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Betty Roland (22 July 1903 – 12 February 1996) was an Australian writer of plays, screenplays, novels, children's books and comics. Early years [ edit ] Betty Roland was born Mary Isobel Maclean at Kaniva , Victoria, the daughter of Roland and Matilda Maclean. [1]
- Drama, children's fiction
- Writer, dramatist, radio plays
- Australian
- 20th century
Betty Roland was born Elizabeth Maclean in the town of Kaniva in 1903, and spent her early years in the Australian bush. She took the surname "Roland"—her father's given name—in 1951. Her formal education ended relatively early, as she dropped out of school at the age of 16 and started her writing career as a journalist for Table Talk and ...
Betty Roland (1903–1996), playwright and author, was born Mary Isabel Maclean on 22 July 1903 at Kaniva, Victoria, only child of Roland Maclean, medical practitioner, and his wife Matilda, née Blayney, both Victorian born. After her father died in 1907 Betty moved with her mother to her maternal grandparents’ farm in the Goulburn Valley.
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Betty Roland (July 22, 1903 – February 12, 1996) was an Australian writer of plays, screenplays, novels, children's books and comics. She was born Mary Isobel Maclean at Kaniva, Victoria, the daughter of Roland and Matilda Maclean.[1] She left school at sixteen to work as a journalist for Table Talk and the Sun News-Pictorial, and married Ellis Harvey Davies in 1923.[2] Her best known play ...
Jan 1, 2001 · This book provides under-researched information about Australia's art scene through both the Montsalvat artists and women artists/writers at the time. Without giving away too much, it is poignant, bitter yet honest biography. There is much about Roland's own struggles to make her way with her writing, as well as her tumultuous personal life.
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The First Gentleman is a 1945 Australian radio play by Betty Roland about Benjamin Boyd. [2] [3] It was one of Roland's most notable works. [4] The original cast included Hal Lashwood and Patricia Kennedy. [5] The production was well received and the ABC produced it again in 1946, 1949, 1952 [6] 1955 [7] and 1959. [8]
Betty Roland, (born Mary Isabel MacClean, Kaniva, Victoria, Australia, on 22 July 1903; died Syney, Australia, 12 February 1996), writer, married Peter Ellis Davies, and as Betty M. Davies, wrote the screenplay for Spur of the Moment (1931), the first Australian "talkie". She divorced in 1934 and moved to London with Marxist intellectual Guido Baracchi. They had a daughter, Gilda. They spent a ...
