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Inaugurated in 2020 by the Historical Novel Society Australia, the Elizabeth Jane Corbett Mentorship is offered in memory of Elizabeth Jane Corbett, who died in January 2020.
The mentorship gives a previously unpublished author from Australia or New Zealand the opportunity to work with mentor Wendy J. Dunn to complete the first draft of an historical novel for young adults.
Source: Historical Novel Society Australia.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2020
winner y
Her Majesty’s League of Remarkable Young Ladies
Winifred Weatherby Saves the Century;
The Remarkables
Frome
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Chicken House
,
2023
27053700
2023
single work
children's fiction
children's
'Winifred Weatherby is no ordinary nineteenth-century girl. She’s unconventional, plucky, and smart. In fact, she’s a girl-genius inventor on a mission to become an engineer, despite the fact that engineering is a Men-Only Zone in 1889.
'After being expelled from her progressive academy for promising young ladies, the incorrigible Winifred Weatherby is secretly recruited to be a gadget mistress for Queen Victoria’s league of young lady spies. While aiming to exhibit her Very Promising Invention at the 1889 Paris World Fair, Winnie must protect Queen Victoria from would-be plotters, find her missing father, and prove to the world that girls CAN be inventors and engineers.' (Source: Author's website)
Alison Stegert as 'The Remarkables'.
