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She was born the daughter of a clergyman and spent the early years of her childhood in Queensland before moving with her family to Melbourne in 1888.
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She was born the daughter of a clergyman and spent the early years of her childhood in Queensland before moving with her family to Melbourne in 1888.
Locke began publishing short stories in such publications as The Bulletin and the Native Companion before her first play, The Vicissitudes of Vivienne, was produced in 1908. This was followed the next year by a Sydney production of A Martyr to Principle. She was later described by a Sydney newspaper as being "the first woman dramatist to have a play produced in Australia by a commercial theatrical management".
The writer"s reputation was enhanced by the publication in 1911 of Mum Dawson, "Boss", a series of inter-connected stories about a back-blocks country woman struggling to maintain her farm and her family.
The Examiner described it as having "a strong vein of genuine humour". This was followed a year later by its sequel The Dawsons" Uncle George.
lieutenant received favourable reviews there, and "enjoyed a remarkable success." He was posted to the front some two weeks later. She returned to Australia and gave birth to a son, Sumner Locke Elliott, on 17 October 1917.
A day later she died from complications arising from the birth.
On her death The Leader newspaper described her as "a woman of great vitality and animation, a tireless worker, with much charm of manner and an abundance of humor." The Vicissitudes of Vivienne (1908) A Martyr to Principle (1909) Mum Dawson, Boss (1917).
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