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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Your KS #10: Katharine Susannah appears in three new books

Sometimes it feels like Katharine Susannah Prichard has been forgotten. It’s disheartening the number of people who tell me they haven’t...

Your KS #9: Following Katharine to Yarram

Nathan in front of the unassuming Mechanics’ Institute in Yarram, built in 1885, where KSP played the lead role in Sweet Lavender. In...

Your KS #8: Following Katharine to Emerald

Nathan in front of the writers’ mural at Emerald Lake Park with KSP, Vance and Nettie Palmer, and CJ Dennis In January, my intermittent,...

Your KS #7: Katharine the Celebrity, Melbourne 1916

Exactly a hundred years ago, Katharine Susannah Prichard returned to Melbourne after five years abroad. Celebrity mattered even during...