Mollie Skinner

Mary Louisa ("Mollie") Skinner (19 September 1876 – 25 May 1955) was an Australian Quaker, nurse and writer born in Perth.[1] She wrote a memoir describing her experiences during the First World War. Mollie was the co-owner of a guesthouse in Darlington, Western Australia, where D. H. Lawrence stayed, shortly after arriving in the country in 1922. Her draft novel The House of Ellis was rewritten by Lawrence and published as The Boy in the Bush in August 1924.

Skinner's autobiography was edited by Mary Durack Miller while Skinner's health was failing and later published posthumously in 1972.[2]

A street in the Canberra suburb Cook was named in her honour.

References

  1. Birman, Wendy; Pell, Olive (6 May 2015). "Skinner, Mary Louisa (Mollie) (1876–1955)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  2. Birman, Wendy; Pell, Olive (6 May 2015). "Skinner, Mary Louisa (Mollie) (1876–1955)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography. Retrieved 6 May 2015.

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