Deborah FitzGerald

The official biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ ‘I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been written about the poet’s extraordinary life. From her childhood and youth in Sydney’s Point Piper,...