Mollie Skinner
Mary Louisa ("Mollie") Skinner (19 September 1876 – 25 May 1955) was an Australian Quaker, nurse and writer. She wrote a memoir describing her experiences during the First World War. Mollie was the co-owner of a guesthouse in Darlington, Western Australia, where D. H. Lawrence stayed, shortly after arriving in the country in 1922. Her draft novel The House of Ellis was rewritten by Lawrence and published as The Boy in the Bush in August 1924.
A street in the Canberra suburb Cook was named in her honour.
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Further reading
- Bartlett, Norman (1984) Mollie Skinner and The Boy in the Bush. Quadrant, July/Aug. 1984, p. 73-75.
- Pell, Olive, (1988). Mollie Skinner. p.59-64 of - Brian Dibble, Don Grant, Glen Phillips (eds) Celebrations : a bicentennial anthology of fifty years of Western Australian poetry and prose Nedlands, W.A : University of Western Australia Press. 0855642939 (pbk.)
- Rees, Marjorie (1964) Mollie Skinner and D.H. Lawrence Westerly, March 1964.
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19 September 1876 |
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25 May 1955 |
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