People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Alternative Names

• Cameron, Mary Jean

Birth

16 August, 1865
Woodhouselee, New South Wales, Australia

Death

3 December, 1962 (aged 97)
New South Wales, Australia

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• Irish
• Scottish

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Presbyterian

Occupation

• autobiographer/memoirist
• columnist
• contemporary-affairs commentator
• essayist
• journalist
• pacifist
• poet
• schoolteacher
• socialist
• utopian

Awards

• Gold Medal (Australian Literature Society)

Legacies

• Dame Mary Gilmore medal