Alison Dolling

Alison Dolling
Born (1917-08-29)29 August 1917
St Peters, South Australia
Died 25 July 2006(2006-07-25) (aged 88)
Pen name Mary Broughton
Occupation Writer
Alma mater University of Adelaide
Period 1966–2005
Notable works Chronicle Cameos (1977)
The History of Marion on the Sturt (1981)
A Child Went Forth (2005)

Alison Mary Dolling (29 August 1917 – 25 July 2006), also known by the pen-name Mary Broughton, was an Australian writer.

She was born at St Peters in Adelaide to Edward Bruno Dolling and Amy Caroline, née Thiselton.[1] She attended Ellerslie College in Tranmere and Methodist Ladies' College in Wayville, before studying journalism at the Universities of Washington, Seattle and Berkeley. After a period in England studying at King's College London, she returned to Australia and finally graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Classics from the University of Adelaide.[2] Dolling then worked as a secondary school teacher from 1941, and additionally was a part-time lecturer at the Adelaide Kindergarten Training College, teaching Australian literature and the history of education.[3] In 1962 she was appointed the editor of Opinion, the journal of the South Australian English Teachers' Association.[3]

Dolling was appointed women's editor of The Chronicle in 1966, using the pen-name Mary Broughton; she held the position until the Chronicle was discontinued in 1975.[2] In 1977 she published a compilation of her writings entitled Chronicle Cameos, and in 1981 published a history of Marion, The History of Marion on the Sturt.[1] The two books were runners-up for the Alexander Henderson Award, which is given by the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies.[2] Dolling continued to be active in the area of genealogical and women's history, serving as editor of From Shadows into Light, a study of South Australian women artists, in 1988.[2] Her last book, a memoir entitled A Child Went Forth, was published in 2005.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Lofthouse, Angela (1982). Who's Who of Australian Women. Methuen Australia. pp. 152–153.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Alison Mary Dolling (1917-2006)". Flinders University.
  3. 1 2 "Dolling, Alison Mary". Australian Women's Register.
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