Tarella quin biography married

In May , at the age of twenty-one, Katharine Susannah Prichard set out to work for six months as a governess for the Quin family at the Tarella Station in far-western New South Wales. Years later, some people were perplexed by Katharine marrying Hugo Throssell, an outdoorsman who cared about horses rather than books. But with his physicality and love of horses, Alfred Quin was the prototype for Hugo and showed the sort of man she was often drawn to.

Tarella Quin or Quinn (–), was an Australian children's author and novelist.

It was also the longest she ever spent in the back-country which would inspire so much of her work. I managed to find this photo of the Quins in a booklet written about Tarella Quin by some antiquarian Australiana booksellers. Redbeard does look rather debonair. And Tarella suitably writerly. October 26, at am. Thanks for the link. I wrote that Tarella and KSP sat down at the same dining table, but I think now that Tarella was already married and so had a table of her own.

Ella married T. M. Daskein, one of the proprietors of Morden Station in far northwest NSW. Author's name incorrectly spelled as 'Quinn' by Miller and Macartney in ().

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