mary House (1875…| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
by Whispering Gums A post in our 2025 series featuring works published in 1935 (or by authors who died in 1935). This post includes a short story that was published in The Cairns Post on 28 …| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
by Elizabeth Lhuede A post in our 2025 series featuring works published in 1935 (or by authors who died in 1935). This post includes a poem and a short story by English-Born Australian, Ivy Moore. …| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
by Whispering Gums A post in our 2025 series featuring works published in 1935 (or by authors who died in 1935). This post includes a short story that was published in the Sydney Mail on 24 …| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
In the 1960s, what is an Independent Woman was changed forever by 'the pill', which allowed women to enter marriage without the fear of endless pregnancies| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
Another in our series of posts on authors with works published in 1924. A prolific verse-maker, Maud Renner Liston was born in Adelaide in 1875, the fourth of seven children of William Liston and M…| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
by Whispering Gums A post in our series featuring works published in 1924 (or by authors who died in 1924). This post is an article that was published in The Daily Mail on 12 July 1924, and is by the New Zealand-born Dulcie Deamer. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dulcie Deamer (1890-1972) – Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie Deamer […]| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
An annotated list of Australian women writers who began writing after WWI, during the Depression, and up to the end of the fifties/early sixties| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
by Catherine Helen Spence The grand democratic basis of the Commonwealth constitution of “one man one vote,” needs to be expanded into “one adult one vote,” and “one vote one value”| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
a member of a church which allows women to speak in the pulpit, a citizen of a State which gives womanhood a vote for the Assembly, a citizen of a Commonwealth which fully enfranchises me for both …| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
“there will be no rest until man is recognised as man, without distinction of colour or clime”| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
Mrs Chisholm became a familiar figure on the wharves in Sydney, meeting every ship, finding positions for immigrant women and sheltering many of them in her home.| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
The obverse of the Lone Hand (and of his mate, the Brave Anzac) is that it was women who were left to manage not just the home, but the industry which maintains the home.| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
By Jennifer Cameron-Smith At night the land took back the silence of its centuries, and lay passive as it had done since the dawn of time under the indifferent stars.| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
from the 1970s women protested their absence from historical accounts, but failed to recognise that first wave feminists had proposed an alternative to the dominant male myth;| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
The relationship between Drysdale and Newcomb is, in a low key way, occasionally celebrated by the queer community. But the diary provides few insights into the women’s emotional lives| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
Suffragism was state (colony) based up until Federation on 1 Jan 1901, and voting rights for the first federal election were based on voting rights in the individual states| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
By Janine Rizetti. [Vida] was mainstream middle-class, stylishly dressed and a very capable public speaker, and she spearheaded the ‘No’ case during the Conscription referendum campaigns.| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
By Sue/Whispering Gums. Australia was a leader in women’s suffrage by being the first nation to legislate suffrage for all white adult Australian women, without property qualifications, and to enab…| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
