Lyndall Hadow

Lyndall Hadow (1903–1976) was a Western Australian short story writer and journalist. The Lyndall Hadow Annual Award for Short Stories was created by the Fellowship of Australian Writers Western Australia (FAWWA) in 1977 to honour her.

Life Hadow was born in 1903 on the goldfields of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Her parents were strongly socialist. Her mother Florence Collings organised the first Women's Labor League on the goldfields. Her father Julian Stuart was active in trade unions and the editor of the Westralian Worker. Her younger brother was the novelist Donald Stuart.

She attended the Perth Modern School but left before she completed.

Hadow lived and travelled in outback Australia, including working as a travelling salesman and as the matron of a government native settlement.

Hadow and her husband were living in Darwin at the time of the bombing in 1942. She had refused to leave when the women were evacuated. She documented the event in photos and a documentary, The final evacuation of women from Darwin.

Her stories deal with migrant assimilation, Aboriginal issues and the dependence of women on men. The FAWWA also published a tribute to Hadow, "She too is part of the glory".

Hadow Place, in the Canberra suburb of Gilmore, is named in her honour.

Works

Collected stories

Full Cycle and Other Stories (1969)

Other stories

"A World to Gain" in The Tracks We Travel: Australian Short Stories 1953; (p. 15–20) "Period Piece in a Teacup" in The Bulletin, 20 August 1966 vol. 88 no. 4511; (p. 54–57) "Wait a Bit" in The Australian Journal, 1 April 1945 vol. 80 no. 949; (p. 260, 263–264) "Moody's Pub" in Pertinent, January 1947 vol. 4 no. 10; (p. 38–39) "Period Piece on the Fields" in Texas Quarterly, Summer 1962 vol. 5 no. 2; (p. 28–32)