- Dec 1, 2017
Your KS #28: Christmas 1917
One hundred years ago this month, the Australasian published a heart-warming Christmas story by Katharine Susannah Prichard called “Danny...
- Nov 6, 2017
Your KS #27: The Quest for Wandu
Above image: Burgess Save-Way as it was in 1959. Used with permission of Ross Burgess and Remember Midland. Last month I wrote about my...
- Oct 4, 2017
Your KS #26: Wandu Weekend Tea Rooms – Greenmount’s Star Attraction
Picture: an advertisement in The West Australian, 18 December 1920, from www.trove.nla.gov.au. I’ve finally begun researching Katharine...
- Sep 6, 2017
Your KS #25: The early life of Katharine Susannah Prichard in three minutes
Last month, the English and Cultural Studies discipline at UWA held a three-minute thesis session. Like other participants, I had to sum...
- Aug 1, 2017
Your KS #24: Katharine turns gothic in 1907
Picture: Frederick McCubbin’s Lost (1886) “Them still hills are weird on a man. At night, in the moonlight, the dead trees are ghostly....
- Jul 1, 2017
Your KS # 23: The Grey Horse
In 1924, Katharine Susannah Prichard’s short story “The Grey Horse” won a competition run by the magazine Art in Australia. It’s a dark...