Eleanor Dark was one of the most highly regarded and widely read writers in Australia during the 1930s and 1940s, two decades that were crucial in the development of Australian writing and literary culture. She published ten novels, as well as writing...

In 1974 Drusilla Modjeska, then a newcomer to Australia, went to Katoomba to meet the award-winning author Eleanor Dark. Despite Dark's reputation as a recluse, Modjeska found her interested in talking about the politics of the past as well as contemporary issues. Dark...

Eleanor Dark (1901-85) was born a hundred years ago on 24 August, and this special focus commemorates that anniversary. It comprises two pieces of Dark's unpublished writing including a section from one of her last novels; a commentary upon Dark's figuring of the...