About Mavis Thorpe Clark: Timeline
Timeline of significant events in the life of author Mavis Thorpe Clark
- 1909: Mavis Rose Clark born, the youngest of 5 children
- 1914-1918: World War 1
- 1917: Began school at Mont Albert Central School (aged 8)
- 1922: Family trip to Europe by ship visiting Scotland, Germany, France,
Belgium and England returning via the Suez Canal
- 1923: First children's serial published in Australasian (aged
14)
- 1925: Finished school - Methodist Ladies' College, Intermediate Certificate
(aged 16 and a half)
- 1927: Hatherly's
First Fifteen written (aged 18)
- 1929-1932: The Great Depression
- 1930: Hatherly's
First Fifteen published (aged 20)
- 1932: Married Harold Latham
- 1936: First child, Beverley Jeanne, born
- 1939-1945: World War 2
- 1944: Second child, Ronda Faye, born
- 1949: Dark Pool Island
published
- 1949: The Twins from
Timber Creek published
- 1950: Home Again
at Timber Creek published
- 1950: Jingaroo published
- 1951: Missing Gold published
- 1956: The Brown Land
was Green first published
- 1957: The Brown Land
was Green "Highly Commended" by the Australian Children's Book Council
- 1958: Gully of Gold
first published
- 1959: Pony from Tarella
first published
- 1959: First grandchild, Debra Jane, born
- 1960: Mavis' first visit to the north-west of South Australia with
Harold Darwin
- 1961: Winner of the Melbourne Quill Club's J.K. Moir Award
- 1962: John Batman
first published
- 1963: Mavis' second visit to the north-west of South Australia with
Harold Darwin
- 1963: They Came South
first published
- 1963: Fishing published
- 1965: Pastor Doug: The Story
of an Aboriginal Leader first published
- 1966: Mavis' third visit to the north-west of South Australia with
Harold Darwin
- 1966: The Min-Min first published
- 1967: The Min-Min awarded The Children's Book Council of Australia's "Book of the Year"
- 1967: Mavis' visit to Coober Pedy with her brother Bob
- 1967: Blue Above the
Trees first published
- 1967: Blue Above the
Trees "Commended" by The Children's Book Council of Australia
- 1968: Mavis' visit to Coober Pedy with daughter Ronda
- 1968: Spark of Opal
first published
- 1968: The Pack Tracker
published
- 1969: Blue Above the
Trees appeared on the Select List of the American Library Association
- 1969: Mavis' first visit to Western Australia with daughter Ronda
- 1969: Nowhere to Hide
published
- 1969: Opal Mining
published
- 1970: Iron Mountain
first published
- 1971: Iron Ore Mining
published
- 1971: Spark of Opal won a place on the Deutscher Jugendbuchpreis (German Children's Book Award)
- 1972: Joan and Betty Rayner:
Strolling Players published
- 1973: New Golden Mountain
first published
- 1974: The Sky is Free
first published
- 1976: Film and television rights to The Sky is Free purchased by Disney
- 1976: The Hundred Islands
first published
- 1979: The Lilly-Pilly
published
- 1979: First great-grandchild, Melissa Jane, born
- 1980: A Stranger
Came to the Mine first published
- 1980: Joey published
- 1981: Solomon's Child
first published
- 1981: Boo to a Goose
published
- 1982: The Thief Who Came Quietly
published
- 1984: Young and Brave: Stories
of Nine Steadfast Young Australians published
- 1986: No Mean Destiny: The
Story of the War Widow's Guild of Australia 1945-1985 published
- 1988: Soft Shoe published
- 1996: awarded the Order of Australia "in recognition of service to the arts as the author of children's literature and as an active member of the writer's organisations in Australia."
- 1998: A fuchsia named "Mavis Thorpe Clark"
- 1999: Mavis died, surrounded by her family, soon after her 90th birthday
- 1999: Trust the Dream: The
Autobiography of Mavis Thorpe Clark, Author of 'The Min-Min'
published by the family
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