Dec 1, 2017
Your KS #28: Christmas 1917
One hundred years ago this month, the Australasian published a heart-warming Christmas story by Katharine Susannah Prichard called “Danny...
Nov 6, 2017
Your KS #27: The Quest for Wandu
Above image: Burgess Save-Way as it was in 1959. Used with permission of Ross Burgess and Remember Midland. Last month I wrote about my...
Oct 4, 2017
Your KS #26: Wandu Weekend Tea Rooms – Greenmount’s Star Attraction
Picture: an advertisement in The West Australian, 18 December 1920, from www.trove.nla.gov.au. I’ve finally begun researching Katharine...
Sep 6, 2017
Your KS #25: The early life of Katharine Susannah Prichard in three minutes
Last month, the English and Cultural Studies discipline at UWA held a three-minute thesis session. Like other participants, I had to sum...
Aug 1, 2017
Your KS #24: Katharine turns gothic in 1907
Picture: Frederick McCubbin’s Lost (1886) “Them still hills are weird on a man. At night, in the moonlight, the dead trees are ghostly....
Jul 1, 2017
Your KS # 23: The Grey Horse
In 1924, Katharine Susannah Prichard’s short story “The Grey Horse” won a competition run by the magazine Art in Australia. It’s a dark...
May 31, 2017
Your KS #22: Hugo Throssell and Horses
Katharine Susannah Prichard and her husband, Hugo Throssell, would have approved of KSP Writers' Centre’s 2017 Story Horse Project....
May 11, 2017
Your KS #21: Katharine Susannah Prichard’s Golden Miles
As I’ve been writing about Katharine Susannah Prichard’s experience of World War One for my biography, I’ve been re-reading one of her...
May 2, 2017
Your KS #20: Lightning Ridge and Black Opal, 1916-1921
Pictured left: Katharine's novel, The Black Opal I’ve been researching Katharine Susannah Prichard’s trip to the opal fields at Lightning...
Apr 11, 2017
Your KS #19: Hugo Throssell
I’m up to 1915 in my biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard, the year she met her future husband, Hugo Throssell, in London. He’d just...