National Library of Australia

EP gave birth to five children in all, four of them within five years. The two eldest, Christabel Harriette (born in September 1880) and Estelle Sylvia (born in May 1882), became, like their mother, high-profile...

Many of her letters are in the Bodleian Library , others at Washington State University and Wheaton College at Wheaton, Illinois; those to Nettie Palmer are in the National Library of Australia and those...

CS was a great letter-writer, though she destroyed, selectively, many of the letters she received. Her letters are widely scattered, but many are held by the National Library of Australia at Canberra. She...

She had been working on this novel, originally titled Mrs Trollope and Madame Blaise, in the early 1950s. Her New York agent, Helen Strauss , was pessimistic from the first about placing it, and...