Marie Caroline Bjelke Petersen (23 December 1874 – 11 October 1969) was a Danish-Australian novelist and physical culture teacher. She wrote nine popular...
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Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen KCMG (13 January 1911 – 23 April 2005) was an Australian politician. He was the longest-serving premier of Queensland, holding...
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Hans Christian Bjelke-Petersen (14 April 1872 – 23 May 1964) was a Danish-Australian proponent of physical culture. He established one of Australia's...
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Bjelke-Petersen is the name of an Australian family of Danish descent. The common ancestors of the Australian family are Georg Peter Bjelke-Petersen (born...
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Bjelke is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bjelke (Dano-Norwegian family) Bjelke-Petersen, the name of an Australian family of both...
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curler Marie Bjelke Petersen (1874–1969), Danish-Australian novelist and physical culture teacher Marie Petersen (1816–1859), German author Marie Petiet...
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Physical culture (redirect from Bjelke-Petersen School of Physical Culture)
medical gymnasium Bjelke-Petersen Bros, founded in Hobart in 1892 by Danish immigrant Christian Bjelke-Petersen, whose sister Marie ran the women's section...
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(1935–2008, Wales/England, f/nf) Robert Peters (1924–2014, US, p/nf/d) Marie Bjelke Petersen (1874–1969, Denmark/Australia, f) Len Peterson (1917–2008, Canada...
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Maria Carolina (redirect from Marie Caroline)
Bourbon (born 2003), daughter of Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro Marie Caroline Bjelke-Petersen (1874–1969), Danish-Australian novelist Maria Veleda (Maria...
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Pierre Bernard Mark Berry Joe Bonomo George Brosius Drexel Biddle Marie Bjelke Petersen William Blaikie Paul Bragg Alan Calvert Edwin Checkley C. Ward Crampton...
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Birtles (1903–1992) K. J. Bishop (living) Emily Bitto (living) Marie Bjelke-Petersen (1874–1969) Estelle Blackburn (born 1950) Georgia Blain (1964–2016)...
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Cross Jørgen Jørgensen 1780–1841 Sailor and Adventurer Danish-born Marie Bjelke Petersen 1874–1969 Novelist Danish-born Candy Devine — Broadcaster Of Danish...
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Austria-Hungary, nf) Isidora Bjelica (1966–2020, Yugoslavia/Serbia, f/nf/d) Marie Bjelke-Petersen (1874–1969, Australia, f) Mirjana Bjelogrlić-Nikolov (born 1961...
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and directed by herself and her husband. Based on the novel by Marie Bjelke Petersen, Jewelled Nights told the story of a young woman who escaped from...
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Nights premiered in Tasmania at The Strand, which was attended by Marie Bjelke Petersen, who wrote the original novel, and future-Prime Minister Joseph...
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Dora Birtles (1903–1992), fiction writer, poet and travel writer Marie Bjelke-Petersen (1874–1969), novelist Georgia Blain (1964–2016), novelist, journalist...
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critic & fiction wr. Isidora Bjelica (1967–2020, Serbia), wr. & pw. Marie Bjelke-Petersen (1874–1969, Australia), nv. Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir (b. 1982, Iceland)...
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Australian literature during 1923. J. H. M. Abbott – Sydney Cove Marie Bjelke Petersen – Jewelled Nights Capel Boake — The Romany Mark Bernard Cronin –...
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who wrote as Tasma in her short story Monsieur Caloche (1889), Marie Bjelke Petersen in Jewelled Nights (1923) and, after Langley, Kylie Tennant in her...
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fictionalising this experience in My Brilliant Career (1901). Marie Bjelke Petersen's popular romance novels, published between 1917 and 1937, offered...
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including Jewelled Nights (1925), which was attended by author Marie Bjelke Petersen, future-Prime Minister Joseph Lyons (then-Premier of Tasmania),...
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films, set in Tasmania – an adaptation of The Captive Singer by Marie Bjelke-Petersen, and an unnamed story set on the west coast. The Throwback started...
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final issue of Aussie: The Australian Soldiers' Magazine appears. Marie Bjelke-Petersen — The Rainbow Lute Eleanor Dark — Slow Dawning Jean Devanny — Poor...
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emissions. Colonel Andrew Geils – Commandant of Tasmania 1812-1813 Marie Bjelke Petersen - novelist and physical culture teacher. Her last house in Australia...
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Party premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, to dismiss five of his ministers and call fresh elections. Campbell believed that Bjelke-Petersen had lost the confidence...
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historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1927. Marie Bjelke-Petersen – The Moon Minstrel Bernard Cronin Red Dawson White Gold Zora Cross...
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— Lionel Lindsay, artist and essayist (died 1961) 23 December — Marie Bjelke Petersen, novelist (died 1969) 26 December — J. H. M. Abbott, poet and novelist...
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historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1930. Marie Bjelke-Petersen – Monsoon Music Jean Devanny Bushman Burke Devil Made Saint Miles...
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Pierre Bernard Mark Berry Joe Bonomo George Brosius Drexel Biddle Marie Bjelke Petersen William Blaikie Paul Bragg Alan Calvert Edwin Checkley C. Ward Crampton...
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vanguard of a revitalised Australian film industry. The writer Marie Bjelke-Petersen approached Carbasse, proposing she make a feature film of her just-published...
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