Australian Women Writers Challenge discussion

As we are looking to include Classics into our reading of AWW, this thread is for suggestions and recommendations of both Classics and any other books we've enjoyed by Australian Women Writers.

So please help us "very seldom Classics readers" as well as those of us who are looking to read more by our Australian Women with your suggestions and recommendations...

Happy reading!

Some authors come to mind from my school days such as;
Sally Morgan
Ruth Park
Miles Franklin
Elizabeth Jolley
Jessica Anderson

Thanks Ace! Every author will help :)

I'd say Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay is a classic.

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner

This is a listopia list of Australian Classics - but there are males there as well as females, so just pick and choose :)

Best Australian Classics

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
The Harp in the South Trilogy by Ruth Park
The Watch Tower by Elizabeth Harrower
All The Rivers Run by Nancy Cato
My Brillant Career & My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin

The Silver Brumby series by Elyne Mitchell

Mary Grant Bruce :)

All theses recommendations are very helpful. Looks like I'll give the Classic challenge a go :)

Good on you Sharon :)

Ace wrote: "Some authors come to mind from my school days such as;
Sally Morgan
Ruth Park
Miles Franklin
Elizabeth Jolley
[author:Jessica Anderson|2..."

Is there a place where Classic is defined? Some of the authors I have suggested were just nostalgic to me, due to my own age, but I guess that doesn't necessarily make them Classics.

I did this challenge myself this year. Here is a list of all the Australian Women's authors I tried this year for the first time. It might help you to get started if you take up this challenge. No particular order.
The list covers a wide range of genres from Young adult, children, Romance , travel etc
Nicole Alexander
Holly Thorsby
Elizabeth Kasmer
Angela Slatter
Elizabeth Honey
Fiona Higgins
Fran Bryson
Caroline Beecham ( Now living in Australia)
Toni Jordan
Suzy Zail
Debra Adelaide

Noelene, can you link those please? It'll make it much easier for everyone to check them out :) Thanks!

Check out the links and so on that are in the other threads Ace - post #6 here - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Plus other suggestions in that same thread.

I'll see if I can find some more links which I'll post in the Hints and Tips folder...

Great idea!

How about the following?

Jean Devanny

M Barnard Eldershaw

and

Christina Stead

and

Marjorie Barnard

Thanks Alex :)

And Dorothy Hewett

and

Shirley Hazzard

and

Katharine Susannah Prichard

Brenda wrote: "Check out the links and so on that are in the other threads Ace - post #6 here - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Plus other suggestions in that..."
Brenda, thank you. Could you check this link? Its looping back into this thread.

Hahaha! Dear me I must have had a blonde moment there Ace! It is this thread! sorry..........

All good Brenda LOL. I tried to find a proper definition for what makes a classic 'a classic' but its not really clear. I think I'm going with my own definition of written more than 30 years ago and extremely popular or highly discussed novel which has become a part of the culture or psyche of a nation or region!
I will consider this for 2018 and try to build a list of books written prior to 1988 which fit. In the meantime I am keen to see how everyone fares here.

There's a bit of information but not much I'm sure it will be built on in 2017 anyway :)