Mollie Gillen

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Kathleen Mollie Gillen b. Woolnough (born November 1, 1908 in Sydney , † January 3, 2009 in Toronto ) was an Australian historian and writer. Her most important work is a multi-volume compilation of people of European descent who came to Australia on January 28, 1788 with the First Fleet .

Early life

Mollie Gillen was the daughter of RE Woolnough, a doctor, and Bertha Grace, nee Youdale. Her parents died at the age of 10 and she grew up with her grandparents. In 1930 she graduated from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Arts .

When she was working in London in the 1930s, she met her future husband, a Canadian. After the end of World War II , she went to Canada with her husband.

Her writing career began in the 1950s. She wrote for several magazines and wrote short stories. Her first novel, Star of Death , was published in Great Britain in 1960.

In Canada, in addition to her historical subjects about Australia, she wrote literature on the life and love life of the British nobility, the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval , the Massey Ferguson industrial family and the Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery .

Main work

The publication in 1989 of their major multi-volume work The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet , which deals with the résumés of 753 convicts, piqued the interest of Australians in their family history. This also made them aware that their origin is essentially determined by the convicts arriving at the time.

Honors

In 1965 she was honored with the President's Medal of the University of Western Ontario for her three-part study of the British-Canadian Massey Ferguson industrial family .

She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Sydney on April 13, 1995 for all of her work .

She was also awarded the Order of Australia on January 26, 1995 .

plant

  • Star of Death (1960)
  • The Masseys: Founding Family (1965)
  • The Prince and His Lady (1970)
  • The Wheel of Things: A Biography of LM Montgomery (1975)
  • Royal Duke: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843) (1976)
  • The search for John Small, First Fleeter (1985)
  • The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet (1989)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Honorary awards. Kathleen Mollie Gillen on sydney.edu.au. Retrieved March 20, 2016
  2. ↑ Mary Beth Cavert, Carolyn Strom Collins: Honoring the First Generation of LM Montgomery Preservationists , at Immontgomeryliterarysociety.com. Retrieved March 20, 2016
  3. ↑ Yuka Kajihara: In Celebration of Mollie Gillen's 90th Birthday . on cd.avonlea.hu. Retrieved March 20, 2016
  4. ↑ Mollie Gillen on itsanhonour.gov.au. Retrieved March 20, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Gillen, Mollie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kathleen, Mollie; Woolnough, Mollie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney , New South Wales
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2009
Place of death Toronto , Quebec , Canada