Myrtle Rose White
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30 August 1888
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Port Hedland, Western Australia
Myrtle Rose White | |
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 Signed photograph of Myrtle Rose White (undated) | |
| Born | Myrtle Rose Kennewell 30 August 1888 Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 11 July 1961 (aged 72) Port Hedland, Western Australia |
| Notable works | No Roads Go By |
Myrtle Rose White (1888–1961) was an Australian novelist. She is best known for No Roads Go By, a work of autobiographical fiction.[1][2]
Myrtle Rose White was the third child of Dina Ann (née Adams) and miner Mark Albert Kennewell. She was born in a tent near Broken Hill, New South Wales on 30 August 1888.[1] She grew up in South Australia's Barossa Valley.[3] Her education was sporadic before she attended a private school in Williamstown, South Australia.[1]
Following her marriage in 1910 to Cornelius White, known as Con, the couple moved to Lake Elder in South Australia, where he managed a rural property. This later served as the setting for her first book,[3] which was favourably compared with Mrs Aeneas Gunn's We of the Never Never.[4] Originally published in 1932, a new edition was released by Angus & Robertson in 1954, incorporating illustrations by Elizabeth Durack.[5]
