Dorothea Mackellar, Australian author and poet (died 1968)

Dorothea Mackellar

Australian poet (1885–1968)

Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem "My Country" is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains, / Of ragged mountain ranges, / Of droughts and…