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...