Toowoomba Ladies Literary Society Display

Saturday night, in the main street kerb, The angle-parked cars are full of watchers, their feet on invisible accelerators, Going nowhere, fast. ‘Provincial City’, Bruce Dawe

The Ladies Literary Society archives and artefacts are preserved in the Toowoomba City Library. A number of the artefacts are displayed on the second floor.

These include a glass case with early editions of the work of Toowoomba's writers, some literary relics including the chair used by George Essex Evans, a number of photographs, and memorial plaques to A.G.Stephens and Margaret Curran.

Framed photographs of long-term members Alice Guerin Crist and Connie Davidson are also on display along with a portrait of Bruce Dawe.

 
Submissions and suggestions for places not yet included can be sent to leec@usq.edu.au