Dorothea Mackellar
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Dunara, Mackellar's childhood home in Point Piper Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar （better known as Dorothea Mackellar）, OBE （1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968） was an Australian poet and fiction writer.
Her poem My Country is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "I love a sunburnt country/A land of sweeping plains,/Of ragged mountain ranges,/Of
droughts and flooding rains."master chibova0660000062 Dorothea Mackellar dressed as one of the Graces for Mrs. T.H. Kelly's Italian Red Cross Day tableaux at the Palace Theatre,
20 June 1918 The third child and only daughter of physician and parliamentarian Sir Charles Mackellar and his wife Marion Mackellar
（née Buckland）, the daughter of Thomas Buckland, she was born in the family home Dunara at Point Piper, Sydney, Australia in 1885.
Her later home was Cintra at Darling Point （built in 1882 by John Mackintosh for his son James）, and in 1925, she commissioned a summer cottage （in reality a substantial home with colonnaded verandah overlooking Pittwater）, "Tarrangaua" at Lovett Bay, an isolated location on Pittwater reachable only by boat （this home is currently the residence of the novelist and author Susan Duncan and her husband, Bob Story, and features prominently in a number of Susan's books）.
A woman of independent means, she published poetry and other works between 1908 and 1926 and was active in the Sydney literary scene of the 1930s,
being involved with the Sydney Publishers, Editors and Novelists Club, the Bush Book Club of New South Wales and the Sydney P.E.N. Club.
In her later years she ceased writing and, suff...