Jessie Urquhart
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Jessie Urquhart | |
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 Jessie Urquhart in 1932 | |
| Born | 1890 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 12 April 1948 (aged 57–58) St John's Wood, London, England |
| Occupation | novelist, journalist, short-story writer |
Jessie Urquhart (1890 – 12 April 1948) was an Australian journalist, novelist and short-story writer.
Career
As well as writing three novels, Urquhart wrote stories for The School Magazine published by the NSW Department of Education for primary school students, some of which had appeared previously in The Sydney Morning Herald.[3] She also contributed short stories to The Australian Woman's Mirror, The Bulletin and The Australian Women's Weekly.[4] During her years in England she reported on the London literary scene.
Urquhart was a member of the Society of Women Writers and acted as secretary from 1932 until her departure for England in 1934.[5][6]
In 1935, Zora Cross wrote of Urquhart that "she will not, I think, do her best work until, like Alice Grant Rosman, she relinquishes journalism for fiction".[7]