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Women poets of the Victorian forests.
In the nineteenth century a distinctive group of seven women poets flourished in eastern Victoria. All spent their early years in forested hill country similar to that of the Dandenongs near Melbourne. They were in the main from families of pioneering settlers and traders.
Nellie Clerk (1855-1907) took up a selection block with her husband near Korumburra in south Gippsland. She began to write poems for the Mirboo Herald, and the paper published her collection Songs from the Gippsland Forests in 1887. Her poems were praised by the English litterateur Douglas Sladen in his anthologies of Australian literature published in London in 1888, but were little known in ...
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