- Jennings Carmichael
Jennings Carmichael (
24 February 1868 –9 February 1904 ), was an Australian poet.The daughter of
Archibald Carmichael , Grace Elizabeth Jennings Carmichael was born atEast Ballarat in 1868. She was educated at Melbourne, while still a child went to live on a station atOrbost , and grew up close to the bush she came to love so much. In 1888 she went toMelbourne to be trained as anurse at theRoyal Children's Hospital, Melbourne , and in 1891 published a small volume of prose sketches, "Hospital Children". Having qualified she obtained a position on a station nearGeelong , and subsequently marriedFrancis Mullis . She contributed verse to the "Australasian", and in 1895 "Poems" by Jennings Carmichael was published. She lived for a time inSouth Australia and then went toLondon , where she died in poor circumstances in 1904. In 1910 a small selection of her poems was published, in 1937 a plaque to her memory was unveiled at Orbost, and a year later a replica was placed in the public library at Ballarat. Two of Jennings Carmichael's sons were present at the ceremony.Jennings Carmichael wrote much good and pleasant verse with occasional touches of poetry.
Brunton Stephens called Miss Carmichael theJean Ingelow of Australia. Comparisons of this kind have little value, but it may be said that Miss Carmichael's position in relation to the leading Australian poets, is not dissimilar to that of Miss Ingelow in comparison withRobert Browning andAlfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson .References
*Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=Jennings|Last=Carmichael|Link=http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogCa-Ch.html#carmichael1
*Lyndsay Gardiner, ' [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070571b.htm Carmichael, Grace Elizabeth Jennings (1867 - 1904)] ',Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 7, Melbourne University Press, 1979, p. 564.Persondata
NAME=Carmichael, Grace Elizabeth Jennings
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Carmichael, Jennings
SHORT DESCRIPTION=poet
DATE OF BIRTH=24 February 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH=East Ballarat , Victoria,Australia
DATE OF DEATH=9 February 1904
PLACE OF DEATH=London ,England
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