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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Dorothea Mackellar was born into wealth and privilege, but was also talented and intelligent and allowed freedoms that other girls of her social standing were not. She was in her early 20’s when her most famous poem, My Country, was published, but there was much more to her than that. Fluent in five languages, she was an inveterate traveller, knew the intellectual elite of Sydney and mixed with literary giants overseas. Drawing on her extensive diaries and other archival material, this is a colourful and engaging narrative account of her life and works. Lindy
Deborah FitzGerald graduated in 2022 with a Doctor of Arts from the University of Sydney after completing her thesis, In Search of Dorothea: A biography of Australian poet Dorothea Mackellar. During the course of the doctorate, she won the 2021 Dame Leonie Kramer Prize in Australian Poetry and the 2019 Thomas Henry Coulson Scholarship. FitzGerald is also a senior journalist, editor and writer who has worked across major media organisations including the ABC, Channel Nine and News Corp. Her first book, Sophie's Boys, was published in 2018.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Dorothea Mackellar was born into wealth and privilege, but was also talented and intelligent and allowed freedoms that other girls of her social standing were not. She was in her early 20’s when her most famous poem, My Country, was published, but there was much more to her than that. Fluent in five languages, she was an inveterate traveller, knew the intellectual elite of Sydney and mixed with literary giants overseas. Drawing on her extensive diaries and other archival material, this is a colourful and engaging narrative account of her life and works. Lindy
'This authorised biography takes us into [Dorothea Mackellar's] complex and sometimes troubled life ... an engaging tale of a national icon’ * <I><B>Sydney Morning Herald</B></I> *
