Marie Louise Hamilton Mack (1870 - 1935), by Kerry & Co, 1890s, courtesy of National Library of Australia. nla.pic-an23474744. .Image Details

MACK, MARIE LOUISE HAMILTON (1870-1935) and AMY ELEANOR (1876-1939), writers, were born on 10 October 1870 in Hobart Town and on 6 June 1876 at Port Adelaide, daughters of Rev. Hans Hamilton Mack (d.1890), Wesleyan minister from Downpatrick, Ireland, and his wife Jemima (d.1930), née James, from Armagh, whom he had married in Sydney in 1859. Louise, the eldest girl in a family of thirteen, was registered as Mary Louisa. The family, moving from circuit to circuit, left South Australia in 1878, and after three years at Morpeth and Windsor, New South Wales, settled in Sydney in 1882. The sisters were educated by their mother and a governess and at the Sydney Girls' High School, where Louise and her friend Ethel Turner edited rival papers; she drew on ...

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