Georgiana Molloy: the mind that shines by Bernice Barry – Book Review
Georgiana Molloy is every biographer’s delight: an interesting woman who kept a diary. And yet, as is typical for many women who deserve a more prominent role in Australian history, her story is not well known. In Glasgow in 1829 Georgiana Kennedy (aged twenty-four) married army officer Captain John Molloy (aged forty-nine). Six weeks later…
Core of My Heart, My Country by Maggie Mackellar
Henry Lawson has a lot to answer for. His drover’s wife, and her ilk, reinforced and perpetuated the stereotype of the frontier being no place for a woman. Yet women were of course very much present at the boundaries of settlement. And their experiences moved far beyond the confines of the domestic house and garden. …