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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 …
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…
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 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…
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…