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Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar OBE (1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968) was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem " My Country " is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains, / Of ragged mountain ranges, / Of droughts and flooding rains."
Official Dorothea Mackellar Website. This is the official Dorothea Mackellar website detailing information on her personal and professional history, photographs, poems and copyright requirements.
My love is otherwise. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror –. The wide brown land for me!
ABOUT DOROTHEA MACKELLAR. Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar was born on 1 July 1885, at her family’s home “Dunara” that stood on Point Piper, overlooking Rose Bay on Sydney Harbour. The third of four children, Dorothea was the only daughter born to renowned physician and Parliamentarian, Sir Charles Kinnaird Mackellar and his wife, Marion ...
Dorothea Mackellar? In the New Year’s Day Honours of 1968, Dorothea Mackellar was Appointed an Officer of the “Order of the British Empire” for her contribution to Australian Literature. She was a third generation Australian.
Home - Dorothea Mackellar. ENTRIES ARE NOW OPEN!! The Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards seek to capture the imaginations of school students across Australia, inspiring them to express their thoughts and feelings through the medium of poetry in their pursuit of literary excellence.
"My Country" is a poem about Australia, written by Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968) at the age of 19 while homesick in the United Kingdom. After travelling through Europe extensively with her father during her teenage years, she started writing the poem in London in 1904 [1] and re-wrote it several times before her return to Sydney .
Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968) is best known as a poet, the author of 'My Country', first published in 1908 under the title 'Core of My Heart'. She also wrote three novels. Dorothea Mackellar was born Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar at Point Piper in Sydney, NSW on 1 July 1885.
DOROTHEA Mackellar became a national figure after she wrote My Country, six verses of superb description, which became Australia’s best-loved and most-quoted poem because it so well portrays Australia’s inland.
THE POETRY OF DOROTHEA MACKELLAR. The first draft of what was to become Australia’s most quoted and best loved poem, My Country, was written at age 19 in England at a time when Dorothea was feeling homesick. Published in the London Spectator under the title Core of My Heart in 1908, Dorothea was never quite content with the verses. She wrote ...
