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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

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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

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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)

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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…

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land

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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…

Human Toll

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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…

Bush Studies

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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…

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In The Fortunate Youth

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Williams John Locke and William John Locke

Paul is a poor boy who grew up in London, in the household of his mother and stepfather. His journey to greatness is the subject of our stor…