Joice NanKivell Loch

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Joice Mary NanKivell Loch (24 January 1887 Ingham, Queensland – 8 October 1982)[1] is Australia's most decorated woman and has been described as "Australia's answer to the Scarlet Pimpernel, or Mother Teresa with a dash of Indiana Jones."[2]

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[edit] Biography

Joice NanKivell was born in Queensland, her father was a sugar cane farmer and her grandfather Thomas NanKivell was one of Australia's richest men. Their family fortune was lost when labour by Kanakas was abolished.

She and her husband, Gallopli veteran Frederick Sydney Loch, moved to Greece in the 1920s. In Greece they revived the rug industry and consequently the economy of the Greek village of Ouranoupolis.[2][3] During the second world war she saved many Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution.

NanKivell Loch is the author of nine books, written under various names, including Joice Nankivell Loch and Joice M. Nankivell [1].

[edit] Selected bibliography

[edit] Fiction

  • The Cobweb Ladder (1916, poetry and prose for children)
  • The Solitary Pedestrian (1918)
  • The Fourteen Thumbs of st Peter (1926)

[edit] Non-fiction

  • A Fringe of Blue (1968)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Agent Details: Loch, Joice Nankivell. author information available for public browsing. www.AustLit.edu.au. Retrieved on 2006-07-10.
  2. ^ a b Kontominas, B. The great heroine Australia forgot, Sydney Morning Herald, July 8, 2006
  3. ^ Maxine McKew; Susanna de Vries. "Transcript: Australian women of the century remembered in federation book", 7:30 report, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2000-12-28. Retrieved on 2006-08-08. 

[edit] References

  • Adelaide, Debra (1988) Australian women writers: a bibliographic guide, London, Pandora

[edit] Further reading

  • de Vries, Susanna, 'Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread: the Life of Joice NanKivell Loch (3rd ed., 2005)
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