by Rachel Franks | Sep 30, 2020 | Blog, Entries
On 23 November 1789, Ann Davis became the first woman hanged in New South Wales. Listen to Rachel and Alex on 2SER here Davis was, as we would say today, ‘known to police’. In England, Davis (also known as Judith Jones) had been indicted in April 1786 for feloniously...
by Rachel Franks | Sep 21, 2020 | Book Reviews
Janet Lee, Fallen Among Reformers: Miles Franklin, Modernity, and the New Woman Sydney University Press, June 2020, 168 pp. (plus works cited and index), ISBN: 9781743326886, p/bk, AUS$45.00 In a new full-length work on Miles Franklin (1879–1954), Janet Lee, Professor...
by Rachel Franks | Sep 16, 2020 | Book Reviews
Max Allen, Intoxicating: Ten Drinks that Shaped Australia Thames & Hudson, July 2020, 242 pp. (plus a further reading list), ISBN: 9781760761004, p/bk, AUS$32.99 Well-regarded wine writer Max Allen takes readers on a grand tour of some of the most important...
by Rachel Franks | Jul 27, 2020 | Book Reviews
Kathryn Harkup, Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts Bloomsbury, July 2020, 340 pp. (plus an appendix, bibliography, acknowledgements and index), ISBN: 9781472958211, p/bk, AUS$29.99 The great Bard is well known for his plays and his poetry....
by Rachel Franks | Jul 8, 2020 | Blog, Entries
John Rae is, perhaps, my favourite dead white male. On the surface, he’s really rather ordinary. An administrator who was meticulous and ambitious, he was a career public servant. He woke up, got dressed, went to work and came home again. He married and had six...
