Dorothea Mackellar
- Category : 1885-births
- Type : MGP
- Profile : 6/2 - Role Model / Hermit
- Definition : Split - Small (1,9,10,33,34,51,60)
- Incarnation Cross : LAX Demands 1
Biography
Australian poet whose stanza "I love a sunburnt country" is one of Australia's best-known pieces of lyric verse, taken from "My Country," written in 1904. Her famous poem was first published in the Spectator in London on 12/31/1908.
The daughter of a hospital director and a socialite, Mackellar studied at the U. of Sydney. Due to her family status, she moved in the elite social and intellectual circles of both Sydney and London. Her first volume of poems, "The Closed Door," was published in 1911. She continued to write until 1943 but interest in her work waned. She never married and after a stroke, died on 1/14/1968.