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Your KS #39: Sweet Lavender

As I edit my biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard, I’ve been cutting more words. One of the sections which just didn’t fit concerned...

Your KS #38: Katharine and Hugo’s engagement, 100 years ago this month

The Herald, 10 December 1918, 3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242671406 This month, November 2018, the world will be marking the...

Your KS #37: The Birth of Ric Throssell

Katharine Susannah Prichard with baby Ric. (Photo: Papers of KSP, National Library of Australia) My daughter, Sarah, was born at the end...

Your KS #36: Katharine’s ‘dear, good comrades’, Joan and Vic Williams

Joan Williams was a communist, a journalist, and a writer whose activism spanned from the 1930s to the 1990s. Her memoir Anger and Love...

Your KS #35: Intimate Strangers, A Beach Novel

Picture: Katharine Susannah Prichard and Ric Throssell, ca. 1926. National Library of Australia, MS6201/1/14. In the middle of winter,...

Your KS #34: More of Katharine’s Stories Online

For the last year, the National Library has been digitising The Bulletin and making it freely available on the Trove site. The Bulletin...

KSP Heritage Trail #4: Katharine's Garden

Katharine and her geraniums in 1967. (Photo: KSPWC archives). Katharine Susannah Prichard’s garden was an important part of her life at...

KSP Heritage Trail #3: Katharine's Place

Katharine’s Place, year unknown. (Photo: KSPWC archives). When Katharine Susannah Prichard and her new husband, Hugo Throssell, arrived...

KSP Heritage Trail #2: Verandah

Right: Katharine Susannah Prichard (right) with the writer Eleanor Dark on the verandah in 1948. (Photo: NLA). The verandah at the front...

KSP Heritage Trail #1: Katharine's Workroom

If funding can be found, KSP Writers’ Centre will be creating a heritage trail in the grounds of Katharine’s Place with signs marking...