Jeannie Taylor Gunn, was the last of five children of Thomas Johnstone Taylor, a baptist minister. Matriculating through Melbourne University after being educated at home, Jeannie ran a school with her sisters between 1889 and 1896, after which she worked as a visiting teacher.
In 1901 she married the 'explorer, pastoralist and journalist' Aeneas James Gunn, in the Prebsyterian Church. They traveled to Darwin (then called Palmerston) and then into an outlying station at Mataranka. After her husband died in 1903, Jeannie returned to live in Melbourne.
She wrote "The Little Black Princess: a True Tale of life in the Never-Never Land in 1905 and revised in 1909. it chronicled the childhood of an Indigenous Australian protagonist named Bett-Bett.
Her second book, "We of the Never Never" was published in 1908. The book was styled as a novel, but it was actually a recounting of her time in the Northern Territory with only the names of the people changed to obscure their identities.
The book sold 300,000 copies over 30-years and captured the imagination of the world.
During the First World War Gunn became active in welfare work for Australian servicemen overseas. At the end of the conflict she began campaigning for the welfare of returned servicemen, liaising with government departments and becoming a patron of the Monbulk RSL, attending every event they organised over two decades. Although she never completed another novel, she did publish further stories about the characters from her previous works. In 1939 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her writing and advocacy work.
The memoirs of her work with the RSL, My Boys: A book of remembrance, was published in 2000.
'Wikipedia'∼She was an Australian novelist, teacher and Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL) volunteer.
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This memorial id dedicated to the 'Little Missus', Jeannie Gunn, daughter of a Presbyterian minister, school teacher and authoress of 'We of the Never Never' and the 'Little Black Princess'. SHe was buried in her hometown Melbourne. WHilst never returning to Elsey Station, her thoughts always remained with her hisband Aeneas Gunn, 'The Maluka' and of the place called the 'Never Never'.
In 1901 she married the 'explorer, pastoralist and journalist' Aeneas James Gunn, in the Prebsyterian Church. They traveled to Darwin (then called Palmerston) and then into an outlying station at Mataranka. After her husband died in 1903, Jeannie returned to live in Melbourne.
She wrote "The Little Black Princess: a True Tale of life in the Never-Never Land in 1905 and revised in 1909. it chronicled the childhood of an Indigenous Australian protagonist named Bett-Bett.
Her second book, "We of the Never Never" was published in 1908. The book was styled as a novel, but it was actually a recounting of her time in the Northern Territory with only the names of the people changed to obscure their identities.
The book sold 300,000 copies over 30-years and captured the imagination of the world.
During the First World War Gunn became active in welfare work for Australian servicemen overseas. At the end of the conflict she began campaigning for the welfare of returned servicemen, liaising with government departments and becoming a patron of the Monbulk RSL, attending every event they organised over two decades. Although she never completed another novel, she did publish further stories about the characters from her previous works. In 1939 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her writing and advocacy work.
The memoirs of her work with the RSL, My Boys: A book of remembrance, was published in 2000.
'Wikipedia'∼She was an Australian novelist, teacher and Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL) volunteer.
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This memorial id dedicated to the 'Little Missus', Jeannie Gunn, daughter of a Presbyterian minister, school teacher and authoress of 'We of the Never Never' and the 'Little Black Princess'. SHe was buried in her hometown Melbourne. WHilst never returning to Elsey Station, her thoughts always remained with her hisband Aeneas Gunn, 'The Maluka' and of the place called the 'Never Never'.
Jeannie Taylor Gunn, was the last of five children of Thomas Johnstone Taylor, a baptist minister. Matriculating through Melbourne University after being educated at home, Jeannie ran a school with her sisters between 1889 and 1896, after which she worked as a visiting teacher.
In 1901 she married the 'explorer, pastoralist and journalist' Aeneas James Gunn, in the Prebsyterian Church. They traveled to Darwin (then called Palmerston) and then into an outlying station at Mataranka. After her husband died in 1903, Jeannie returned to live in Melbourne.
She wrote "The Little Black Princess: a True Tale of life in the Never-Never Land in 1905 and revised in 1909. it chronicled the childhood of an Indigenous Australian protagonist named Bett-Bett.
Her second book, "We of the Never Never" was published in 1908. The book was styled as a novel, but it was actually a recounting of her time in the Northern Territory with only the names of the people changed to obscure their identities.
The book sold 300,000 copies over 30-years and captured the imagination of the world.
During the First World War Gunn became active in welfare work for Australian servicemen overseas. At the end of the conflict she began campaigning for the welfare of returned servicemen, liaising with government departments and becoming a patron of the Monbulk RSL, attending every event they organised over two decades. Although she never completed another novel, she did publish further stories about the characters from her previous works. In 1939 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her writing and advocacy work.
The memoirs of her work with the RSL, My Boys: A book of remembrance, was published in 2000.
'Wikipedia'∼She was an Australian novelist, teacher and Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL) volunteer.
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This memorial id dedicated to the 'Little Missus', Jeannie Gunn, daughter of a Presbyterian minister, school teacher and authoress of 'We of the Never Never' and the 'Little Black Princess'. SHe was buried in her hometown Melbourne. WHilst never returning to Elsey Station, her thoughts always remained with her hisband Aeneas Gunn, 'The Maluka' and of the place called the 'Never Never'.
In 1901 she married the 'explorer, pastoralist and journalist' Aeneas James Gunn, in the Prebsyterian Church. They traveled to Darwin (then called Palmerston) and then into an outlying station at Mataranka. After her husband died in 1903, Jeannie returned to live in Melbourne.
She wrote "The Little Black Princess: a True Tale of life in the Never-Never Land in 1905 and revised in 1909. it chronicled the childhood of an Indigenous Australian protagonist named Bett-Bett.
Her second book, "We of the Never Never" was published in 1908. The book was styled as a novel, but it was actually a recounting of her time in the Northern Territory with only the names of the people changed to obscure their identities.
The book sold 300,000 copies over 30-years and captured the imagination of the world.
During the First World War Gunn became active in welfare work for Australian servicemen overseas. At the end of the conflict she began campaigning for the welfare of returned servicemen, liaising with government departments and becoming a patron of the Monbulk RSL, attending every event they organised over two decades. Although she never completed another novel, she did publish further stories about the characters from her previous works. In 1939 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her writing and advocacy work.
The memoirs of her work with the RSL, My Boys: A book of remembrance, was published in 2000.
'Wikipedia'∼She was an Australian novelist, teacher and Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL) volunteer.
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This memorial id dedicated to the 'Little Missus', Jeannie Gunn, daughter of a Presbyterian minister, school teacher and authoress of 'We of the Never Never' and the 'Little Black Princess'. SHe was buried in her hometown Melbourne. WHilst never returning to Elsey Station, her thoughts always remained with her hisband Aeneas Gunn, 'The Maluka' and of the place called the 'Never Never'.
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