Jeannie Gunn

Jeannie Gunn ( born June 5, 1870 in Melbourne, † June 9, 1961 in Hawthorn ) was an Australian writer and teacher.

Life

Jeannie Gunn was born the fifth child of schottischstämmigen Thomas Johnstone Taylor and his wife Anna in Carlton, a suburb of Melbourne. Father and grandfather were pastors in Baptist churches. At the age of 17 she enrolled in the University of Melbourne. In the years 1889-1896 she operated with her sisters in the family home, a school, after its closure it elsewhere continued to work as a teacher. In 1901 she married eight years older explorers, ranchers and journalists Aeneas Gunn. This took over the following year the management of the now-defunct cattle operation Elsey Station 15.084216133.123304 in the tropical north of Australia in the vicinity of the village of Mataranka. When the time was unusual in that his wife accompanied him to this remote spot. On March 1, 1903 Aeneas Gunn died from the effects of malaria. Jeannie Gunn then returned to Melbourne.

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The Little Black Princess: In the following years the two books which made known Jeannie Gunn created a True Tale of life in the Never -Never describes the childhood of Ureinwohnerin Dolly Bonson (* 1894, † March 3, 1988 ); like a novel published We of the Never -Never discusses the travel and stay of Jeannie and Aeneas Gunn on Elsey Station.

Jeannie Gunn died on 9 June 1961 in Hawthorn and was buried in Melbourne. She left behind a fortune of 12,181 pounds.

Works

• The Little Black Princess: a True Tale of life in the Never -Never, 1905
• We of the Never- Never, 1908