Nov 28, 2018
Your KS #39: Sweet Lavender
As I edit my biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard, I’ve been cutting more words. One of the sections which just didn’t fit concerned...
Oct 31, 2018
Your KS #38: Katharine and Hugo’s engagement, 100 years ago this month
The Herald, 10 December 1918, 3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242671406 This month, November 2018, the world will be marking the...
Sep 27, 2018
Your KS #37: The Birth of Ric Throssell
Katharine Susannah Prichard with baby Ric. (Photo: Papers of KSP, National Library of Australia) My daughter, Sarah, was born at the end...
Aug 30, 2018
Your KS #36: Katharine’s ‘dear, good comrades’, Joan and Vic Williams
Joan Williams was a communist, a journalist, and a writer whose activism spanned from the 1930s to the 1990s. Her memoir Anger and Love...
Aug 1, 2018
Your KS #35: Intimate Strangers, A Beach Novel
Picture: Katharine Susannah Prichard and Ric Throssell, ca. 1926. National Library of Australia, MS6201/1/14. In the middle of winter,...
Jul 1, 2018
Your KS #34: More of Katharine’s Stories Online
For the last year, the National Library has been digitising The Bulletin and making it freely available on the Trove site. The Bulletin...
May 1, 2018
KSP Heritage Trail #4: Katharine's Garden
Katharine and her geraniums in 1967. (Photo: KSPWC archives). Katharine Susannah Prichard’s garden was an important part of her life at...
Apr 1, 2018
KSP Heritage Trail #3: Katharine's Place
Katharine’s Place, year unknown. (Photo: KSPWC archives). When Katharine Susannah Prichard and her new husband, Hugo Throssell, arrived...
Mar 1, 2018
KSP Heritage Trail #2: Verandah
Right: Katharine Susannah Prichard (right) with the writer Eleanor Dark on the verandah in 1948. (Photo: NLA). The verandah at the front...
Feb 1, 2018
KSP Heritage Trail #1: Katharine's Workroom
If funding can be found, KSP Writers’ Centre will be creating a heritage trail in the grounds of Katharine’s Place with signs marking...