Jennings Carmichael

Jennings Carmichael
Born
Grace Elizabeth Jennings Carmichael

(1868-02-24)24 February 1868
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Died9 February 1904(1904-02-09) (aged 35)
London, England
Occupationwriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Years active1886-1904

Jennings Carmichael (24 February 1867 – 9 February 1904) was an Australian poet and nurse.

Life

Grace Elizabeth Jennings Carmichael was born on 24 February 1867[1] at Ballarat, Victoria.[1] The daughter of Archibald Carmichael, a miner from Perthshire, Scotland[1] and Margaret Jennings, née Clark, from Cornwall.[1]

Carmichael joined the Buonarottii Club before 1887,[2] and was a member of the Austral Salon in the 1890s giving a public lecture on "The Spirit of the Bush" in September 1895 at the Masonic Hall in Melbourne with Alfred Deakin as chairman.[3]

Works

English Wikisource has original works by or about:
  • Hospital Children : sketches of life and character in the Children's Hospital, Melbourne (1891)[4]
  • Poems (1895)[5]
  • For Some One's Sake (1955)[6][7]

Personal life

Carmichael married Henry Francis Mullis on 1 April 1895 in Fitzroy.[1] Carmichael had four sons and a daughter.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Gardiner, Lyndsay, "Carmichael, Grace Elizabeth Jennings (1867–1904)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 17 January 2020
  2. ^ Lawson, L. T. (10 August 1929). "The Argus Camera Supplement: The Buonarotti Club, Bohemians of the 'Eighties. Memories of Noted Artists". The Argus. p. 3. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  3. ^ "THE SPIRIT OF THE BUSH". Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957). 19 September 1895. p. 6. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  4. ^ Carmichael, Jennings (1891). Hospital children: sketches of life and character in the Childrens Hospital, Melbourne. G. Robertson.
  5. ^ Carmichael, Jennings (1895), Poems, Melbourne: Longmans, Green and Co., retrieved 17 January 2020
  6. ^ Carmichael, Jennings; Society, Lindsay Gordon Lovers' (1800). For some one's sake : a poem. Melbourne: Lindsay Gordon Lovers Society.
  7. ^ "Our Women's Page". Worker (Wagga, NSW : 1892 - 1913). 19 May 1910. p. 7. Retrieved 17 January 2020.


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