Dorothea Mackellar

Isobel Marion 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."

Dorothea Mackellar

BornIsobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar
(1885-07-01)1 July 1885
Dunara, Point Piper, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died14 January 1968(1968-01-14) (aged 82)
Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales
Resting placeWaverley Cemetery
OccupationPoet
NationalityAustralian
GenresPoetry
Notable works"My Country"
RelativesSir Charles Mackellar (father)
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