Coonardoo they called it, the dark well, or the well in the shadows.
Katharine Susannah Prichard Quotes
Showing all quotesBirth: | 4th December, 1883 |
Death: | 2nd October, 1969 |
Nationality: | Australian |
Profession: | Author |
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Prichard was born in Levuka, Fiji in 1883, and spent her childhood in Launceston, Tasmania, before moving to Melbourne, Victoria, where she won a scholarship to South Melbourne College. Her father, Tom Prichard, was editor of the Melbourne Sun newspaper. She worked as a governess and journalist in Victoria then travelled to England in 1908. Her first novel, The Pioneers, won the Hodder & Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize. After her return to Australia, the romance Windlestraws and her first novel of a mining community, Black Opal were published.
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