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List Of Australian Women Writers
This is a list of women writers born in Australia or closely associated with it in their writings. As with other Wikipedia page lists, writers need a page before inclusion. A *Mena Kasmiri Abdullah (born 1930), short story writer *Joyce Ackroyd (1918–1991), academic, translator and author *Glenda Adams (1939–2007), novelist and short story writer * Patsy Adam-Smith (1924–2001), historian *Jane Alison (born 1961), novelist and memoir writer *Ethel Anderson (1883–1958), poet, essayist, novelist and painter * Jessica Anderson (1916–2010), fiction writer * Diane Armstrong (born 1939), novelist, biographer and freelance journalist and travel writer * Millicent Armstrong (1888–1973), playwright and farmer *Keri Arthur, writer of fantasy, horror and romance novels *Helen Asher (1927 – c. 2004), novelist *Melissa Ashley (born 1973), novelist *Asphyxia (living), puppeteer and children's author *Thea Astley (1925–2004), novelist *Tilly Aston (1873–1947), blind poet and pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mena Kasmiri Abdullah
Mena Kasmiri Abdullah (born 1930) is an Australian writer and poet who has been widely published in ''The Bulletin'', ''Quadrant'', ''Coast to Coast'' and in numerous Australian anthologies. She is best known for her stories about Indian immigrant families and the difficulties of adjusting to a new culture. Life Mena Abdullah was born in Bundarra, New South Wales, in 1930, the daughter of immigrant Indian parents. She grew up on her family's sheep farm in northern New South Wales. She attended Sydney Girls High School. Later she became an accountant and worked for the CSIRO for 40 years. Her portrait by Fred Martin was a finalist in the Archibald Prize in 1953. Writing career Abdullah started writing poetry, influenced by her love for Australian bush ballads. She had many of these poems published in ''The Bulletin'' in the 1950s. She wanted Australians to better understand the immigrant Indian experience. She was one of the first writers to describe the Australian experienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunty Avieson
Carolyn "Bunty" Avieson is an Australian journalist, feature writer, novelist and academic. Career Avieson has a PhD and a Master of Philosophy from Macquarie University, as well as an Associate Diploma of Journalism from RMIT University. In 2008–2009 she worked as a media consultant to newspaper ''Bhutan Observer,'' partly funded by the United Nations Development Program and was a consultant to Journalists Without Borders, Asia Pacific Desk. Avieson has published three novels, a novella and travel memoir; and been translated into Japanese, German and Thai. She is the recipient of two Ned Kelly Awards. In the 1990s she was editorial director of mass market women's magazines ''Woman's Day'' and '' New Idea''. She is a senior lecturer in journalism and media at the University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Baynton
Barbara Janet Baynton (née Lawrence; 4 June 1857 – 28 May 1929) was an Australian writer known primarily for her short stories about life in the bush. She published the collection '' Bush Studies'' (1902) and the novel ''Human Toll'' (1907), as well as writing for '' The Bulletin'' and ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. She was a shrewd manager of her second husband's estate, owning properties in Melbourne and London. She acquired the title Lady Headley from her third marriage to Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley, but never wrote under that name. Early years Baynton was born in 1857 at Scone, New South Wales, the daughter of Irish bounty immigrants, John Lawrence and Elizabeth Ewart. However, she claimed to have been born in 1862 to Penelope Ewart and Captain Robert Kilpatrick, of the Bengal Light Cavalry.Carter (2003) p. 13 Career The fictional narrative of her birth gave her "entrée to polite circles as a governess" and, in 1880, she married Alexander Frater, the son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Bateson
Catherine Bateson (born 1960 in Sydney) is an Australian writer. Career Born in Sydney in 1960, Bateson grew up in a second-hand bookshop in Brisbane. She attained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland, with a major in art history. Her first published novel was ''Painted Love Letters'', a portrait of a family coping with death. She has published two volumes of poetry, and three verse novels for young adults using a variety of poetic forms including haiku, free verse, free renga and acrostic. Bateson has taught creative writing for the past thirteen years, and has been a guest writer at many schools. Her work has been read on radio and featured on television. She has also appeared at various poetry and writers festivals throughout Australia. She coordinated La Mama Poetica at La Mama Theatre in Melbourne. Bateson is the mother of two children, Alasdair, born in 1991 and Helen, born 1992. She currently teaches creative writing at GippsTafe, Victoria and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daisy Bates (author)
Daisy May Bates, CBE (born Margaret Dwyer; 16 October 1859 – 18 April 1951) was an Irish-Australian journalist, welfare worker and self-taught anthropologist who conducted fieldwork amongst several Indigenous nations in western and southern Australia. Bates was a lifelong student of Australian Aboriginal culture and society and was the first anthropologist to carry out a detailed study of Australian Aboriginal culture. Some Aboriginal people referred to Bates by the courtesy name ''Kabbarli'' "grandmother."Glass, A. and D. Hackett, (2003) ''Ngaanyatjarra and Ngaatjatjarra to English Dictionary'', Alice Springs, IAD Press. , p39 Early life Daisy Bates was born Margaret Dwyer in County Tipperary in 1859, when it was under British rule. Her mother, Bridget (née Hunt), died of tuberculosis in 1862 when the girl was three. Her widowed father, James Edward O'Dwyer, married Mary Dillon in 1864 and died ''en route'' to the United States, planning to send for his daughter afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marnie Bassett
Flora Marjorie (''Marnie'') Bassett (30 June 1889 – 3 February 1980) was an Australian historian, biographer and travel writer. Her writing focussed on women's and family history, with particular attention to people from Australia. Early life Bassett was born in Melbourne to academic parents, Sir David Orme Masson, a professor of chemistry, and Mary Masson, née Struthers. Her brother was Sir James Irvine Orme Masson. She grew up in and around the University of Melbourne. During her childhood, he and her family went on three trips to Europe, which allowed for her love of history, literature and music to grow. Bassett received most of her education at home from governesses, although when she was 17 she attended the Church of England Girls' Grammar School for twelve weeks. She attended shorthand and typing lessons, allowing for her to become her father's secretary. She assisted him in organising the 1914 Melbourne conference of the British Association for the Advancement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Mary Barton
