Mackellar,+Dorothy

RESEARCH SCAFFOLD  || MACKELLAR, ISOBEL MARION DOROTHEA (1885-1968), writer, was born on 1 July 1885 at Dunara, Point Piper, Sydney, third child and only daughter of native-born parents [|(Sir) Charles Kinnaird Mackellar], physician, and his wife Marion, daughter of [|Thomas Buckland]. She was educated at home and travelled extensively with her parents, becoming fluent in French, Spanish, German and Italian, and also attended some lectures at the University of Sydney. Her youth was protected and highly civilized. She moved easily between the society of Sydney's intellectual and administrative elite, life on her family's country properties, and among their friends in London. ||  || [] || Chronological reference to people and experiences that influenced the person explaining how they influenced them. Dorothea began writing while quite young and surprised her family when magazines not only published but paid for her verses and prose pieces. On 5 September 1908 a poem, 'Core of My Heart', which she had written about 1904, appeared in the London //Spectator//. It reappeared several times in Australia before being included as 'My Country' in her first book, //The Closed Door, and Other Verses// (Melbourne, 1911). She published //The Witch-Maid, and Other Verses// in 1914 and two more volumes of verse (1923 and 1926), also a novel, //Outlaw's Luck// (London, 1913), set in Argentina. With [|Ruth Bedford], a childhood friend, she wrote two other novels (1912, 1914). During World War I and as a result of its frequent inclusion in anthologies, 'My Country' became one of the best-known Australian poems, appealing to the sense of patriotism fostered by the war and post-war nationalism. ||  || [] || [] || Sometime before 1908, while on a visit to England, a homesick young Australian woman put her thoughts down on paper in a poem she called 'Core of My Heart'. This famous poem (later retitled 'My Country') is believed to have been directly inspired by Dorothea Mackellar's experience of life on the land, and her love of the Allyn River district. From 1898 to 1901, the Mackellars owned Torryburn station, near East Gresford, NSW, during one of the region's driest times. While holidaying at the property the family witnessed the breaking of a drought. In later life, Dorothea Mackellar recalled how, after the rain, the grass began to shoot across the parched, cracked soil of the paddocks and, as she watched from the verandah, the land to the horizon turned green before her eyes. Dorothea Mackellar's iconic verse is now regarded by many Australians as the universal statement of our nation's connection to the land.
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