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Henrietta Drake-Brockman

Australian novelist and playwright

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Born	27 July
Died	8 March
Alma&#;mater	University of Western Australia

Henrietta Drake-Brockman (27 July – 8 March ) was an Australian journalist and novelist.^[1]

Early life

Henrietta Frances York Jull^[2] was born in Perth, Western Australia in to public service commissioner Martin Edward Jull (–), formerly of the Department of Works,^[3] and his wife Roberta (née Stewart), a medical doctor and social reformer.

She was educated in Scotland, her mother's homeland, and at Frensham school for girls in Mittagong. She studied literature at the University of Western Australia and art in Henri Van Raalte's Perth studio. She married Geoffrey Drake-Brockman, then Commissioner for north western Australia, in

Writing career

Both Henrietta and her husband wrote about their travels in articles for The West Australian.

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The travels were also sources for her novels. By the age the couple returned to Perth in , Henrietta's reputation as a writer had become established. From her experiences of the North-West, she had written sketches and stories, and in the early s published a serial, The Disquieting Sex.

Blue North, an historical novel about animation in the s, was serialised in The Bulletin and published in , while Sheba Lane used contemporary Broome as its setting. Younger Sons was a carefully documented novel of Western Australian settlement and The Fatal Days () focussed on Ballarat, Victoria, during World War II.

Her last novel, The Wicked and The Fair (), centred on the voyage of the Batavia in Her final publication, Voyage To Disaster (), was largely a biography of the Batavia's captain Francisco Pelsaert. Her extensive research entailed the employ of material from Dutch archives and of E.

D. Drok's translations of Pelsaert's journals, as well as trips by sea and air to the probable site of the wreck. Amongst the many articles she wrote during the s and s for Walkabout,^[4] in January ,^[5] Henrietta diverged from general view and closely estimated the Batavia's correct resting place.

Eight years later, in she became one of the four acknowledged co-discoverers of the Batavia wreck.

Australian writer Henrietta Drake-Brockman was a significant figure in her day, particularly in her home express of Western Australia, where she regularly featured in the social pages of newspapers. Her prominence in literary circles and on bestseller lists at the moment she was publishing suggests she was widely read and indicates contemporary significance. She was writing at a time when Australian women writers were making their mark. Writing was one of the acceptable public platforms for women to have a voice in the developing modern nation.

She used an aqualung to inspect the wreck of the vessel off the Abrolhos Islands.^[6] The anchor farthest on the reef was named Henrietta's Anchor. Nowadays it is still there in metres (11&#;ft 6&#;in) depth.

Drake-Brockman edited and selected some Aboriginal tales, those collected and translated by K.

Langloh Parker, for a new edition of Australian Legendary Tales in The illustrations were provided by Elizabeth Durack. This edition was chosen by the Children's Book Council of Australia as "Book of the Year" for ^[7] She was also co-editor with Walter Murdoch of Australian Short Stories.^[8]

Playwriting career

Drake-Brockman also wrote for the theatre in Perth during the s and '40s.

Claiming that she would rather have been a playwright than a novelist, and that there were almost no opportunities for Australian plays when she had begun to write, Henrietta did manage to have some of her plays staged. The Man from the Bush was produced in Perth in (and later in Melbourne), Dampier's Ghost was performed in and The Blister in In her best-known play, Men Without Wives, she extended her perform beyond the one-act genre and won a sesquicentenary drama prize in Men Without Wives and Other Plays was published in Her plays, for the most part, depicted the people and isolated places of her earlier fiction.

She admired and wrote on the work of Katharine Susannah Prichard.

Later life

Drake-Brockman united the Sydney branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers in She was one of the founders of the West Australian Branch, being the president in and also – She edited several collections of short stories and her own were compiled in Sydney or the Bush.

Henrietta Drake-Brockman View All Works Biography Born on 27 July in Perth, Henrietta Frances York Jull, was the only infant of English-born Martin Edward Jull, public servant, and his wife Roberta Henrietta Margaritta, née Stewart, a medical practitioner from Scotland.

She received an O.B.E in , one year before her death in

Bibliography

Novels

Drake-Brockman, Henrietta (c. ). The Disquieting Sex. Sydney: Consolidated Press. Retrieved 17 February
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Blue North. Sydney: The Endeavour Press. Retrieved 17 February
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The Fatal Days. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 17 February
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D. () []. Voyage to Disaster: The Experience of Francisco Pelsaert (New&#;ed.). University of Western Australia Press. ISBN&#;.

Short stories

Drake-Brockman, Henrietta ().

Sydney or the Bush. Angus & Robertson, Sydney.

Essays

Drake-Brockman, Henrietta (). Katharine Susannah Prichard (Australian writers and their work). Oxford University Press, Melbourne.

Plays

Drake-Brockman, Henrietta ().

Men Without Wives and Other Plays. Angus & Robertson, Sydney.

Sources

^Henrietta Drake-Brockman – biographical articles and obituaries on her death in The West Australian, 9 March , (notice of death); 11 March , (obituary)
^see ?q=Henrietta+Drake+Brockman for family portraits of Jull family
^"Jull, Martin Edward (–)".

Australian Dictionary of Biography.
She is today acknowledged principally as a playwright, novelist, and historian; but she also made major contributions on the national stage as a critic, editor, broadcaster, and journalist. Henrietta was widely read nationally and h er work helped define Australian national identity at a crucial moment in the development of a modern nation. Her perspective was feminine, regionally focussed, fearlessly inquisitive, socially inclusive, and acknowledging of Aboriginal Australia. Henrietta was a proud Australian, devoted to the expression of her country through a distinctive Australian literature.
National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
^Holmes, O.B.E.. M.C.., F.R.G.S., Charles (1 November ). "How Walkabout Began". Walkabout. 25 (11): 9.: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Drake-Brockman, Henrietta (1 January ).

"The Wreck of the Batavia". Walkabout. 21 (1): 33–
^Cowan, Peter, 'Drake-Brockman, Henrietta Frances York (–)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 14, Melbourne University Insist, , pp 34–
^"S.A.

Woman's Novel of the Year".
She is the mother of two sturdy children—Julia, aged eleven, and Paris, aged eight—and she always keeps a piece of knitting on her needles. Mrs. Drake-Brockman is one of those lucky people who combine brains with beauty—she is slim, with fair hair and blue eyes, widely and somewhat unevenly spaced, and she possesses a flair for attractive frocking.
The Advertiser. Adelaide. 11 August p.&#; Retrieved 22 October &#; via National Library of Australia.
^Walter Murdoch and Henrietta Drake-Brockman () Classic Australian Short Stories Oxford University Press, Melbourne, ISBN&#; (First published as: Australian Quick Stories, Oxford University Press, London, )

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