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Gaunt, Mary (1861 - 1942)

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Born
20 February 1861
Chiltern, Victoria, Australia
Died
19 January 1942
Cannes, France

Summary

Gaunt was born at Chiltern, Victoria. In 1880 she became one of the first women to attend the University of Melbourne, leaving after only a year to pursue her writing. Some of her earliest short stories and articles appeared in Cassel's Picturesque Australasia in the late 1880s. Her first novel, Bingley's Gap: A Tale of Old Colonial Days, was published serially in the Leader in 1888. In 1894 she married Dr Hubert Lindsay Miller, and they settled in Warrnambool, Victoria. She continued to publish under her own name throughout the marriage and, after Miller's death in 1900, moved to England, supporting herself as a writer. Gaunt's growing success funded her extensive travel in Europe, Jamaica, Africa and China. Her adventures provided settings for her fiction and she also wrote a number of autobiographical travel books, including Alone in West Africa (1912) and A Woman in China (1914). Several of her many novels are set in Australia, most significantly Kirkham's Find (1897) and Deadman's (1898), which were both published in Methuen's Colonial Library series.

Published resources

Books

  • Gaunt, Mary, The surrender and other happenings, Werner Laurie, London, 263 pp. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, Dave's Sweetheart, Melville, Mullen and Slade, Melbourne, 1894, 264 pp. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, The moving finger, Methuen, London, 1895, 304 pp. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, Deadman's, Methuen, London, 1898, 304 pp. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, The Ends of the Earth, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1916, 237 pp. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, As the whirlwind passeth, Murray, London, 1923, 314 pp. Details

Short Stories

  • Gaunt, Mary, 'The Dire Peril of Sergeant Sells', in The Ends of the Earth, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1916, pp. 137-150. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, 'The Doctor's Drive', in The Ends of the Earth, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1916, pp. 1-10. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, 'The Ways of God', in The Ends of the Earth, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1916, pp. 11-24. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, 'When the Colt Jammed', in The Ends of the Earth, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1916, pp. 25-34. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, 'The First Australian Love Story', in The Ends of the Earth, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1916, pp. 35-48. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, 'The Humbling of Sargeant Mahone', in The Ends of the Earth, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1916, pp. 49-60. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, 'The Cost of the Boat', in The Ends of the Earth, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1916, pp. 61-74. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, 'Peter Addie and the Ju-Ju', in The Ends of the Earth, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1916, pp. 75-90. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, 'A Dilemma', in The Ends of the Earth, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1916, pp. 91-98. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, 'Roger Black, Scallawag', in The Ends of the Earth, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1916, pp. 113-136. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, 'A Good Samaritan', in The Ends of the Earth, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1916, pp. 151-158. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, 'The Mate's Salvage', in The Ends of the Earth, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1916, pp. 159-176. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, 'The Woman Who Did Not Care', in The Ends of the Earth, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1916, pp. 177-208. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, 'The Lost White Woman', in The Ends of the Earth, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1916, pp. 209-218. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, '"North of 53°"', in The Ends of the Earth, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1916, pp. 219-237. Details
  • Gaunt, Mary, 'Sweetbriar in the Desert', in The Ends of the Earth, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1916, pp. 99-112. Details

See also

Rachael Weaver

Created: 19 July 2007, Last modified: 10 June 2015