Angry and dismayed
Having spent quite some time deep in the archives I’ve emerged from the stacks – how shall I put this – angry. It’s now clear to me that erasure and vilification shaped Louisa Lawson’s life and her subsequent legacy.
Louisa Lawson
Louisa Lawson (1848-1920) was a farmer, poet, writer, and a successful newspaper owner. She established Dawn, Australia’s first journal for women readers and lobbied publicly and successfully for women’s rights – including the right to vote. Yet today she is best known, if at all, for being Henry Lawson’s mother. Outspoken, uncompromising, opinionated – Louisa Lawson…
Online Writing Workshop
Still a couple of places left in this one-day workshop (Sat 9 Oct, 2021). I’d be super grateful if you could spread the word! Book here. Last time I ran it we had a terrific time – great discussions, and lots of laughter. Interstate peeps and non-members of Writers Vic are very welcome too. Suits…
Good biography, bad biography – two brief book reviews
This year’s winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography was Caroline Fraser, for Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder. If, like me, you read the Little House on the Prairie books as a child, then you already know all about Laura Ingalls Wilder. She grew up in the 1800s on the American frontier, with…