Hill, Ernestine (1899–1972)

views updated

Hill, Ernestine (1899–1972)

Australian novelist and travel writer. Born 1899 in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia; died in Brisbane, 1972; children: 1 son.

Following husband's death (1933), wandered almost continuously, then published The Great Australian Loneliness (1937), detailing 5 years of travel in Australian outback; only novel My Love Must Wait (1941), based on explorer Matthew Flinders, sold 10,000 copies during wartime; published Flying Doctor Calling (1947) and The Territory (1951), considered by many to be her best; claimed responsi-bility, in large part, for the writing of Daisy Bates' Passing of the Aborigines (1938), in her Kabbarli: A Personal Memoir of Daisy Bates (1973), which was published posthumously.

E See also Women in World History.