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Jennings Carmichael

Jennings Carmichael (24 February 1867 – 9 February 1904) was an Australian poet and nurse.

Life

Grace Elizabeth Jennings Carmichael was born on 24 February 1867 at Ballarat, Victoria. The daughter of Archibald Carmichael, a miner from Perthshire, Scotland and Margaret Jennings, née Clark, from Cornwall.

Carmichael joined the Buonarottii Club before 1887, and was a member of the Austral Salon in the 1890s giving a public lecture on "The Spirit of the Bush" in September 1895 at the Masonic Hall in Melbourne with Alfred Deakin as chairman.

Works

  • Hospital Children : sketches of life and character in the Children's Hospital, Melbourne (1891)
  • Poems (1895)
  • For Some One's Sake (1955)

Personal life

Carmichael married Henry Francis Mullis on 1 April 1895 in Fitzroy. Carmichael had four sons and a daughter.

References

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