How leftist, feminist poet Dame Mary Gilmore became 'Aunt Mary' in the PM's political narrative
- Written by: Dr Toby Davidson, Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Macquarie University
Wikimedia Commons and AAP/EPA/Erik S. LesserDame Mary Gilmore died at 97 in late 1962, two and a half years before the birth of her great-great nephew, Scott John Morrison.
Gilmore was a prolific writer – her collected verse contains 1,437 pages of poetry. She also had a background in radical leftist politics and shared a close friendship...