Henrietta drake brockman biography of rory mcilroy

The family lived at Brookside orchard and vineyard near Armadale; in Henrietta was in Scotland with her mother. She was sixteen in when her father died prematurely and her plans to study art in Paris were abandoned. On 2 August at Guildford, she married Geoffrey Drake-Brockman, engineer, soldier and twenty-four years her senior. The couple settled at Broome and Drake-Brockman turned her creative talents to the written word.

Blue North , Sheba Lane and in her sesquicentenary prize-winning play, Men without Wives.

Henrietta Drake-Brockman, by Robert Hofmann, c National Library of Australia, -anMissing: rory mcilroy.

Characters, caught in nets of comedy or pathos, are inexorably pitted against a dominant environment. Yet her writing seldom lacks a social dimension, nor is it free of value judgment. It demanded extensive archival research at home and in Holland, work with translator E. Drok, and aerial and underwater aged fifty-nine, in an aqua-lung!

Tall, elegant, forthright, her seemingly imperious manner belying an innate shyness, Drake-Brockman was extolled by her peers.

Henrietta Drake-Brockman (27 July – 8 March ) was an Australian journalist and novelist.

She died suddenly in Perth on 8 March , survived by her husband, son and daughter. Design and Art Australia Online database and e-research tool for art and design researchers. Data Out. Events Visualisation. Data In. Login Create Account Help.