Search Results

Bush Studies

Read by Kirsty Leishman


Barbara Baynton


Bush Studies is a short story collection published in London in 1902. Baynton presents a grimly realist view of bush life in Australia for w…

Human Toll

Read by Kirsty Leishman


Barbara Baynton


Ursula (Ursie) Ewart, orphaned as a young child, is sent away from her home in the Australian bush. While Ursie was previously doted on by s…

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land

Read by Kirsty Leishman


Rosa Campbell Praed


Following a failed love affair in England, Lady Bridget O'Hara accepts an invitation to travel to colonial Australia as companion to Lady Ro…

Stories from The Detective's Album

Read by Kirsty Leishman


Mary Fortune


Mary Fortune is best known for The Detective's Album, the longest-running early detective serial anywhere in the world. Written under the na…

The Pioneers

Read by Kirsty Leishman


Katharine S. Prichard


The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Dona…

Two Sides To Every Question: From A South Australian Standpoint

Read by Kirsty Leishman


Maud Jean Franc


'Two Sides to Every Question’: From a South Australian Standpoint is a meditation on poverty, wealth, and social aspiration set in the free …

The Getting of Wisdom (Version 2)

Read by Kirsty Leishman


Henry Handel Richardson


Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off fami…

Things go more wrong

In Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

Read by Kirsty Leishman


Miles Franklin


It is 1904 and women's suffrage has hit the small town of Noonoon. Though the election campaigners preen themselves for the women's vote, th…