Emily Mary Barton (1817–1909) was an English-born Australian poet. She wrote poetry for most of her life, and was still publishing when she was 90. She was the grandmother of Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson. Early life and education Emily Mary Darvall was born on 3 December 1817 in England. Her parents were Major Edward Darvall and Emily Darvall née Johnson. She was the eldest daughter of the Darvall's seven children, and the fourth child. In 1839, Major Darvall and five of his children set off for the colony of New South Wales, his second son John Bayley Darvall having travelled to New South Wales five months earlier. Barton had a classical education, having spent some of her early life in Belgium and France. Career In 1840, Emily married Robert Johnstone Barton, a son of Lt. General Charles Barton. Her husband was a retired naval officer turned grazier, and they met on the voyage to Australia, aboard the ''Alfred''. They had eight children. He died on 4 October 1863 at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Barton
Charlotte Atkinson (1796–1867) was the author of Australia's earliest known children's book. The book titled ''A Mother's Offering to her Children: By a Lady, Long Resident in New South Wales.'' Sydney: Gazette Office was published in 1841. Anonymously published, the book was originally attributed to Lady J.J. Gordon Bremer, the wife of Sir James John Gordon Bremer. However, extensive research by Marcie Muir supports its attribution to Charlotte Barton. Early life Charlotte Waring was born in 1796 and christened on 13 March 1796 at St Mary's, Marylebone, London. Her parents were Albert Waring and his wife Elizabeth Turner. Arrival, and life, in Australia In 1826 Charlotte Waring came to New South Wales to take up a position as governess to the family of Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur. She became engaged during the voyage to James Atkinson, a highly respected agriculturalist and author of the first substantial book on Australian farming. They married in 1827. The couple settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Eldershaw
Flora Sydney Patricia Eldershaw (16 March 1897 – 20 September 1956) was an Australian novelist, critic and historian. With Marjorie Barnard she formed the writing collaboration known as M. Barnard Eldershaw. She was also a teacher and later a public servant. Eldershaw was active in Australian literary circles, including becoming the first woman President of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and being a long-time member of the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Literary Fund. For both her writing output and her active support for and promotion of writers, Eldershaw made a significant contribution to Australian literary life. Life Eldershaw was born in Sydney but grew up in the Riverina district of country New South Wales. She was the fifth of eight children born to Henry Sirdefield Eldershaw, a station manager, and Margaret (née McCarroll). She attended boarding school at Mount Erin Convent in Wagga Wagga. After school, she studied history and Latin at the University of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjorie Barnard
Marjorie Faith Barnard (16 August 18978 May 1987) was an Australian novelist and short story writer, critic, historian—and librarian. She went to school and university in Sydney, and then trained as a librarian. She was employed as a librarian for two periods in her life (1923–1935 and 1942–1950), but her main passion was writing. Barnard met her collaborator, Flora Eldershaw (1897–1956), at the University of Sydney, and they published their first novel, ''A House is Built'' in 1929. Their collaboration spanned the next two decades, and covered the full range of their writing: fiction, history and literary criticism. They published under the pseudonym M. Barnard Eldershaw. Marjorie Barnard was a significant part of the literary scene in Australia between the wars and, for both her work as M. Barnard Eldershaw and in her own right, is recognised as a major figure in Australian letters.Nelson (2004) Life Barnard was born in Ashfield, Sydney, to Ethel Frances and Oswald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faith Bandler
Faith Bandler (27 September 1918 13 February 2015; née Ida Lessing Faith Mussing) was an Australian civil rights activist of South Sea Islander and Scottish-Indian heritage. A campaigner for the rights of Indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders, she was best known for her leadership in the campaign for the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal Australians. Early life and family Bandler was born in Tumbulgum, New South Wales, and raised on a farm near Murwillumbah. Her father Wacvie Mussingkon, son of Baddick and Lessing Mussingkon, had been blackbirded from Biap, on Ambrym Island, in what is now Vanuatu as a boy, aged about 13 years, in 1883. He was then sent to Mackay, Queensland, before being sent to work on a sugar cane plantation. He later escaped and married Bandler's mother, a Scottish–Indian woman from New South Wales. Mussingkon's abduction was part of blackbirding, the practice which brought cheap labour to help establish the Australian sugar industry. He was l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gina Ballantyne
Gina Ballantyne (18 June 1919 – 25 July 1973) was an Australian poet, who also wrote as Allinga. She was the first woman to edit an edition of the annual ''Jindyworobak Anthology''. Early life and education Born on 18 June 1919 in Adelaide, Gina Ballantyne moved with her family to Sydney in 1922. At 10, she was awarded a midget certificate as a Sunbeamer by ''The Sun''. She was educated at Hillview School, Manly where she was dux and won the scripture prize in 1932. She then completed her secondary education at Balgowlah Grammar School. Career Ballantyne won a prize for her essay on the 1933 Natural History Exhibition and included a four-line poem about the platypus, with an illustration. From 1934 her poems and other writing appeared in the children's pages edited by South West Wind in ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. Her poem, "Vision", won the 1942 C. J. Dennis Memorial Competition from 70 entries. In 1945 Ballantyne edited the annual ''Jindyworobak Anthology'', the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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