Mary Gaunt

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Mary Gaunt


Born
in Melbourne, Australia
February 20, 1861

Died
January 19, 1942

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Mary Eliza Bakewell Gaunt (20 February 1861 - 19 January 1942) was an Australian novelist.

Mary was the eldest daughter of William Henry Gaunt, a Victorian county court judge, and was born in Chiltern, Victoria. She was educated at Grenville College, Ballarat and the University of Melbourne, being one of the first two women students to enroll there. She began writing for the press and in 1894 published her first novel Dave's Sweetheart. In the same year she married Dr Hubert Lindsay Miller (a widower) of Warrnambool, Victoria. He died in 1900, and, with only a small income, Gaunt (now also known as Mrs Mary Miller) went to London intending to earn a living by her writing. Gaunt left Melbourne on 15 March 1901.

Gaunt had difficulties at first
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Average rating: 3.88 · 34 ratings · 9 reviews · 58 distinct works
Kirkham's Find

3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1897 — 15 editions
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The Moving Finger

3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007 — 40 editions
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Dave's Sweetheart

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions
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The Doctor's Drive

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013
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The Moving Finger / A Trott...

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A Woman in China

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A Wind from The Wilderness

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1919 — 2 editions
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Deadman's

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Joan of the Pilchard

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A Broken Journey, Wandering...

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“It was lucky he was young and active, for the horses were more
impatient than ever now, and the driver, with a quite unnecessary
crack of his whip, gave them their heads.”
Mary Gaunt, The Doctor's Drive

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