Dorothea Mackellar

Dorothea Mackellar
OBE
Dorothea Mackellar, 1927, by May Moore
Born
Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar

(1885-07-01)1 July 1885
Dunara, Point Piper, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died14 January 1968(1968-01-14) (aged 82)
Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales
Resting place
Waverley Cemetery
OccupationPoet
RelativesSir Charles Mackellar (father)
Writing career
GenresPoetry
Notable work"My Country"
Dunara, Mackellar's childhood home in Point Piper
Dorothea Mackellar, Australian poet

Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar OBE (1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968) was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem "My Country" is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains, / Of ragged mountain ranges, / Of droughts and flooding rains."

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