Alexandra Hasluck

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Alexandra Hasluck, 1960

Dame Alexandra Margaret Martin Hasluck AD DStJ (birth name: Alexandra Margaret Martin Darker ; born August 26, 1908 in Perth , Western Australia , † June 18, 1993 ibid.) Was an Australian writer .

Life

Alexandra Darker studied at Perth College and the University of Western Australia (UWA) after attending school and was a teacher at Hilda's College after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) . In 1932 she married the history lecturer Paul Hasluck , who later became Foreign Minister and Governor General of Australia , and had two children with him, including the writer Nicholas Hasluck .

In the mid- 1950s she became a well-known writer herself, dealing in particular with historical figures in Australian colonial history such as the botanist Georgiana Molloy . In 1959 Unwilling Emigrants , an early history of Western Australia, was published. In addition, in the article Yagan the Patriot (1961) she dealt with the Noongar warrior Yagan , who played an important role in the resistance of the people of the Perth region against the occupation of the land by Europeans and was shot in 1833, and with Robert Lyon , one of the first to stand up for the rights of the indigenous peoples of Australia and actively care for their welfare, and defend the deeds of Yagan.

In 1963 she edited an edition of the letters of the writer Lady Broome, an early colonist of New Zealand , who was followed by a biography of her mother Evelyn Hill that same year . After biographies about Thomas Peel with the title Thomas Peel of Swan River (1965) and the engineer Charles O'Connor with the title CY O'Connor (1965) a collection of short stories appeared in 1970 . In 1971 she became Lady of the Order of Saint John . In 1973 she published Sir Edmund du Cane , a biography of the prison reformer of the same name, before in 1978 she published Audrey Tennyson's Vice-Regal Days, a collection of the letters of Lady Audrey Tennyson, wife of the Australian Governor General Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson .

On June 6, 1978, she was appointed Lady of the Order of Australia , becoming the first woman to carry this title.

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SURNAME Hasluck, Alexandra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hasluck, Lady Alexandra Margaret Martin (full name); Draker, Alexandra Margaret Martin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Perth , Western Australia
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1993
Place of death Perth , Western Australia