Record ID:
36574881 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
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Birth:
  • Exeter, England
Lived/located in:
  • Tasmania
Used for:
  • Woolmer Leakey, Caroline, 1827-1881
  • Leakey, Caroline Woolmer, 1827-1881
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Notes:
  • Caroline Leakey sailed to Van Diemen's Land in 1847. There she wrote poetry and began preparations to have them published, encouraged by Bishop Nixon. Her collection, 'Lyra Australis, or attempts to sing in a strange land' was eventually published in 1854 under her own name, after she returned to England in 1853. She began writing a novel in 1857, 'Broad arrow, being passages from the history of Maida Gwynnham', which was published in 2 vols in London in 1859, and Hobart in 1860, under the pseudonym of Oliné Keese.
  • ADB online, viewed 16 April 2018:|b(Caroline Woolmer Leakey (1827-1881), author, was born on 8 March 1827 at Exeter, England; in 1847 she sailed to Van Diemen's Land to help her sister Eliza, wife of Rev. James Gould Medland, who had migrated with his family to Hobart Town in 1844. In March 1857 Caroline began writing a novel; under the name of Oliné Keese it was published in two volumes as The Broad Arrow; Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer (London, 1859; Hobart, 1860). After an illness of eighteen months she died on 12 July 1881.) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/leakey-caroline-woolmer-4001
Local system number:
  • 000001583154
  • abv03101560
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda TSL
Authentication code:
  • kin anuc