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Mary Gilmore

Died in 1962

Mary Gilmore was born on 16 August 1865 near Goulburn, in New South Wales. A teacher from 1886 to 1895, notably at Silverton and Neutral Bay, she sailed in 1895 for Paraguay and joined the socialist colony of Cosme, where she married William Gilmore; the family returned in 1902. From 1908 to 1931, she edited the women's page of the Australian Worker and championed women's suffrage, pensions and above all the Aboriginal people. Made a Dame of the British Empire in 1937, the first for services to literature, she died on 3 December 1962.

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