Most people, when they think of nineteenth century or early twentieth century Australian authors and poets, think of Henry Lawson, "Banjo" Paterson, Henry Kendall, C. J. Dennis, Marcus Clarke and Miles Franklin and Christina Stead. In other words, the authors that people think of apart from Miles Franklin and Christina Stead are male authors.
Australia produced many writers in the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century and a large number of these were women. Henry Lawson's own mother Louisa Lawson was a writer and early feminist. Miles Franklin, Barbara Baynton and Louisa Lawson are three women writers who were fascinating people themselves.
My next article will be about these three remarkable women themselves and their work.
Here is a list of many of the early Australia women writers and their works.
JESSICA ANDERSEN An Ordinary Lunacy; The Last Man's Head; The Commandant; Tirra Lirra by the River; The Impersonators; Stories from the Warm Zone & Sydney Stories
CAROLINE LOUISA ATKINSON (1834-1872) Tom Hellicar's Children
ANNIE MARIA BAXTER (1816-1905) Memories of the Past
BARBARA BAYNTON (? -1929) Bush Studies; Human Toll
ANNA MARIA BUNN (1808-1899) The Guardian
ANNETTE BOSWELL (1826-?) An Account of Early Port Macquarie
ADA CAMBRIDGE (1844-1926) The Perversity of Human Nature; A Marked Man: Some Episodes in His Life
JESSIE COUVREUR (TASMA) (1848-1897) Monsieur Calcoche; Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill; A Sydney Sovereign & Other Tales; In Her Earliest Youth; The Penance of Portia James; A Knight of the White Feather; Not Counting the Cost; A Fiery Ordeal
MARY FORTUNE (WAIF WANDER) (1833?-1910?) Bertha's Legacy
MILES FRANKLIN (1879-1954) My Brilliant Career; My Career Goes Bung; All That Swagger; Up the Country and other works
MARY GAUNT (1861-1942) Dave's Sweetheart; The Moving Finger; Kirkham's Find; The Uncounted Cost
RACHEL HENNING (1826-1914) Letters
LOUISA LAWSON (1848-1920) The Dawn (Australia's first feminist journal.
CAROLINE WOOLMER LEAKEY (1827-1881) The Broad Arrow
CATHERINE MARTIN (1847-1937) The Incredible Journey; An Australian Girl
LOUISA ANNE MEREDITH (1812-95) Over the Straits; Notes & Sketches of NSW During a residence in that Colony from 1839-44
GEORGIANA MOLLOY (1805-1843) Letters
ROSA PRAED (1851-1935) An Australian Heroine; Outlaw and Lawmaker; The Luck of the Leura; The Bond of Wedlock; Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
CATH.HELEN SPENCE (1825-1910) A Week in The Future; Clara Morrison: a Tale of South Australia During the Gold Fever
MARY THERESA VIDAL (1815-95) Tales from the Bush
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