Birth date: 
1885
Death date: 
1968
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Dorothea McKellar was born in Sydney in 1858 into a well-established, wealthy family, and was educated privately at the University of Sydney. At 19 years old she wrote a poem, 'My Country', the second verse of which is perhaps the best known stanza in Australian poetry. Her family owned substantial properties in the Gunnedah district of New South Wales and it is in this town which claims her as their own, there a statue of her on horseback has been erected.

Dorothea died in 1968

Poems by this Poet

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Burning Off 31 July 2013
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In a Southern Garden 31 July 2013
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My Country 31 July 2013
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The Open Sea 31 July 2013
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