Jeannie Gunn

Jeannie Taylor was born on 5 June 1870 in Carlton, Melbourne. Educated by her mother, she entered the University of Melbourne, then ran a school with her sisters in the family home in Hawthorn. On 31 December 1901, she married Aeneas Gunn, who managed Elsey station, in the North, where she followed him; he died there of malaria and she returned to Melbourne. She wrote two books drawn from those months, signed Mrs Aeneas Gunn. During the First World War and afterwards, she helped soldiers and their families. Made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1939, she died on 9 June 1961 in Hawthorn.

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• NarrativeWe of the Never NeverJeannie Gunn · 1908Literature