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“I LOVE A
SUNBURNT COUNTRY”
Dorothea Mackellar
about
DOROTHEA MACKELLAR
Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar OBE was a third-generation Australian. Her Grandparents arrived in Sydney, from Scotland, on the 21st May 1839. She was born on July 1st. 1885, at her parent’s home, Dunara, on Point Piper in Sydney. Her father Charles Kinnaird Mackellar was an MD registered with the NSW government medical board, politician and businessman. Baptized Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar on August 8th. 1885, at All Saints, Woollahra.
Education
Education consisted of private tuition at home
Family Life
Family, country properties in the Hunter Valley
Interests
Dorothea loved acting. With her friend Ruth Bedford, together
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Poetry
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A small selection of poems, that gives a hint of the wide variety of subject matter covered in the poetry of Dorothea Mackellar. Although well remembered for her exceptional insight into the “Beauty and Terror” of the Australian landscape, Dorothea also understood the landscape of the mind. Th
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Dorothea Mackellar
Isobel Marion Dorothea MackellarOBE (ur. 1 lipca1885 w Sydney, zm. 14 stycznia1968) – australijskapoetka i pisarka.
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[edytuj | edytuj kod]Jej rodzicami byli Charles Kinnaird Mackellar, lekarz, i jego żona Marion, córka Thomasa Bucklanda[1]. Odebrała wykształcenie domowe[2]. Uczęszczała na wykłady na Uniwersytecie w Sydney, ale nie zdobyła dyplomu. Jej najbardziej znanym wierszem jest My Country[3]. Napisała go w wieku 19 lat[4] w Anglii pod wpływem tęsknoty za domem[5]. Utwór po raz pierwszy został wydrukowany w Londynie w Spectatorze (pod tytułem Core of My Heart[7][8]). Druga zwrotka tego wiersza jest jednym z najpowszechniej rozpoznawanych cytatów w Australii[9]. W 2017 na cmentarzu w Waverley dla upamiętnienia autorki odsłonięto uroczyście marmurową płytę z tą właśnie strofą[10]. Przyjaźniła się z poetką i dramatopisarką Ruth Marjory Bedford[11]. Była dwukrotnie zaręczona, ale nie wyszła za mąż. Poświęciła się opiece nad rodzicami. Pod koniec życia z uwagi na zły stan zdrowia przebywała w domu opieki. W 1
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Woman MacKellar, Isobel Marion Dorothea (Dorothea) (1885 - 1968)
Dorothea Mackellar was born in Sydney in 1885 to Sir Charles Mackellar, a surgeon and politician, and his wife Marion (nee Buckland). As the only daughter of a wealthy, elite Sydney family, she was educated at home and encouraged in intellectual and artistic, as well as sporting, pursuits. She travelled widely with her parents, through Europe and especially Great Britain, and spent time at her family's country properties around Gunnedah in north-west New South Wales.
By the time she was twenty, Mackellar was fluent in a number of European languages and had attended a number of lectures at the University of Sydney, although she did not enrol for a degree. She had begun writing in her teen years, and at nineteen wrote the poem for which she would become renowned. Core of My Heart, was first published in the London Spectator in 1908 and was republished a number of times in Australia before its publication under the title My Country in Mackellar's first book The Closed Door and Other Verses. T
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