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Bonnets, speech bubbles and ‘cheeky easter eggs’: a graphic biography of Jane Austen is subtly sophisticated

We’ve had Jane Austen biopics, biographies, screen adaptations galore. Now, her life story is told graphically, with both invented dialogue and...

18.07.2025 10

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Friday essay: Miles Franklin’s other brilliant career – her year as an undercover servant

In 1903, Miles Franklin went undercover to investigate the ‘servant question’. The exploitation she saw continues today.

14.03.2025 20

Kerrie Davies

Artists, social climbers and mermaids: 10 Australian women who followed their dreams to the US in the early 20th century

Why would early 20th-century Australian women travel across the Pacific to the United States? And if they left, why wouldn’t they go to England, the...

29.09.2024 2

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Bonnets, speech bubbles and ‘cheeky easter eggs’: a graphic biography of Jane Austen is subtly sophisticated

Kerrie Davies

Friday essay: Miles Franklin’s other brilliant career – her year as an undercover servant

Kerrie Davies

Artists, social climbers and mermaids: 10 Australian women who followed their dreams to the US in the early 20th century

Kerrie Davies