Bruce, Mary Grant, 1878-1958.

Norah of Billabong / Mary Grant Bruce. (London : Ward Lock, [195-])

Born in Sale, Victoria, in 1878, Mary (Minnie) Grant Bruce began her career as a journalist on the staff of the Melbourne Age and the Leader, where her early Billabong books first appeared. She married her second cousin, Major George Evans Bruce, in Melbourne 1914, after meeting him on a visit to London. After World War I, they divided their time between Ireland and Australia. Between 1910 and 1946, Bruce wrote thirty-seven novels, a collection of Aboriginal Dreaming stories, and a fantasy.

The ‘Billabong’ stories are set on the Linton family’s sheep station located in northern Victoria. Norah is the original ‘little bush maid’. She is an outdoor girl, one of the ‘mates of Billabong’, but retains her femininity through knitting, cooking and charitable enterprises. As the series proceeds, Norah marries Jim’s best mate, Wally Meadows, and has a son, Davie.

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