Coleman, James xi, 4, 84, 91–93, 94, 96–102, 104, 106–109, 120, 121, 125, 127, 146, 155, 157, 210, 211, 303, 304, 318, 335, 336, 341, 343, 349, 371, 372
Comstock, Anna 147
Conrad, Joseph 247
Correvon, Henry 183, 184, 191
Crisp, Louise 256
Croll, Bob 271, 283
Cronon, William 308
Crosbie Morrison, Philip 166, 374
Cross, Agnes 132, 133
Darwin, Charles 5, 181, 182, 185, 187, 197, 258, 316
Davis, Lizzie 272
Dawson, John 74
Day, Syd 92, 99, 101
Deamer, Dulcie 129
Dennis, Clarence M. J. S. (C. J.) 247, 307
Dickens, Charles 20, 53, 66
Dillard, Annie 100, 308
Dodgson, Charles (Lewis Carroll) 20, 31, 32
Donnelly, Hannah 273
Double, Susan 187
Drake-Brockman, Henrietta 285
Duncan, Roy 305
Durack, Elizabeth 289
Eaves, Ethel 161, 176
Evans, Mary Anne (George Eliot) 382
Eliot, Thomas Stearns (T. S.) 382
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 15, 30, 238, 245, 248, 321, 323, 353, 371
Edmunds, George 26
Edmunds, Maria Kaye 26
Edmunds, Richard 26
Endersby, Jim 258
Erickson, Dorothy 226
Erickson, Rica (Rica Sandilands) 10, 31, 53, 129, 166, 212, 213, 216, 217, 224–226, 228, 240, 278, 279, 349, 350, 371
Ewart, Alfred 160, 314, 326
Exeter, Frank 70
Faraday, Michael 253, 313
Fenton, Elizabeth 50, 51
Foster, Alfred 307
Franklin, Stella Miles (Miles) 303–306, 308
Fraser, John 48–49
Furphy, Joseph 31, 303–307
Galbraith, Jean 7, 10, 79, 81, 147, 159, 166, 380, 381
Galsworthy, John 247
Gamble, William M. 68–70, 84
Goadby, Bede Theodore 100, 178, 212, 213, 216
Goadby, Mary Emma 100, 212, 213, 216
Godfery, Hilda 183
Godfery, Masters Johnson 182–187, 191, 194–197, 217
Gordon, Adam Lindsay 247
Green, T. G. 161
Griffiths, Tom 337
Guerin, Bella 155, 158
Gunn, Jeannie 287, 288, Harms, Annie Maria x, 20, 33, 45,
Harms, George Edmunds xi, 19, 20, 22, 32–34, 43–46, 51, 53, 67, 69, 349
Harms, Harriett x, 19–21, 28, 32, 33, 36, 44, 45, 53
Harms, Harry x, 20, 22, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 44, 45, 53, 54, 70, 94, 121, 133, 134, 216, 220
Harms, Henry x, 22, 24–26, 28, 30–32, 33, 36, 44, 48, 49, 67, 75, 94, 121, 133, 134, 158, 216, 220
Harms, Hervey Arthur xi, 19, 20, 32, 33, 44, 45, 216, 220
Harms, Ivo 22, 53, 94, 216
Harms, Lottie (Charlotte Bowman) x, 20, 28, 33, 45, 70, 401n
Harms, Lottie (Charlotte Sarah Edmunds) xi, 20, 24, 26, 28, 33, 45, 94, 133, 134
Harms, Peter x, 22, 242
Hazlitt, William 168, 247
Henry, Alice 307
Hewett, Dorothy 379
Hill, Ernestine 285
Holmes, Oliver Wendell 247, 383
Hood, Thomas 28
Horner, Mary 316
Huxley, Aldous 244, 253
Huxley, Thomas Henry 258
Johnson, Heather Taylor 366–368
Kennedy, Flo 276
Kingsley, Henry 53
Kipling, Rudyard 55, 125, 246, 247
Lamb, Charles 53, 247
Lamott, Anne 249
Langley, Eve 337
Laplace, Pierre-Simon 185
Lawson, Henry 305
Lea, Arthur 185, 190, 192, 193
Lindsay family 269, 283, 307
Long, Charles 64, 71
Lovelace, Ada 314
Lyell, Charles 316
James, Harry 92, 101, 104
Jefferies, Richard 30, 43, 147, 245, 246, 248, 368, 369, 371
Mack, Amy 130, 226, 227
Maeterlinck, Maurice 247
Marcet, Jane 313
Mason, Mary Anne 82
Mauk, Catherine 274, 275
McCubbin, Frederick 117, 118, 120
Macdonald, Donald 100, 135, 136, 166, 311, 312, 336–338
McLennan, Ethel 132, 314, 315
Menzies, Margaret 51
Meyer, Lois 283, 284
Mickle, Alan 95
Millman, Susan 44
Molloy, Georgiana 221
Montfort, Annie 343
Moore, Grace 53
Morris, Myra 248
Nabokov, Vladimir 249–253
Nicholls, William 161, 193
Noonuccal, Oodgeroo 274, 291
O’Connell, Thomas F. 254
O’Dowd, Bernard 247, 337
Oliver, Mary 259–261
Page, Walter Hines 245, 248
Palmer, Nettie 166, 307
Paterson, Andrew Barton (Banjo) 337
Peggie, Loris 31
Peggie, Mabel (Mabel Roberts) 128
