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DEATH OF JENNINGS
CARMICHAEL.
Our readers will join with us in deeply
regretting the death, reported by our London
correspondent, of Mrs. Mullis, well
known as a contributor to- "The Australasian
under her maiden name, Jennings
Carmichael. She died of pneumonia on
February 9, at Leyton, near London, at the
age of 36 years, leaving a husband and five
children. Miss Carmichaels stepfather was
manager of a station near Orbost, in Gipps'land
and it was from there that she began
sending us verses, which from the first were
marked by deep feeling and much power
of poetical expression. She afterwards
came to Melbourne, went through a course
of training as a nurse in a private hospital,
and was for some time in the Children's Hospital
. She wrote for "The Australasian" a
series of sketches of this institution, which
were re-issued in book form. Miss
Carmichael married Mr. Mullis, and went
with him to Western Australia, and
then to Northampton, England, where his
family resided. Mrs. Mullis continued her
contributions to our columns until recently.
She wrote stories, as well as verse,
but her talent was most conspicuous
in her poems, which showed not
only a complete command of rhythm, metre,
and language, but thought and feeling that
stamped her as something more than a
.
writer of graceful verse.
Personally Mrs Mullis was held in high esteem by a large
circle of friends, who will receive the news
of her premature death with much
sorrow.
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