Edith McKay
Gladys Edith McKay (20 February 1891 – 30 January 1963) was an Australian writer.Author: Edith McKay
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource. Accessed 20 August 2018. During World War I, McKay volunteered as a nurse and was sent overseas to Gallipoli and Kingdom of Serbia, Serbia with the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service. McKay is best known for her 1947 novel "''The House of Winston Blaker"''. ''"The House of Winston Blaker"'' received mostly positive reviews nationally and was later adapted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a radio serial. McKay was also known for her short stories, written under the name of Edith Dithmack. More than 120 of McKay's short stories were broadcast on ABC Local Radio, ABC Radio in the 1940s. In 1949, McKay won the ABC's short story competition in 194 ...
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''The'' () is a grammatical Article (grammar), article in English language, English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the Most common words in English, most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant s ...
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