- Feb 3, 2017
Your K.S. #18: Governess—Katharine Susannah Prichard in Yarram, 1904
Pictured left: Katharine Susannah Prichard ca. 1904, from Child of the Hurricane p. 42. I’ve been working on my biography of Katharine...
- Dec 16, 2016
Your KS #17: Introducing “Pomona,” editor of Woman’s World
In 1909, Katharine Susannah Prichard returned from her first trip to London to take up the position of editor of “Woman’s World,” a...
- Nov 16, 2016
Your KS #16: The novel Katharine Susannah regretted
Most aspiring writers would give anything to be published. But what if, sometimes, there’s a manuscript you just shouldn’t publish? One...
- Oct 3, 2016
Your KS #15: Cyril Cook & the Lost Letters of Katharine Susannah Prichard
There’s a small but significant subgenre of novels called “biographical quests,” most notably A.S. Byatt’s Possession (1990). In these...
- Jul 1, 2016
Your KS #12: Katharine Votes
Soviet Aid meeting, Brisbane, October 1941. KSP is in the first row, third from right, wearing a feather boa. Photograph digitised by...
- Jun 2, 2016
Your KS #11: “A City Girl in Central Australia”
For several months now, it’s been 1905 for me. In May of that year, at the age of twenty-one, Katharine Susannah Prichard set out to work...