Pelloe, Emily 217, 227
Pescott, Edward 136
Pitt, Marie E. J. 159
Playne, Moira 159, 160, 281, 326
Poe, Edgar Allan 253
Poulton, Edward Bagnall 190, 191
Pouyanne, Maurice-Alexandre 182–185, 187, 191, 195, 196
Prichard, Katharine Susannah 214, 308
Quiller-Couch, Arthur 248
Rayment, Tarlton 153, 181, 185, 193, 194
Rees, Bertha 132
Rentoul, Annie R. 130
Richardson, Henry Handel 128, 308, 343, 344
Robertson, Enid 356
Rodwell, Grant 73, 74
Rogers, Richard Saunders 100, 146, 166, 177, 178, 189, 190–193, 196, 197, 316, 317, 326
Rowan, Marian Ellis (Ellis) 130, 248, Rowe, Mr 225, 228, 342
Rupp, Herman Montague Rucker 161, 175–178, 197, 304, 318, 319, 381
Saleeby, Caleb Williams 73
Scammel, George V. 211
Scouler, Ethel 326
Serle, Dora 269
Shakespeare, William 35, 37, 71, 127, 246, 247, 253, 347
Sharp, Nonie 276
Shelley, Mary 306
Shelley, Percy 247, 306
Shirlow, John 269
Smith, Gerard 181
Snodgrass, Jane 47
Snow, Charles P. 255
Spence, Caroline Helen 307
Spence, Elizabeth 82, 83
Sproule, Mary 126
Strayed, Cheryl 308
Steel, A. W. 118, 126
Stevens, Alexander G. 248
Stevenson, Robert Louis 132, 246, 247
Strehlow, Carl 288, 289
Stuart, Frank 97
Sweet, Georgina 130, 132, 314
Tate, Frank 71, 72, 83, 307
Taylor, Irene Frances 166
Tennant, Kylie 353
Tennyson, Alfred Lord 336
Thackeray, William 20, 246
Thaxter, Celia 321, 322
Thomson, Donald xi, 27, 159, 269, 270, 275–281, 282, 326, 327
Thomson, John xi, 3–5, 27, 107, 158, 281, 282, 343, 345
Thomson, Peter xi, 3–5, 27, 97, 107, 158, 172, 246–248, 258, 278, 281, 282, 293, 343, 345, 366, 367
Thoreau, Henry 30, 100, 244, 245, 260, 308, 320, 321, 323, 324
Tickner, Jane 28
Tillyard, Robin J. 181, 183, 193
Trollope, Anthony 53, 247
Tredinnick, Mark 274
Turner, John 314, 315, 374
Wallace, Alfred Russel 258
Webb, Jessie 315
Wells, Herbert George (H. G.) 11, 105, 246, 248, 258
Wheeler, William Morton 194
White, Gilbert 5, 29, 30, 147, 245, 323
Whitfield, Jessie 130
Whitford Hazel, W. 286, 293
Wilde, Oscar 247
Williamson, Herbert B. 197
Willis, James A. 373, 374
Wordsworth, William 247
Wright, Clare 309
Wright, Alexis 274
Wright, Judith 274
Young, Lynette 31, 224, 225
Index of species
(Names are listed in the form used in Edith’s work. Some updated species names are provided.)
Acacia (wattles) 72, 78, 81, 94, 219, 227, 249, 288, 299, 326, 333, 339, 357; A. baileyana (Cootamundra wattle) 333; A. pycnantha (golden wattle) 358; A. terminalis (cedar wattle) 377; desert oak 299; early wattle 117; lightwood 81; mulga 297, 299; prickly Moses 81
Acianthus caudatus (mosquito orchid) 146
Acridopeza reticulata (mountain grasshopper or Sorrento flea) now Acripeza reticulata 4, 345, 346
Ageratum 15
Aeonium cuneatum (sempervivum or houseleeks) 151, 152, 336
angelica 341, 375
arum lily 227
asparagus fern 227
bandicoot 281
banksia 227, 228, 231, 237, 372
Bassia (goathead or amaranth) 299
bear’s-foot (hellebore) 35
bee-wasp (Dasyscolia ciliata) 184
bee fly (Bombyliidae) 152
beetle 59, 119, 175, 201, 330
berberry (Berberis or barberry) 35
billy-button (Craspedia) 265
bitter pea (Daviesia) 120
blackberry 127, 356, 391
blackbird 354, 385
blue-banded bee 317
bluebell 79, 264
blue nemesis 228
blue-tongue lizard (Tiliqua) 4
boar (Sus) 270, 280
bridal creeper 356
broom honey myrtle (Melaleuca uncinata) 220
buck bush (saltbush Salsola australis) 299
budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulates) 4, 266, 387
buttercup 34, 259, 265
butterfly 20, 149, 250; Lycaenid (blues) 249–250
butterfly–ant association 249–250
Caladenia (spider orchids) 146, 169, 177; C. cretacea (white spider)* 82; C. cruciformis (red spider)* 82;
