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Agnes L. Storrie

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Storrie was an associate member of the Glenelg Literary Association. Her poem "What the overseer told me" was award second prize by the South Australian’s Literary Societies' Union in September 1887. In the same competition her "Grapes From a Thorn" won first prize for a novelette and was
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as Australia’s national flower and raise patriotic feeling. She was appointed honorary secretary at the inaugural meeting on 30 August. Storrie resigned from that position in 1919, having promoted the concept in London as well as across Australia.
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critic said "all express deep feeling, and show an exalted view of the poet's calling". A review published in 1912 said that "Agnes L. Storrie has a wonderful knowledge of our own country, and the lonesome out-back."
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On 10 July 1890 Storrie married John Wilson Kettlewell at the Congregational Church in Glenelg. Following her marriage she moved to Sydney, home of her husband.
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Storrie died on 20 August 1936. The following day her funeral left her residence at 16 Point Road, Woolwich for the
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In 1909 Storrie was one of the founders of the Wattle Day League, along with the NSW Government Botanist,
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aged 19. Her husband, a retired publishers' representative, predeceased her on 22 February 1933.
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in 1922. She said that Storrie's "poems in a mystic vein are as musical as an infant's lullaby".
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on 23 August 1864. She was the third daughter of James and Agnes Storrie (née Tassie).
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Two of her poems, "Twenty Gallons of Sleep" and "A Confession", were included in
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Tourist guide to China, Japan, islands and ports en route, Australia and Tasmania
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Storrie's only son, John Bryan Kettlewell, died on 11 February 1922 at
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referred to it as a "small volume of pretty verse", while the
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South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889)
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and Hannah E. Clunies-Ross. The movement sought to celebrate
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900)
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900)
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Sydney Stock and Station Journal (NSW : 1896 - 1924)
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wrote an article, "Australian Women of Note", for the
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Storrie" 538:"Our Book Column" 256:Wattle Day League 192:Adelaide Observer 143:Wattle Day League 136: 135: 906: 838: 837: 835: 833: 818: 812: 811: 809: 807: 796:"Family Notices" 792: 786: 785: 783: 781: 766: 760: 759: 757: 755: 744:"Family Notices" 740: 734: 733: 731: 729: 718:"Family Notices" 714: 708: 707: 705: 703: 688: 682: 681: 679: 677: 662: 656: 655: 653: 651: 636: 630: 629: 627: 625: 610: 604: 603: 601: 599: 584: 578: 577: 576: 574: 560: 554: 553: 551: 549: 534: 528: 527: 525: 523: 508: 502: 501: 499: 497: 482: 476: 475: 474: 472: 458: 452: 451: 449: 447: 432: 426: 425: 423: 421: 410:"Family Notices" 406: 400: 399: 397: 395: 380: 374: 373: 371: 369: 354: 348: 347: 345: 343: 332:"Family Notices" 328: 322: 321: 319: 317: 302: 177:Life and writing 147:Agnes L. Storrie 71: 54: 52: 35: 25:Agnes L. 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Index

Storrie in 1916
Glenelg
Woolwich
Poems
Wattle Day League
Glenelg, South Australia
Adelaide Observer
Poems
The Sydney Morning Herald
Adelaide Advertiser's
Bertram Stevens
Angus & Robertson
Marion Miller Knowles
Joseph Maiden
Wattle Day
Griffith, New South Wales
Northern Suburbs Crematorium
"Agnes L. Storrie"
"Family Notices"
"Literary Competition"
"The Story-Teller"
"Family Notices"
"South Australian Social Items"
Poems
"Palmistry"
"Australian Verse"
"Our Book Column"
The Eastern and Australian Steamship Co., Ltd. : tourist guide to China, Japan, islands and ports en route, Australia and Tasmania
"Personal Pars"
"Australian Women of Note: "Advance Australia""

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