Myrtle Rose White

Myrtle Rose White
Signed photograph of Myrtle Rose White (undated)
Signed photograph of Myrtle Rose White (undated)
BornMyrtle Rose Kennewell
(1888-08-30)30 August 1888
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Died11 July 1961(1961-07-11) (aged 72)
Port Hedland, Western Australia
Notable worksNo Roads Go By

Myrtle Rose White (1888–1961) was an Australian novelist. She is best known for No Roads Go By, a work of autobiographical fiction.[1][2]

Life

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Myrtle Rose White was the third child of Dina Ann (née Adams) and miner Mark Albert Kennewell. She was born in a tent near Broken Hill, New South Wales on 30 August 1888.[1] She grew up in South Australia's Barossa Valley.[3] Her education was sporadic before she attended a private school in Williamstown, South Australia.[1]

Following her marriage in 1910 to Cornelius White, known as Con, the couple moved to Lake Elder in South Australia, where he managed a rural property. This later served as the setting for her first book,[3] which was favourably compared with Mrs Aeneas Gunn's We of the Never Never.[4] Originally published in 1932, a new edition was released by Angus & Robertson in 1954, incorporating illustrations by Elizabeth Durack.[5]

Personal

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White's husband Con died in Adelaide in 1940[6] and was buried in Centennial Park Cemetery.[7] White died on 11 July 1961 while visiting her son, Alan, at Port Hedland, Western Australia. Her body was cremated in Perth and her ashes interred as she wished, part in Centennial Park Cemetery and part at Wonnaminta Station, outside Broken Hill.[3]

Selected works

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  • White, Myrtle Rose (1932). No roads go by. Rigby.[8][9][10]
  • ——— (1933). For those that love it. Angus & Robertson.[11][12]
  • ——— (1961). From that day to this. Rigby.[13][14]
  • ——— (1955). Beyond the western rivers. Angus and Robertson.[15]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Eaden, Robin, "White, Myrtle Rose (1888–1961)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 30 October 2022
  2. ^ Hancock, Janette Helen (26 September 2007), A not so innocent vision: re-visiting the literary works of Ellen Liston, Jane Sarah Doudy and Myrtle Rose White (1838-1961), retrieved 31 October 2022
  3. ^ a b c "Myrtle Rose White". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Jeffery Farnol's Stories of Old London". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 29, 482. New South Wales, Australia. 1 July 1932. p. 4. Retrieved 11 November 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Book Review: Woman Tells Story of Life in S.A. Desert Station Home". The Land. No. 2251. New South Wales, Australia. 19 November 1954. p. 23. Retrieved 11 November 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Family Notices". Chronicle. Vol. LXXXIII, no. 4, 739. South Australia. 17 October 1940. p. 21. Retrieved 11 November 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "Family Notices". The Mail (Adelaide). Vol. 29, no. 1, 481. South Australia. 12 October 1940. p. 10. Retrieved 11 November 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ White, Myrtle Rose; Durack, Elizabeth, 1915-2000 (1954), No roads go by (illustrated ed.), Angus and Robertson, retrieved 31 October 2022{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "BOOK REVIEWS". Kalgoorlie Miner. Vol. 60, no. 16933. Western Australia. 19 October 1954. p. 10. Retrieved 31 October 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ^ "Current Literature". The Telegraph. Queensland, Australia. 18 June 1932. p. 6 (SPORTS FINAL). Retrieved 1 November 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ^ White, Myrtle Rose, For those that love it., s.n, retrieved 1 November 2022
  12. ^ ""For Those That Love It."". The Wingham Chronicle And Manning River Observer. New South Wales, Australia. 3 November 1933. p. 1. Retrieved 31 October 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. ^ Myrtle Rose White (1971), From that day to this, [Adelaide] Rigby, ISBN 978-0-85179-111-1
  14. ^ "The Red Page Native Soil (17 June 1961)", The Bulletin, 82 (4244), John Haynes and J.F. Archibald: 37, 17 June 1961, ISSN 0007-4039
  15. ^ White, Myrtle Rose (1955), Beyond the western rivers, Angus and Robertson, retrieved 1 November 2022
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