Forrest, Mabel

Mabel Forrest
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Name	Forrest, Mabel Gender: F
Birthname	Helena Mabel Checkley Mills
born on	6 March 1872 at 03:30 (= 03:30 AM )
Place	Yandilla, Australia, 27s4955, 151e2053
Timezone	LMT m151e2053 (is local mean time)
Data source	Rectified from approx. time Rodden Rating C Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	15°29' 24°03 Asc. 13°02'

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Biography

Australian writer and journalist, who began writing at an early age but did not publish her first book, The Rose of Forgiveness and other Stories, until 1904.

She became well known as a writer of verse following the publication of her first volume of poems, Alpha Centauri, which appeared in Melbourne in 1909. Her first novel A Bachelor's Wife, was included in the Bookstall series in 1914. The Green Harper (prose and verse) followed in 1915, and Streets and Gardens, a small collection of verse, in 1922. In 1924 The Wild Moth, a novel, was published in London, and was followed by four other novels, Gaming Gods (1926), Hibiscus Heart (1927), Reaping Roses (1928), and White Witches (1929). Poems by M. Forrest, a collection of her verse contributions to Australian, English and American magazines, was published at Sydney in 1927.

In addition to her work in book form, for the last 30 years of her life Forrest poured out a constant stream of verse and short stories for newspapers and magazines. Probably no other woman in Australia ever maintained herself so long by freelance journalism. Her verse is represented in several anthologies. Her novels were perhaps little more than stories written to fulfil the demands of the circulating libraries, but Forrest was an admirable journalist who lived a life that had many misfortunes with great industry, ability and courage.

Forrest died of pneumonia on 18 March 1935 in Brisbane, after a long illness. She was twice married and was survived by a daughter.

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Events

• Death by Disease 18 March 1935 (Pneumonia, age 63)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield notes that in her poem, "When I Was Born," Forrest writes that she was born at night apparently in the early hours before sunrise: "When I was born they might have drawn/ a curtain o'er the pane/ For in the blue sky till the dawn a full/ white moon did reign;/ A large-eyed Venus is the moon clasped round by cloud above,/ She gives to babes a doubtful boon, the gift/ of passionate love. ... When I was born they might have closed the windows of the room,/ Have shut out garden walks enrosed and glossed magnolia bloom;/ Have shut out hints of dewy morn, the pulsing green and blow,/ ... the/ night that I was born." (published in "The Australasian" [Melbourne, Vic.], 9 October 1909, p. 52).

A speculative time of 3:30 a.m. puts Venus on the ascendant.

Categories

• Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Two)

• Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (One daughter)

• Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist

• Vocation : Writers : Fiction (Novelist)

• Vocation : Writers : Magazine/ newsletter

• Vocation : Writers : Poet