Margaret Curran (poet) explained

Margaret Curran (1887–1962) was an Australian poet, editor, and journalist.[1]

Biography

Born in Colinton near Esk, Queensland,[2] [3] Curran was educated at the Ipswich Convent. She published several poems in Queensland literary journal The Muses' Magazine in the 1920s.[4] She worked as a journalist and editor for the Queensland magazine The Steering Wheel and Society and Home, was a sub-editor for the Toowoomba Chronicle. The Oxford Literary Guide to Australia identified Cullen as an "author of verse, short stories and serials", and as an editor of Country Woman and Producer's Review,[5] the position that she held until her retirement. She was President of the Ladies Literary Society in Toowoomba from 1933 to 1963.[6] [7] In this capacity she organised various events including regular pilgrimages to pay tribute to writer Arthur Hoey Davis, known as Steele Rudd.[8] Curran was a descendant of nineteenth-century Scottish poet Janet Hamilton.[9]

Works

Honors

There is a plaque dedicated to her at Toowoomba City Library, Toowoomba, Queensland.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Buckridge, Patrick. By the Book: A Literary History of Queensland. Read How You Want. 172.
  2. Book: Buckridge, Patrick. By the Book: A Literary History of Queensland. Read How You Want. 175.
  3. Web site: Margaret Curran. Monument Australia website. 27 September 2012.
  4. Book: Kirkpatrick, Peter. Republics of letters: literary communities in Australia. 2010. Sydney University Press. 48.
  5. Peter Pierce, Rosemary Hunter, The Oxford Literary Guide to Australia (1993), p. 194.
  6. Web site: The Toowoomba Ladies Literary Society and the Civic Function of a Literary Past. University of Southern Queensland Public Memory Research Cluster. 27 September 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130311033939/http://www.usq.edu.au/pmrc/literaryhistory/history/ladiesliterary. 11 March 2013. dmy-all.
  7. Lee, Christopher, "A Society of Country Women and the Functions of Literary Property", Journal of Australian Studies, March 1997
  8. Book: Gibson, Lisanne. Monumental Queensland: Signposts on a Cultural Landscape. 2004. Univ. of Queensland Press. 177.
  9. Florence S. Boos, Working-Class Women Poets in Victorian Britain: An Anthology (2008), p. 11.

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