Dorothea Mackellar | |
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| Born | Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar 1 July 1885 Dunara, Point Piper, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 14 January 1968 (aged 82) Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Resting place | Waverley Cemetery |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Genres | Poetry |
| Notable works | "My Country" |
| Relatives | Sir Charles Mackellar (father) |
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Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar OBE (1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968) was an Australian poet and fiction writer.[1] Her poem "My Country" is widely known in Australia, 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."[2]
- ^ Kingston, Beverley (1986). "Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 10. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
- ^ MacKellar, Isobel Marion Dorothea (Dorothea) (1885–1968), The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia