Ruth Park
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Rosina Ruth Lucia Park AM was a New Zealand–born Australian author. Her best known works are the novels The Harp in the South and Playing Beatie Bow, and the children's radio serial The Muddle-Headed
Ruth Park, c. 1942
D'Arcy Niland
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D'Arcy Francis Niland was an Australian farm labourer, novelist and short story writer. In 1955 he wrote The Shiralee, which gained international recognition in its depictions of the experiences of a
Ruth Park
…she moved to Sydney, Australia, in 1942, where she had lined up a job with another newspaper. That same year she married the budding Australian author D'Arcy Niland (1917–1967), with whom she had been corresponding as pen pals for some years, and whom she had finally met on a previous visit to Sydney. There she…
D'Arcy Niland July 1947