About Tarella Quin
Lived 1877 – 1934 (aged 56–57). Tarella Quin was a children's writer and novelist.
Tarella Quin (1877 – 22 October 1945),
Tarella Quin, daughter of Edith Quin (née Dollman) and pastoralist and politician Edward Quin, was born in 1877 on a property near Wilcannia, New South Wales. She was educated in Adelaide at Miss Thornber's school in Unley Park.
Several of her books were illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.
Works
Gum Tree Brownie and Other Faerie Folk of the Never Never, 1907 Freckles, 1910 Before the Lamps are Lit, 1911 A Desert Rose, 1912 Kerno: A Stone, 1914 Paying Guests, 1917 The Other Side of Nowhere, 1934 Chimney Town, 1934
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Australian children's author and novelist
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Tarella Quin was a children's writer and novelist.
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