Australian Women's Register

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne

Skip to content

Browse Entries

Use Trove to find more resources by/about this Woman

  • Trove

Dolling, Alison (1917 - )

Born
29 August 1917
St Peters, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Teacher and Writer
Alternative Names
  • Broughton, Mary (pseudonym)

Summary

The daughter of Edward and Amy (née Thiselton) Dolling, Alison Dolling was born in St Peters and grew up in Tranmere, South Australia. She was educated at Ellerslie College, Tranmere, and Methodist Ladies College, Wayville, before studing at the universities of Adelaide, Washington, Seattle, Berkeley and King's College, London. Returning to Australia she taught in both South Australia and New South Wales, including ex-servicemen after World War II. Dolling joined the Chronicle newspaper as the editor of the Women's Pages and was unemployed after the Chronicle closed down. Her publications include Chronicle cameos and a district history of Marion. She completed research on John Harvey and the Spoehr family, as well as being involved with family history and German ancestry. She also worked on the book South Australian Women Artists by Shirley Cameron Wilson. Dolling's special interests included Australian history, especially early architecture, literature and art.

Details

Events

1941 - 1965
Secondary school teacher
1950s
Tutor of migrants and Asian students
1958 - 1962
Part-time lecturer in Australian literature and history of education at the Kindergarten Training College, Adelaide
1960s
Member of the Australian Federation of University Women
1962 - 1971
Editor of Opinion,the journal of the SA English Teachers Association
1965
Member of the Lyceum Club (Adelaide)
1974
Member of the Historical Society of South Australia
1976
Awarded an Australia Council grant from the Literature Board
1976
Member of Women in Media
1977
Member of the Australian Society of Authors
1977 - 1979
Editor of Bulletin, the National Council of Women of Australia quarterly

Sources used to compile this entry: Dolling, Alison M., 'Dolling, Dorothy Eleanor Ethel Victoria Georgina Barber (1897 - 1967)', in Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, Australian National University, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140019b.htm; Lofthouse, Andrea (ed.), Who's who of Australian women, Methuen Australia, North Ryde (NSW), 1982, 504 pp. pp. 152-53.; I>http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:1083/search/adolling%2C+alison/adolling+alison/1,1,2,B/frameset&FF=adolling+alison&1,,2 accessed 2004-04-05.

Related entries

Archival resources

State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana

  • Interview with Alison Dolling [sound recording] Interviewer: Yvonne Abbott, 12 December 1985, SRG 438/29/2; Dolling, Alison (1917 - ); State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Dolling, Alison, H.O. Hannaford looks back, The Chronicle, Adelaide, 1974. Details
  • Dolling, Alison, Chronicle cameos, Nadjuri Australia, Jamestown, S.A., 1977, 184 pp. Details
  • Dolling, Alison, The history of Marion on the Sturt : the story of a changing landscape and its people, Peacock Publications, Frewville, S. A., 1981, 397 pp. Details
  • Dolling, Alison, The hand to the plough : die Familie Dolling in Australien : a social history, The Dolling Heritage Association, [Adelaide], c2000, 224 pp. Details

Online Resources

See also

  • Dolling, Alison (ed.), From shadow into light : South Australian women artists since colonisation / Shirley Cameron Wilson, Delmont Pty Ltd, St. Peters, S. A., 1988, 208 pp. Details
  • Dolling, Alison (ed.), Greek women in South Australian society 1923-1993 / [compiled by] Georgia Xenophou, G. Xenophou in association with the Greek Women's Society of S.A., [Adelaide], 1994, 118 pp. Details
  • Dolling, Alison (edited by) and Bull, Beverley (compiled by) (eds), Papers : 1980 Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry, April 4-7, South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society, Adelaide, c1980. Details
  • Hamilton, Sydney H. (Sydney Holmes), Recollections of Sydney Holmes Hamilton, 1898-1987, [Diana Ramsay], [Walkerville, S. A.], 1992, 67 pp. Details
  • Lofthouse, Andrea (ed.), Who's who of Australian women, Methuen Australia, North Ryde (NSW), 1982, 504 pp. pp. 152-53. Details
  • Orland, W. T. (William T.), Memoirs of land and sea, [W.T. Orland], [Murray Bridge, S.A.], [1975], 72 pp. Details

Anne Heywood and Robin Secomb

Created: 5 April 2004, Last modified: 4 May 2009

Comments

Leave a comment

Comment guidelines

(required)
(required)

Site-wide information and acknowledgements

National Foundation for Australian Women The University of Melbourne, eScholarship Research Centre

http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0828b.htm

The Australian Women's Register is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License