Your KS #57: Katharine’s secret pseudonym, ‘Val West’
I’ve found a lost Katharine Susannah Prichard book—sort of—and a pseudonym so secret she never knew about it. Some time after Katharine...
Aug 1, 2020
Your KS #56: Katharine Susannah and Black Lives Matter
The Black Lives Matter movement has spread from America around the world in the last weeks. Katharine Susannah Prichard’s encounters with...
Jul 1, 2020
Your KS #55: Katharine Susannah from Cradle to Grave
As reported last month, Melbourne University Press will be publishing my biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard in 2021. It’s going to...
Jun 9, 2020
Your KS #54: Mrs Grundy’s Mission
Often Katharine Susannah Prichard wrote with great seriousness, striving to create art or to change the world. But other times she wrote...
May 1, 2020
Your KS #53: Katharine Susannah on living through hard times
Picture: trove.nla.gov.au, Sunday Times, 27 July 1919, 1 There’s only a handful of Australians alive today who have any memory of the...
Apr 1, 2020
Your KS #52: Hugo Throssell Memorial
Picture: the memorial in 2017, author “Wikirowdy”, from Wikimedia Commons. On the corner of Great Eastern Highway and Old York Road, just...
Feb 29, 2020
Your KS #51: Katharine Stays with Miles Franklin
- Pictures: page from “Item 40: Miles Franklin pocket diary, 1947”, and #174 from “Photographs of Miles Franklin, c. 1879-1954”, both...
Feb 1, 2020
Locating Australian Literary Memory
In December I launched my book Locating Australian Literary Memory which explores the work of eleven authors and the sites,...
Dec 17, 2019
Your KS #49: Signature in a book
Last night when I should have been doing something else, I took one of my most prized KSP books off the shelf. It’s a first edition of...
Oct 30, 2019
Congratulation to Kaleidoscope Winners
On Sunday 6 October 2019, special guest Karen Throssell (grand-daughter of Katharine and Hugo), Wild Weeds Press and the KSP Writers'...
Oct 15, 2019