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Grace Emily Munro
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- Senior Citizens Rest Centre
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- 52 Maitland Street
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- Gwydir is on the land of the Kamilaroi people.
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- <p>Grace Emily Munro (1879-1964) was a co-founder and the first president of the Country Women’s Association of Australia (CWA). She experienced first-hand the isolation and lack of services faced by many regional Australian women while living on a property in the Gwydir Shire in New South Wales’ New England region. This inspired Grace to devote her life to improving regional women’s lives - she was a generous and enthusiastic leader of the CWA, campaigning tirelessly for much-needed resources and raising funds for countless women’s restrooms and hospital facilities across the state.</p>
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- Grace Emily Munro (1879-1964 ) was co-founder and first president of the Country Women’s Association.
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Dorothy Drain
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- Glebe
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- <p>Dorothy Simpson McGregor Drain (1909–1996) was a trailblazer in Australian journalism serving as one of the country’s first female war correspondents. Dorothy worked with the <em>Australian Women’s Weekly </em>for 38 years before retiring as editor in 1975, challenging the status quo and paving the way for future female journalists.</p>
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Ethel Turner
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- <p>Ethel Turner is one of Australia’s most celebrated authors. Woodlands is the house where she wrote the children’s book Seven Little Australians, a classic coming-of-age story of wilful, rebellious siblings under the care of a rigid father.</p>
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- Celebrated author Ethel Turner (1870–1958) wrote the classic children’s book, <em>Seven Little Australians</em>.
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Charmian Clift
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- <p>Charmian Clift, Australian writer and essayist, holds a significant place in Australia’s literary landscape. Emerging in an era when the voices of women were often marginalised, Charmian’s work boldly challenged societal norms and explored the complexities of identity, relationships, and the human experience.</p>
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- Charmian Clift (1923-1969) was a writer best remembered for her witty and insightful essays published as a weekly newspaper column between 1964 and 1969.
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Dorothea Mackellar
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- <p>Dorothea Mackellar OBE penned the iconic words ‘I love a sunburnt country’ to describe the Australian landscape that captured her heart in one of Australia’s best-known poems, ‘Core of my heart’ also known as ‘My country’.</p><p>Dorothea was born at ‘Dunara’ in 1885, her family’s residence in Sydney’s Point Piper, where she spent most of her life. Educated at home, becoming fluent in French, Spanish, German and Italian, she also attended lectures at the University of Sydney. Dorothea began writing in her teens. ‘Core of my heart’ was written when she was nineteen.</p>
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Patrick White
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May Gibbs
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- May Gibbs (1877–1969) is one of Australia’s best-known children’s authors and illustrators, rememembered for her gumnut babies and banksia men.
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Margaret Catchpole
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- Richmond is on the land of the Darug and Darkinjung people.
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- <p>Margaret Catchpole was a servant, thief and engaging correspondent.</p><p>Born in Suffolk, England, Margaret worked as a servant before being convicted of stealing a horse and later of escaping from the Suffolk County Gaol. Transported to New South Wales for life in 1801, she worked as a cook, nurse and midwife.</p><p>Margaret’s vivid letters to friends and family in England were the basis for a partly fictional account of her life published posthumously in Richard Cobbold’s <em>The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl.</em></p><p>Margaret’s writing is an important literary record of Australia’s early convict period. It is also the only written record of the devastating 1806 and 1809 Hawkesbury floods.</p>
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