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Rosa Praed.

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Rosa Praed. Rosa Praed (1851 -1935) a novelist, generally know as Mrs. Campbell Praed, daughter of Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior. she was born at Bungroopin Station on the Logan River, Qld., on 27 March 1851. She was educated in Brisbane and during her childhood developed an interest in writing. In 1872 she married Arthur Campbell Mackworth Praed, and lived for a short time on Curtis Island, off Gladstone, Qld. The sojourn was turned to literary account in her first book, An Australian Heroine (1880) as well as in The Romance of a Station (1889) and her last novel Sister Sorrow (1916). Her ability to make use of her experiences in the setting or action of her novels is a noticeable feature of her writing. Her private life was one of sadness. She was early estranged from her husband, one son died in an automobile accident, another killed while big-game hunting in South Aftrica, and the third shot himself, her only daughter was a deaf mute. She herself was an exile who yearned for her native country. She died at Torquay, England, 11 April 1935.

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John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. Neg 68049.