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Whispers from the past echo through the historic Twamley homestead, near Buckland, TAS, which has housed six generations of the Turvey family. Aug 15, 2022 6:00am Some houses have a magic to them that's hard to define. Twamley, the home of Elizabeth Turvey, is that sort of house. It sits nestled into the valley outside the village of Buckland, the traditional land of the paredareme, on Tasmania's East Coast. Wide verandahs wrap around two sides and provide views to the north and west.
Don’t worry, says the poet Mary Oliver, things take the time they take. Then she says How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine? And that’s it. She leaves it there, it’s four lines, (three really - she gives the word worry a line of its own). The poem hangs in the ether, the place in between the poet and the thought, the place I sit. I have often made hard work of this. Things take the time they take.
When Clare Wright’s new history, You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world, landed in my mailbox, I opened it with some trepidation. It was big, a fact I now realise I should have expected but nevertheless a somewhat disheartening one – arriving as it did at the beginning of our lambing season on the farm.
This is Catherine Helen Spence describing herself at the age of eighty. The year is 1905: four years after Federation, three years after the publication of Miles Franklin’s controversial feminist novel My Brilliant Career?, ten years after the term New Woman was first used in Great Britain, fifty years after the publication of Spence’s first novel Clara Morison (by extension one of the earliest Australian novels) and 66 years after Spence’s arrival in Adelaide as a fourteen-year-old immigrant.
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