Australian women writers
Articles
- The Fiction of Beverley Farmer
Beverley Farmer is an award-winning writer but critical assessment of her achievement has been minimal. Her short stories have been reviewed in tandem with other…
1 May 1990 - Australian Literature: Points for Departure
Discusses contemporary attempts to change the 'fixed and known directions' of Australian literature by investigating the 'faultlines' (per Susan Sheridan), 'those different intersections of concurrence…
1 October 1999 - Reading Kate Llewellyn’s Garden(Books)
Kate Llewellyn does not like her work referred to as 'garden writing' or herselfas a 'garden writer', yet much of her prose (and poetry) takes…
1 October 2006 - Reading (in/and) Miranda
In this first critical essay on the work of Wendy Scarfe, Bode argues that Scarfe’s novels, in particular Miranda, both represent and seek to…
1 May 2006 - Facts and Fiction: Revaluing Helen Simpson’s Boomerang
Reconsiders Helen Simpson's 1932 novel Boomerang, focusing on its structure, use of historical sources, character and style.
1 October 1982 - Review of Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers 1925-1945 by Drusilla Modjeska
This challenging addition to the field of literary history is the work of a historian more preoccupied with feminist and political issues than with literary…
1 October 1982 - ‘Unexpected Effects’: Marked Men in Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction
The author critiques the ways in which a set of novels by women writers published in the period 1980-2005 represent ‘wounded men’, and analyses the…
1 October 2006 - Reopening the Case of Ada Cambridge
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…
1 October 1987 - Cold War, Home Front : Australian Women Writers and Artists in the 1950s
In paying tribute to Dorothy Green, Sheridan recalls the generation of women writers and artists who emerged in the 1940s and 1950s, their social visions…
1 May 2002 - Review of A Writing Life By Giulia Giuffré
Addicted as I am to radio, and even some television interviews, I find written interviews irritating. For me this newish and it seems increasingly popular…
1 October 1990 - Lesbia Harford’s Homefront Warrior and Women’s World War I Writing
Sometime during the early 1920s, Lesbia Harford wrote The Invaluable Mystery, a novel which concerns Sally, an urban working-class woman, and her struggle to…
1 May 1995 - ‘Preserving the White Race’: Some Australian Women’s Literary Responses to the Great War
Surveys poetry and verse, personal narratives and popular novels written by Australian women about the Great War. Finds as major preoccupations and concerns in this…
1 October 1985 - Review of Nine Lives: Postwar Women Writers Making Their Mark, by Susan Sheridan
Nine Lives: Postwar Women Writers Making Their Mark itself marks and builds on a robust tradition of scholarship on the gendered cultural history of Australia…
1 June 2011 - ‘Hearts of Gold and a Happy Ending’: The Appeal of The Harp in the South
Discusses the popular appeal of Ruth Park's novel The Harp in the South in the context of Park's lukewarm critical reception.
1 May 1990 - Edgy Laughter: Women and Australian Humour
Regardless of whether they accepted or utterly rejected their imposed role as members of God's police and gatekeepers of the social class structure, women have…
1 October 1993 - The Self and the Magic Lantern: Gender and Subjectivity in Australian Colonial Women’s Writing [1992]
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…
1 May 1992 - Voices in Time: A Kindness Cup and Miss Peabody’s Inheritance
Discusses the narrative methods of Thea Astley's A Kindness Cup and Elizabeth Jolley's Miss Peabody's Inheritance, in particular Astley's attention to narrative chronology and…
1 October 1986 - Body in the Vault: The Unpublished Novels of Eve Langley
Within the Mitchell Library inside the State Library of New South Wales lie the manuscripts of ten novels submitted by Eve Langley to Angus &…
1 May 1993 - Review of Beyond the Echo: Multicultural Women's Writings, edited by Sneja Gunew and Jan Mahyuddin; and Conflicts of Love by Con Castan, Reflections: Selected Works from Greek Literature, edited by Thanasis Spilias and Stavros Messinis
The post-war years witnessed the first mass influx of non-English speaking immigrants in Australian history. It has taken several decades for the literature of this…
1 October 1989 - Review of books by Debra Adelaide, Helen Daniel, Chris Tiffin, Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman
Review of the following volumes:
Australian Women Writers: A Bibliographic Guide, by Debra Adelaide. Sydney: Pandora, 1988.
The Good Reading Guide: 100 Critics Review…
1 May 1990
Contributors
- Katherine Bode
- Katherine Bode
- Patricia Barton
- Delys Bird
- Jan Bassett
- Delys Bird
- Anne Collett
- Donna Coates
- Annette R. Corkhill
- Lucy Frost
- Kerryn Goldsworthy
- Lyn Jacobs
- Dorothy Jones
- K. A. McKenzie
- Craig Munro
- F. C. Molloy
- Brigitta Olubas
- Susan Sheridan
- Gillian Whitlock
- Gillian Whitlock