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World War I in Australian Literary Culture
From the first shot to the centenary
(Status : Public)
Coordinated by WW1 Project
  • Gertrude Hart

    A contemporary of Sumner Locke's, Gertrude Hart was also a prolific writer whose primary output was short stories. Her Edwardian romances appeared in the same annuals and magazines as did Sumner Locke's–and, like Locke, she turned to writing stories of the war once the conflict broke out in late 1914.

    Slightly older than Locke, Hart had already published one war story before 1914–a story of the Boer War, with a very different slant than her World War I romances. Unlike Locke, she also lived to see the end of the war, and yet she continued writing stories about World War I until at least the late 1920s–her very last war stories were elegies, stories of forgetting and the long-term devastation of lives.

    Explore Gertrude Hart's war romances through the tiles below.

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  • Image via the Australasian, 10 June 1939, p.43.

  • Explore Gertrude Hart's Short Stories

    Each of the tiles below links to an individual war story, beginning with Hart's romance of the Boer War, and running to as late as 1929.

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      The One Who Stayed (1900)

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      What the Fire Keeps (1915)

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      The Woman Tells (1915)

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      The Minx (1916)

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      The House on Stilts (1916)

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      Her Billy Soldier (1917)

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      An Unregenerate (1918)

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      They Wrote Letters (1918)

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      Romance of a Transformation (1921)

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      The Red Wind (1928)

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      The Haunted Garden (1929)

  • War Artists and War Romances

  • Daryl Lindsay's illustration for Hart's post-war story, 'The Red Wind': Lindsay (brother of Percy, Lionel, and Norman) had enlisted in the war, served two years in France, and worked as an official war artist.

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