Margaret Frances Carnegie AO (14 March 1910 – 5 August 2002) was an Australian writer, art patron and collector.

Biography

Margaret Frances Carnegie was born in Melbourne on 14 March 1910, daughter of Henry George Allen and Amelia Burberry.[1] She was educated at Lauriston Girls' School and then a finishing school in Switzerland.[2] She married Douglas Howard Carnegie on 11 March 1931 at Scots' Church, Melbourne.[3]

Desmond Digby's portrait of Carnegie was a finalist for the 1966 Archibald Prize. It was acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1991.[4]

The 1976 film, Mad Dog Morgan, was based on her book, Morgan: The Bold Bushranger.[5]

Carnegie was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 1985 Australia Day Honours.[6] She was promoted to Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to art, literature and to local history".[7]

Carnegie was awarded an honorary doctor of letters by Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.[8][9] The university holds the Margaret Carnegie Collection of Australiana within its archives.[10]

Carnegie died on 5 August 2002.[11] She was predeceased by her husband in 1998.[2] Her son, Roderick Carnegie, and three daughters survived her.[11]

Selected works

Books

  • Carnegie, Margaret; Hawthorn Press (1973), Friday Mount : first settlement at Holbrook and the south-western slopes of New South Wales, Hawthorn Press, ISBN 978-0-7256-0108-9
  • Carnegie, Margaret (1974), Morgan, the bold bushranger, Hawthorn Press, ISBN 978-0-7256-0109-6
  • Swan, Keith; Carnegie, Margaret (1979), In step with Sturt, Graphic Books, ISBN 978-0-9596365-5-0
  • Carnegie, Margaret; Shields, Frank (1979), In search of Breaker Morant: Balladist and bushveldt carbineer (Paperback ed.), H. H. Stephenson, ISBN 978-0-9596365-1-2
  • Carnegie, Margaret (1992), William Knox D'Arcy: Australian gold and Persian oil, Kildrummie Press, ISBN 978-0-646-07850-2
  • Carnegie, Margaret; Boldrewood, Rolf (1993), Pacific gold: California 1848 Australia 1851, including Genesis of gold-fields law in Australia, Kildrummie Press, ISBN 978-0-646-14045-2

Libretto

  • Martin, Desmond; Carnegie, Margaret; Rolfe, Douglas G (1984), Gabriel and Louisa: An Australian ballad operetta : a somewhat frivolous version of the romantic history of Gabriel Louis Marie Huon de Keriliau and his wife Louisa, during the foundation years of Australia, 1788 to 1892, A.K.P.

References

  1. ↑ Allen, Margaret Frances. "Birth certificate: 12774/1910". Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Great collector of art and teller of our tales". The Sydney Morning Herald. 9 August 2002. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. ↑ "Family Notices". The Australasian. Vol. CXXX, no. 4,288. Victoria, Australia. 14 March 1931. p. 11. Retrieved 1 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "Margaret Carnegie with orange dress and specs, 1966, To do with the blue by Desmond Digby". Art Gallery NSW. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. ↑ "BUSHRANGER DAN MORGAN STATES HIS CASE". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 43, no. 53. Australia. 2 June 1976. p. 42. Retrieved 2 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "Mrs Margaret Francis Carnegie". It's An Honour. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  7. ↑ "Mrs Margaret Frances Carnegie, OAM". It's An Honour. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  8. ↑ "Ms Margaret Frances Carnegie: Citation for the conferral of a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa)" (PDF). Charles Sturt University. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  9. ↑ "Honorary Awards". Charles Sturt University. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  10. ↑ Carnegie, Margaret; Reid-Smith, Edward R. (1996), Margaret Frances Carnegie, the writer : an examination of materials in the Carnegie Collection at the Wagga Campus Library of Charles Sturt University, Charles Sturt University, ISBN 978-1-875781-92-8
  11. 1 2 "Margaret Carnegie Obituary (2002) - Herald Sun". www.legacy.com. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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