Category Archives: LOOK: writing by women

Barbara Baynton, Henry Handel Richardson, Mary Gilmore et al as Sleeping Beauties? Reviving Australia’s forgotten women writers at the State Library of NSW

Posted on 03/12/2012 by

This Wednesday night literary critic and writer Geordie Williamson and I will attempt to kiss to life some of the so-called sleeping beauties among Australian women writers. Or, we’ll be talking about the Australian women writers we love and what … Continue reading →

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LOOK 2012: Enheduanna, women writers, the Stella and the Australian Women Writers 2012 Challenge

Posted on 27/01/2012 by

So, as I said in my last post, I discovered on my return to Australia after a month away that the conversation about women’s writing continues. Which I think is a very good thing – and exactly the reason that … Continue reading →

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LOOKing for women’s ‘classics’

Posted on 05/12/2011 by

I was about to write up the next of my classics posts – on Tom Jones by Henry Fielding – when it struck me that it would be the 7th classic by a man I’d posted here. (Although the 8th … Continue reading →

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