Mavis Thorpe Clark (1909–1999)
Author of The Min-Min
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Also known as Mavis Rose Latham (maiden name) and M.R.Clark (pen name).
Works by Mavis Thorpe Clark
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- Legal name
- Latham, Mavis Rose (married name)
- Other names
- Clark, M. R.
Clark, Thorpe (pseudonym) - Birthdate
- 1909-06-26
- Date of death
- 1999-07-08
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Methodist Ladies’ College, Melbourne
- Occupations
- novelist
- Short biography
- Mavis Thorpe Clark, born in Melbourne, Australia, began writing as a child. She published her first story for children in The Australasian newspaper at age 14. She wrote her first full-length children's novel at age 18 and published it a few years later in 1930.
In 1932, she married Harold Latham, with whom she had two daughters. She became a prolific writer, mainly for children and teenagers, but she also produced biographies, other nonfiction works, and many articles, short stories, and scripts for newspaper, magazines, and radio.
Mavis Thorpe Clark loved the Australian outback. During the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s she traveled extensively in South Australia and Western Australia gathering material for her work.
In 1967, she won the Children's Book Council of the Year award for The Min-Min, which was set in the South Australia outback. - Nationality
- Australia
- Birthplace
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Places of residence
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Place of death
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Disambiguation notice
- Also known as Mavis Rose Latham (maiden name) and M.R.Clark (pen name).
- Associated Place (for map)
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Thorpe, Clark Mavis. The twins from Timber Creek. Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press (1949,) Hardback. The story starts quite well, introducing Elizabeth May whose mother prefers to call her daughter Elizabeth rather than Liz or Lizzie.Okay, I accept that but why then choose by line 20 of the first page a totally unsuitable name. 'His dog [Pete's], Nigger' ...and it all goes pear shaped there. This was 1949.
This biography provides references to the football career of prominent Aboriginal leader Doug Nicholls in three chapters titled ‘Doug Makes the Team’, (pp. 51-56), ‘The Flying Abo’(pp. 56-67) and ‘Change of Course’ (pp. 74-83). Nicholls played for Northcote in the VFA and then briefly for Fitzroy in the 1930s. One of the more interesting stories in the book is Nicholls’ account of the kindness and respect shown to him by legendary player Haydn Bunton, which was apparently in show more contrast to other team mates at Fitzroy and previously Carlton. show less
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Illustrated by Genevieve Melrose
Landsdown Press
380 Bourke Street Melbourne Vic
Australia
First published 1966
Printed at the Griffin Press, Marion Rd, Netley, South Australia
“Gulla Tank is an imaginary out-station and all characters in the book are fictional.”
Hardcover 206 pages
Illustrated by Genevieve Melrose
Landsdown Press
380 Bourke Street Melbourne Vic
Australia
First published 1966
Printed at the Griffin Press, Marion Rd, Netley, South Australia
“Gulla Tank is an imaginary out-station and all characters in the book are fictional.”
Hardcover 206 pages
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