Projects

2011

Dorothea Mackellar, ‘My Country’ her links to ‘Kurrumbede’ Gunnedah and it’s influence on her writing.

Dorothea Mackellar, ‘My Country’ her links to ‘Kurrumbede’ Gunnedah and it’s influence on her writing.
An early weatherboard cottage on Kurrumbede, near Gunnedah where poet Dorothea Mackellar wrote many poems in the 1910s.
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Author: Dr Sue Rosen

Client: Coalworks (Vickery South) Pty Ltd

This research project examined Dorothea Mackellars' writings and personal papers to ascetain where and when she wrote "My Country" and also assessed the influence of Kurrumbede on her writing.