Pierce O' Grady's Daughter - An Australian Story

By Marion Miller Knowles

Published by Pellegrini & Co: Melbourne c1928 1st Edition (undated, research indicates probably 1928 1st edition copy)

Rare Book - unable to find another copy for sale online at time of listing.

"Marion Miller Knowles MBE (1865-1949) was an Australian journalist, poet, writer and Catholic charity worker. She was a journalist for the Melbourne Advocate for 30 years and conducted the Women's and Children's pages until her retirement in 1927. She also was a charity worker for the Melbourne Catholic Orphanage and the Wattle Day appeals. In 1893 her first poems appeared in The Australasian under the name "John Desmond". In 1931 she received a pension from the Commonwealth Literary Fund. Knowles was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1938 Birthday Honours, being recognised as "a well-known Australian writer of books for girls"."