Her Sunburnt Country

Her Sunburnt Country

Book Review: Her Sunburnt Country offers an in-depth look at the life of an early Australian literary pioneer

Are you curious about Australia’s early modernist literary movement? Then Her Sunburnt Country by Deborah FitzGerald is the perfect introduction. Many Australians should know of Dorothea Mackellar’s poem – “My Country”, with its captivating prose and beautiful description of Australia. Since the poem’s publication in 1908 it has only grown in popularity, quickly became a…

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