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Dorothy
McCrae was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria in
1879 and died in Sydney in 1937. She was the daughter of the 19th century
Melbourne author and literary figure George Gordon McCrae. She was educated in
Melbourne at Rolyat school, Hawthorn (where one of her teachers was Jeannie
Taylor, the later Mrs Aeneas Gunn) and then Ruyton school, Kew. In 1907 she
married Church of England clergyman, Rev. Charles Elliott Perry, with whom she
subsequently had four children. In 1916 McCrae and her husband left Australia
for Christchurch, New Zealand, where they lived for almost 20 years. During
this period McCrae made only occasional visits to Australia. In 1936 she and
her husband returned to live in Sydney, however, both died soon afterwards.
Over the years McCrae's poems appeared at intervals in a
number of newspapers and magazines, both in Australia and New Zealand. During
World War I she became well known in Australia for her patriotic selections Soldier,
My Soldier! (1914) and The Clear Call (1915).
One of McCrae's brothers, Geoffrey Gordon McCrae, was
killed at Fromelles in 1916. Another brother, Hugh McCrae, was a well-known
20th century Australian author and literary figure. Her grandmother was the
19th century artist and diarist Georgina Huntley McCrae,
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