

- Nov 28, 2018
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...

- Oct 31, 2018
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...


- Sep 27, 2018
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...

- Aug 30, 2018
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...

- Aug 1, 2018
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,...

- Jul 1, 2018
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...


- May 1, 2018
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...


- Apr 1, 2018
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...


- Mar 1, 2018
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...


- Feb 1, 2018
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...