Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (14), Louise Mack, the “colonial”

September 15, 2025August 26, 2025 / Whispering Gums / 15 Comments

(Courtesy OCAL, via clker.com) Early in 2023, I created a Monday Musings subseries called Trove Treasures, in which I share stories or comments, serious or funny, that I come across during my Trove travels. Having posted on her two sisters the last two Mondays, I thought it might be fun to round off the series with … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Trove treasures (14), Louise Mack, the “colonial”

Louise Mack, Girls together (#BookReview)

January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 / Whispering Gums / 21 Comments

Well, that was, surprisingly, genuinely enjoyable. Louise Mack's Girls together is a sequel to her novel Teens (see Bill's review), and features protagonist Lennie (Elinor) Leighton. It shouldn't have been a surprise, given I know something about Mack, through my Monday Musings on her and my review of her debut novel The world is round, but it was, … Continue reading Louise Mack, Girls together (#BookReview)

Delicious descriptions: Louise Mack’s dialogue and satire

January 11, 2017January 16, 2019 / Whispering Gums / 6 Comments

Over Christmas, during one of my conversations with Son Gums, he commented how he tires of meaningless conversations, conversations, for example, in which people discuss a television series they've seen but say nothing of note. He mimicked the sort of conversation he meant ... well, imagine my surprise when, in one of those surprising synchronicities, … Continue reading Delicious descriptions: Louise Mack’s dialogue and satire

Louise Mack, The world is round (Review)

January 5, 2017January 3, 2023 / Whispering Gums / 25 Comments

I've had Louise Mack's debut novel, The world is round, on my TBR for about 20 years. Published in 1896, when she was 26 years old, it's a fairly straightforward tragicomedy about a young well-to-do 21-year-old girl, Jean, who aspires to be a writer, and the two men who love her, the 30-plus-year-old self-confident, successful lawyer-and-writer Musgrave, and … Continue reading Louise Mack, The world is round (Review)

Monday musings on Australian literature: Louise Mack

January 2, 2017January 3, 2017 / Whispering Gums / 15 Comments

I promised in my Reading Highlights post that my first review of the year would be for a book from my TBR pile, and so it will be - hopefully in a couple of days. However, I suspect that the book, and maybe even the author, will be unknown to most of my readers here so I've decided … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Louise Mack

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