Dorothea Mackellar

Dorothea Mackellar

OBE
Dorothea Mackellar, 1927, by May Moore
Born
Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar

(1885-07-01)1 July 1885
Dunara, Point Piper, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died14 January 1968(1968-01-14) (aged 82)
Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales
Resting placeWaverley Cemetery
OccupationPoet
NationalityAustralian
GenresPoetry
Notable works"My Country"
RelativesSir Charles Mackellar (father)

Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar OBE (1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968) 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 flooding rains."

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