Cato, Nancy
Variant namesNovelist.
From the description of Nancy Cato manuscript collection, 1967-1992. 1967-1992. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 224823488
From the description of Nancy Cato manuscript collection. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 220420001
Nancy Fotheringham Cato was born 1917 in Adelaide and educated at the University of Adelaide. A poet and novelist, now living in Queensland, she has also been a journalist and art critic. She was a foundation member of the Lyrebird writers, 1949. She married Eldred de B. Norman, a grandson of Daniel Matthews. Daniel Matthews, 1837-1902 was born in Cornwall and migrated to Australia 1853. In 1874 he founded the Maloga Mission for the Aborigines of Australia. He married Janet Johnston, 1848-1939. She was born in Yorkshire, but migrated to Australia in 1853.
From the description of Mister Maloga : Daniel Matthews and his mission, Murray River, 1864-1902. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225818625
Author and poet. Former vice president of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, S.A.; Council member of Australian Society of Authors since 1964. Publications include: poetry - "The darkened window" (1950), "The dancing bough" (1957); novels - "All the rivers run" (1958), "Time flow softly" (1959), "Green grows the vine" (1960), "North-west by south" (1965), "Brown sugar" (1974); short stories - "The sea ants" (1964).
From the description of Papers. 1939-1995. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 220236295
Nancy Cato was born in Adelaide. She was a cadet journalist and art critic on the "Adelaide news" until the late 1950s, when she became a freelance writer. She edited the "Jindyworobak Anthology" (1950), and was actively involved in the Fellowship of Australian Writers and the Australian Society of Authors during the 1950s to the 1960s. Her novels include "All the rivers run", "Green grows the vine", and "Brown sugar". Nancy Cato also published other prose works, two volumes of poetry and contributed to Australian literary magazines.
From the description of Papers. 1934-[198-?] (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 223093206
From the description of Papers, 1934-[198-?]. 1934-[198-?] (The University of Queensland Library). WorldCat record id: 45754604
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associatedWith | Aboriginal Treaty Committee (A.C.T.) | corporateBody |
correspondedWith | Brown, Amy | person |
associatedWith | Cato, Nancy, 1917- | person |
associatedWith | Cato, Nancy, 1917-200 | person |
associatedWith | Cato, Nancy, 1917-200 | person |
associatedWith | Lindsay, H. A. (Harold Arthur), 1900-1969. | person |
associatedWith | Maloga Mission (N.S.W.) | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Matthews, Daniel, 1837-1902 | person |
associatedWith | Rae-Ellis, Vivienne. | person |
associatedWith | Victorian Aboriginal Group. | corporateBody |
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Birth 1917-03-11
Death 2000-07-03
Australians
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