![]() Spent childhood in Fiji and Australia (first in Launceston, Tasmania, and later in Melbourne, Victoria) at age 21, went to South Gippsland to governess (1904) father committed suicide (1907) made her first visit to London as a journalist (1908) returned to London (1912), where she wrote her first prizewinning novel, The Pioneers, which won the Hodder and Stoughton All-Empire novel competition, enabling her to return to Australia as a radical writer of some promise published second novel, Windlestraws (1916) brother Alan killed on the battlefields of northern France (1917) moved with new husband to Perth, Western Australia, to the hillside suburb of Greenmount (1919) published novels Working Bullocks, Coonardoo, and Haxby's Circus (1920s) was a founding member of the Communist Party of Australia (early 1920s) went to Russia (1933) and, while she was gone, Hugo Throssell committed suicide returning to Australia, threw herself into political work, becoming a founder member of the Movement against War and Fascism at outbreak of Spanish Civil War, organized the Spanish Relief Committee in Western Australia became a member of the Communist Party's Central Committee (1943) awarded the World Council's Silver Medallion for services to peace (1959) on her death (1969), aged 86, her coffin was draped with the Red Flag and she was given a Communist funeral. Born on December 4, 1883, in Fiji died in 1969 in Perth, Western Australia daughter of Tom Prichard (a journalist) and Edith Isabel Fraser (a painter) attended South Melbourne College married Hugo Throssell, in 1919 children: Ric Throssell (b. Author, pacifist, and founder member of the Communist Party of Australia, as one of Australia's foremost writers, whose initiatives made a profound impact upon the lives of many West Australians.
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