Dorothea Mackellar

Writer, Author

1885 – 1968

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Who was Dorothea Mackellar?

Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar, OBE was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem My Country is perhaps the best known Australian poem, especially its second stanza, which begins: "I love a sunburnt country/A land of sweeping plains,/Of ragged mountain ranges,/Of droughts and flooding rains." ...

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Born
Jul 1, 1885
Sydney
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Nationality
  • Australia
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Lived in
  • New South Wales
Died
Jan 14, 1968

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on July 23, 2013

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