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Description: Dame Mary Jane Gilmore, 1927. Poet, author and journalist, Mary Jane Cameron was born at Cottawalla, Goulburn, NSW on 16 August 1865. She attended Wagga Wagga, New South Wales school and became a pupil-teacher. The first women member of the Australian Workers' Union, she joined the New Australia venture in Paraguay in 1895 and married William Gilmore in 1897. She died on 3 December 1962 and was given a State funeral by the New South Wales and Australian governments. (Description supplied with photograph).
Title: StateLibQld 1 100448
Credit: Item is held by John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.
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