Mary Eliza Fullerton (14 May 1868 – 23 February 1946) was an Australian writer.
Biography
Fullerton was born on 14 May 1868 in
Glenmaggie, Victoria
Glenmaggie is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the shores of Lake Glenmaggie, in the Shire of Wellington. At the 2016 census, Glenmaggie and the surrounding area had a population of 277.
Glenmaggie Post Office opened on 1 January 1872 ...
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She was educated at home by her mother and at the local state school. After leaving school she stayed on her parents' property, until she moved to
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
in her early twenties.
She was active in the
women's suffrage
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movement from the 1890s and early 1900s. During
World War I
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she wrote articles on
feminist
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...
issues and arguing against
conscription
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for
Victorian publications. She was a member the
Victorian Socialist Party
The Victorian Socialist Party (VSP) was a socialist political party in the Australian state of Victoria during the early 20th century.
Most VSP members were also members of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), or later became members. A faction ...
and the Women's Political Association.
She visited England in 1912 and moved there in 1922 with her companion Mabel Singleton.
Fullerton died in
Maresfield
Maresfield is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. The village itself lies 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north from Uckfield; the nearby villages of Nutley and Fairwarp; and the smaller settlements of Du ...
, England on 23 February 1946.
Literary career
She wrote stories, articles and verse for magazines and periodicals, sometimes under the pseudonym Alpenstock. She wrote three novels between 1921 and 1925 under her own name, but fearing prejudice against her as a woman without a university education, publication of her two last works in verse, ''Moles do so little with their privacy'' and ''The wonder and the apple'', were published under the pseudonym E. Their publication was arranged by her friend
Miles Franklin
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 187919 September 1954), known as Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel ''My Brilliant Career'', published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901. While ...
. Her identity as their author was revealed after her death.
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See also
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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.
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*Mena Kasmiri Abdullah (born 1930), short story writer
*Joyce Ackroyd ...
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List of women writers
* List of women writers (A–L)
* List of women writers (M–Z)
See also
*Feminist literary criticism
*Feminist science fiction
*Feminist theory
* Gender in science fiction
*List of biographical dictionaries of female writers
*List of early-mode ...
References
Further reading
*Martin, S. 2001, ''Passionate Friends: Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton and Miles Franklin'', London,
Onlywomen Press
Onlywomen Press (briefly known as The Women's Press) was a feminist press based in London. It was the only feminist press to be founded by out lesbians, Lilian Mohin, Sheila Shulman, and Deborah Hart. It commenced publishing in 1974 and was on ...
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*Martin, S. 1998, 'Becoming-Violet: Mary Fullerton's Poetry and Lesbian Desire', Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 1997, ASAL 1998, pp. 99–104.
*Martin, S. 1997, 'Desire in the Love Poetry of Mary Fullerton', ''Hecate'', Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 95–103.
*Martin, S. 1996, ''The polygamy of friendship : Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton, and Miles Franklin'', Thesis (PhD), Griffith University.
*Martin, S. 1994, 'Past All I Know is All I Feel: Mary Fullerton's Poetry and Lesbian Desire', in Kay Ferres, ed. ''Coastscripts: Gender Representations in the Arts'', AIWRAP: Griffith University, pp. 15–26.
*Martin, S. 1993, 'Rethinking Passionate Friendships: the Writing of Mary Fullerton', ''
Women's History Review
''Women's History Review'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal of women's history published by Routledge. The editor-in-chief is June Purvis (University of Portsmouth) and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa is deputy editor.
Abstracting and indexin ...
'', Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 395–406.
Precious correspondence from Australian feminist, writer and poet Mary Fullertonby Jessye Wdowin-McGregor
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1868 births
1946 deaths
20th-century Australian novelists
20th-century Australian women writers
Australian feminist writers
Australian women novelists
Australian women poets
Australian suffragists
19th-century Australian women
People from Maresfield