Myrtle Rose White

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Myrtle Rose White


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Broken Hill, NSW, Australia

Myrtle Rose White (1888-1961), author, was born on 30 August 1888 at Acacia Dam, near Broken Hill, New South Wales, third of ten children of native-born parents Mark Albert Kennewell, miner, and his wife Dinah Ann, née Adams. The birth was dramatic. Travelling with bullock teams and looking for land to settle, Dinah gave birth alone in a tent, during a dust storm in which her husband became lost while fetching a midwife. The family moved to the Barossa Valley, South Australia, and Myrtle's schooling, 'picked up here and there', was completed at a small private school in Williamstown. She often visited her aunt who had a hotel near Packsaddle, north-west of the Darling River. Myrtle was a domestic servant when she married Cornelius White, a ...more

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No Roads Go By

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From that day to this (Seal...

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Beyond the Western Rivers

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For Those That Love It

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NO ROADS GO BY

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