My Hero: Charles Harpur Frank the Poet, Matthew Flinders, Barron Field, Charles Sturt, Eliza Dunlop, Charles Harpur, Henry Kendall, Louisa Anne Meredith, Catherine Helen Spence…. what a great line-up for early colonial Australian writers! These writers revealed many of the core features of the early colonial era: the strange way in which the flora and…
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Oz Lit Week 3: Writing by and about Indigenous authors.
What a treat this week to hear so much about the indigenous experience. Starting with Bennelong, Watkin Tench and Eleanor Dark’s fictionalisation of these characters we learnt of the tenuous attempts of two radically different societies to get to know one another. Tench emphasises the “gentleness and humanity” of the natives, and this is something…
Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Spring 2025 
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