Author · Australia
Dorothea MacKellar
Died in 1968
Dorothea Mackellar was born on 1 July 1885 at Point Piper, in Sydney, the daughter of the physician Sir Charles Mackellar. Educated at home, she travelled with her parents and learned several European languages. She published four collections between 1911 and 1926 and three novels, two of them with her childhood friend Ruth Bedford, then almost stopped writing after her father's death, in 1926, when the care of her parents fell to her. She spent her last years in a nursing home in Randwick and died on 14 January 1968 in Paddington, Sydney, after a fall.
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- PoetryMy CountryDorothea MacKellar · 1911Literature