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Dorothea Mackellar

Australian poet and fiction writer

Died when: 82 years 197 days (990 months)
Star Sign: Cancer

 

Dorothea Mackellar

Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar, OBE (1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968) was an Australian poet and fiction writer.Her poem My Country is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "I love a sunburnt country/A land of sweeping plains,/Of ragged mountain ranges,/Of droughts and flooding rains."


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