Essays & reportage
Lillian and Germaine in New York
Robert Milliken
20 January 2011
Robert Milliken recounts the fraught relationship between two Australian women who made enormous contributions to the international literature of the counterculture
Books & arts
The most independent woman in the world
Jill Kitson
27 October 2010
Best known as Samuel Johnson’s confidante, Hester Thrale was also a prolific and fearless writer
Books & arts
The lost mother
Amanda Lohrey
24 April 2009
Amanda Lohrey reviews Julie Myerson’s controversial part-biography, part-memoir, The Lost Child
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