What type of details about marie bjelke petersen can be gathered from the following bio? Bio: marie caroline bjelke petersen -lrb- 23 december 1874 -- 11 october 1969 -rrb- was a danish-born australian novelist and physical culture teacher . she wrote nine popular romance novels between 1917 and 1937 . her novels were set in australia , mostly in rural tasmania , and represent an alternative vision of australia to that of earlier writers . marie bjelke petersen 's biographer , alison alexander , wrote : '' with her danish background marie was not steeped in the laconic lore of the bush propagated by the '' bulletin '' and its school of admirers , and she set out to glorify her adopted land , to depict australia as a cultured civilised place , with charming people -lrb- setting aside the villains -rrb- , a quite different portrayal from that usually found in the literature of her day . '' it has been claimed that her works were more popular in the united states and england than australia . her brothers founded physical culture institutes which continued to function through the end of the 20th century , and her nephew , joh bjelke-petersen , became the premier of queensland .
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