Mary Gilmore
Dame Mary Gilmore DBE ( born August 16, 1865 Goulburn, New South Wales, † December 3, 1962 in Sydney) was an Australian writer.
Life
Mary Gilmore was born as Mary Jean Cameron, the daughter of Donald Cameron and his wife Mary Ann. Frequent Relocate her family, she was educated at various schools. She began work as a teacher. Around 1890, she met Henry Lawson, who became influenced by it in his literary work. In 1896 she emigrated to the colony of Cosme in Paraguay. There she met William Alexander Gilmore (1866-1945), whom she married on 25 May 1897. Their only son William Dysart Cameron Gilmore (1898-1945) was born on 21 August 1898. 1899 gave the Gilmore on the colony plans, and returned after a stay in London, where she lived with Henry Lawson, back to Australia. 1908 Mary Gilmore began connection to the Australian newspaper worker. She was editor of the women's side (Women's Page ); this activity she practiced 23 years, until 11 February 1931 from. Between 1932 and 1954 she published several acclaimed books of poetry and was involved in many social and economic reforms. From 1952 to mid-1962, she wrote the Arrows column for the Communist newspaper Tribune. After her death, she was given a state funeral.
Awards and honors
On 1 February 1937 she was awarded the Dame Commander, the second highest level of the Order of the British Empire.
Since 1985, awarded by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature ( ASA) of the Mary Gilmore Award for first book of poetry by an author.
Gilmore's portrait and excerpts from their texts are mapped to the Australian 10 dollar note since 1993.
Literary work
Your socially engaged poetry was influenced by William Baylebridge and is characterized by warmth and humanity.
Works (selection)
- Marri'd, and other Verses (1910 )
- The passionate heart ( 1918)
- The tilted cart ( 1925)
- The wild swan (1930 )
- The rue tree (1931 )
- Old days, old ways: a book of recollections (1934 )
- More recollections (1935 )
- Battlefields (1939 )
- Fourteen Men ( 1954)