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Fullerton, Mary Elizabeth (1868 - 1946)

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Author, Feminist, Novelist and Poet
Born: 14 May 1868  Glenmaggie, Victoria, Australia.  Died: 23 February 1946  Sussex, United Kingdom.

Mary Fullerton was involved with the Victorian Socialist Party and Women's Political Association, and was active in the suffrage movement in Australia. She wrote stories and poems for newspapers, sometimes using the pseudonyms of Alpenstock and Austeal. In 1922 she moved to England, where she developed a strong friendship with the author Miles Franklin. Over the course of her life, Fullerton published several novels and volumes of poetry. Her novel Two Women (written under a pseudonym) won a prize when it was published in 1923. Her childhood memoir, Bark House Days, was published in 1921, and reprinted twice.


Career Highlights
Alternative Names:
  • Alpenstock (pseudonym)
  • Austeal (pseudonym)
  • E (pseudonym)
 
Published Resources

Books

  • Fullerton, Mary, Moods and Melodies, Thomas C. Lothian, Melbourne, 1908. [ Details... ]
  • Fullerton, Mary, The Breaking Furrow, Commonwealth of Australia, Melbourne, 1921. [ Details... ]
  • Fullerton, Mary, Bark House Days, Sydney J. Endacott, Melbourne, 1921, 148 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Fullerton, Mary, The People of the Timber Belt, A.M. Philpot, London, 1925. [ Details... ]
  • Fullerton, Mary, The Australian Bush, J.M. Dent, London, 1928. [ Details... ]
  • Fullerton, Mary, A Juno of the Bush, Heath Cranton, London, 1930, 284 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Fullerton, Mary, Moles do so little with their privacy, T. Inglis Moore, Miles Franklin, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1942. [ Details... ]
  • Fullerton, Mary, The Wonder and the Apple, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1946. [ Details... ]
  • Fullerton, Mary (under pseudonym of Robert Gray), Rufus Sterne: A Novel, W. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1932. [ Details... ]
  • Martin, Sylvia, Passionate Friends: Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton and Miles Franklin, Onlywomen, London, 2001, 192 pp. [ Details... ]

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