Alma Butterfield was an Australian writer and character actress. She was best known for her work on radio including the Gwen Meredith serials The Lawsons and a long stint on its sequel Blue Hills as Mrs. Jenkins.[1] According to one critic her performance in TV movie The Slaughter of St Terese's Day was "sublime: she brilliantly encapsulates an entire generation of Australian womanhood, with her hunched shoulders, faded dress, mangled vocabulary and verbal sniping."[2]
As a writer she authored six children's stories, two chiildren's plays and several poems, as well as contributing humorous stories to magazines.