

- 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...


- May 10, 2016
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...


- Apr 4, 2016
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...


- Mar 1, 2016
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,...


- Feb 1, 2016
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...