Who was the sister of John Brodie Spence and was aScottish-born Australian author?
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John Brodie Spence John Brodie Spence (ca. 1824 – 7 December 1902), born in Melrose, Scotland, was a prominent banker and politician in the early days of South Australia. He was a brother of the reformer Catherine Helen Spence.
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Catherine Helen Spence Catherine Helen Spence (31 October 1825 – 3 April 1910) was a Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician, leading suffragist, and Georgist. In 1897 she became Australia's first female political candidate after standing (unsuccessfully) for the Federal Convention held in Adelaide. Called the "Greatest Australian Woman" by Miles Franklin and given the nomenclature of "Grand Old Woman of Australia' on her eightieth birthday, Spence was commemorated on the Australian five-dollar note issued for the Centenary of Federation of Australia.
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Mary Durack Dame Mary Durack AC, DBE (20 February 1913 – 16 December 1994) was an Australian author and historian. She wrote "Kings in Grass Castles" and "Keep Him My Country".
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Margaret Scott (author) Margaret Daphne Scott (20 June 1934 – 29 August 2005) was an Australian author, poet, comedian, educator and public intellectual.
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Matilda Jane Evans Henrietta Matilda Jane Evans ("née" Congreve) (7 August 1827 – 22 October 1886) was an Australian novelist, who wrote under the pseudonym Maud Jean Franc.
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Evelyn Juers Evelyn Juers (born 6 March 1950) is an Australian writer and publisher.
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Janetta Walters Janetta Walters is a fictional author of romantic novels, created by D. E. Stevenson. Born Jane Watt, about 1913, she and her sister Helen lived in a small house in Bayswater in semi-genteel poverty, until she discovered her writing talent. When her first romance, "Bride of May", was published by Abbott and Spicer, the two sisters could at last enjoy a life of comfort, with Jane writing and Helen acting as agent, housekeeper and amanuensis. Her subsequent books include "Her Loving Heart", "Her Prince at Last" and "Love Triumphant".
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Katherine Mary Clutterbuck Katherine Mary Clutterbuck CSC MBE (1860 in Wiltshire, England – 1946 in Nedlands, Western Australia), usually known as Sister Kate, was an Anglican nun who pioneered a cottage home system for looking after orphan babies and children in Western Australia. She later became well known for her work with Indigenous Australian children who were selected according to a criterion of skin colour and sent to her homes to groom the young "nearly white" children for absorption into the white community. These children would later be described as part of the "Stolen Generation".
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Chantal Dunbar Margaret Chantal Dunbar is an Australian author, photojournalist and environmental communications specialist. Her works are usually based on Indigenous, environmental and sustainable tourism issues.
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Coral Lansbury Coral Magnolia Lansbury (14 October 1929 – 3 April 1991) was an Australian-born writer and academic. She is the mother of Malcolm Turnbull, the 29th Prime Minister of Australia.
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St Margaret's Anglican Girls' School St Margaret's Anglican Girls School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls, located in Ascot, an inner-northern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Hammond (September 17, 1874 – February 22, 1970) was an author, philanthropist, and socialite. She was a member of the Vanderbilt family, and mother of music producer John Hammond. She was a keen musician and was president of numerous charitable societies.
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Audrey Brettle Alexandra Audrey Brettle (1937–2003), was a Black Country author of Scottish descent.
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Jean Bedford Jean Bedford (born 4 February 1946) is an English-born Australian writer who is best known for her crime fiction, but who has also written novels and short stories, as well as nonfiction. She is also an editor and journalist, and has taught creative writing in several universities for over 20 years.
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Libby Gleeson Libby Gleeson AM (born 1950) is an Australian children's author. Born in Young, New South Wales, she is one of six children, the sister of former ABC TV Washington Correspondent Michael Gleeson, and the mother of "Home and Away" actress Jessica Tovey and Sydney Morning Herald journalist Josephine Tovey. Her sister, Margie Gleeson, works as the head teacher of Creative and Performing Arts at Albury High School.
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Lady Sarah McCorquodale Lady Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia McCorquodale (née Spencer; born 19 March 1955) is the eldest daughter of John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, and the Hon. Frances Shand Kydd. She is the sister of Diana, Princess of Wales.
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Elizabeth Eggleston Elizabeth Moulton Eggleston (6 November 1934 – 24 March 1976) was an Australian activist, author, lawyer and champion for Indigenous Australians. She was described as a "gentle and unassuming" woman.
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John Nicholson (author) John Nicholson is an Australian children's author born in Singapore. He originally worked as an architect, graphic designer and illustrator before taking up writing in 1990.
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Thelma Forshaw Thelma Honora Forshaw or Thelma Körting (1 August 1923 – 8 October 1995) was an Australian short story writer and journalist. In 1967 she wrote a largely autobiographical collection of short stories, "An Affair of Clowns". As a journalist she worked as a freelance writer and book reviewer for "The Sydney Morning Herald", "The Age", "The Australian", "The Bulletin" (since defunct), "Meanjin", "Nation", and "Quadrant". Forshaw died on 8 October 1995 of a stroke in her sleep, aged 72.
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Amelia Adams Amelia Adams (née Charlton) is an Australian journalist, news presenter, producer and reporter.
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Rachel Billington Rachel Mary Billington OBE (née Pakenham, born 11 May 1942) is a British author, the third daughter of the Earl and Countess of Longford, both writers, as was her aunt, Christine Longford.
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Sara Henderson Sara Jane Henderson (15 September 1936 – 29 April 2005) was an Australian pastoralist and author who became an Australia household name after the publication of her autobiography "From Strength to Strength" in 1993 about rebuilding Bullo River cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia.