1. Henrietta Drake-Brockman was an Australian journalist and novelist.
12 Facts About Henrietta Drake-Brockman
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Henrietta Drake-Brockman was educated in Scotland, her mother's homeland, and at Frensham school for girls in Mittagong.
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Henrietta Drake-Brockman studied literature at the University of Western Australia and art in Henri Van Raalte's Perth studio.
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Henrietta Drake-Brockman married Geoffrey Drake-Brockman, then Commissioner for north western Australia, in 1921.
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Amongst the many articles she wrote during the 1940s and 1950s for Walkabout, in January 1955, Henrietta Drake-Brockman diverged from general opinion and closely estimated the Batavias correct resting place.
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Henrietta Drake-Brockman used an aqualung to inspect the wreck of the vessel off the Abrolhos Islands.
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Henrietta Drake-Brockman was co-editor with Walter Murdoch of Australian Short Stories.
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Henrietta Drake-Brockman wrote for the theatre in Perth during the 1930s and '40s.
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Henrietta Drake-Brockman's plays, for the most part, depicted the people and isolated places of her earlier fiction.
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Henrietta Drake-Brockman admired and wrote on the work of Katharine Susannah Prichard.
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Henrietta Drake-Brockman joined the Sydney branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers in 1939.
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Henrietta Drake-Brockman edited several collections of short stories and her own were compiled in Sydney or the Bush.