Women writers
Articles
- ‘Beyond the Regions of Ordinary ‘Lady’ Verse’: Two Uncollected Poems by Louisa Anne Meredith
Includes the texts of two poems by Meredith, signed ‘Louisa Anne Twamley’: ‘Impromptu Sonnets’ and ‘Epitaph on a Child’, both published in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine…
1 October 1997 - Towards an Aesthetics of Australian Women’s Fiction: My Brilliant Career and The Getting of Wisdom
Discusses the necessity for a theory of Australian woman's culture through which to read Australian novels authored by women. Drawing on insights from Virginia Woolf…
1 October 1983 - Review of The Space Between: Australian Women Writing Fictocriticism, edited by Heather Kerr and Amanda Nettelbeck, and Jamming the Machinery: Contemporary Australian Women's Writing, by Alison Bartlett.
One of the first collections of its kind, The Space Between anthologises twenty-two Australian women writing fictocriticism that deals with a range of contemporary cultural…
1 October 1999 - Barbara Baynton: Woman as ‘The Chosen Vessel’
Examines Baynton’s story ‘The Chosen Vessel’ and its critical reception by Phillips and others with regard to the relationship between narrative and gender. ‘Focusing on…
1 May 1983 - Long Memoried Women: Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Jamaican Poet, Louise Bennett
Discusses parallels between Oodgeroo and the Jamaican poet Louise Bennett, writers who shared 'the insight to recognise the value of her own indigenous culture, unpopular…
1 November 1994 - Helen Garner’s Education
On the 14th of December 1972, a schoolteacher named Helen Garner found herself fired. This essay argues that the terms of Garner’s firing inform the…
28 October 2021