Frances Fitzgerald Frances Fitzgerald i(A26233 works by) (birth name: Frances Elmes) (a.k.a. Frances Fitzgerald Elmes; Big Fran; Frances Fawkner; F. F. Elmes)
Also writes as: Mars ; A. Leo Watts ; S. O. S. ; F. F.
Born: Established: 23 Apr 1867 Somerset,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 1919 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
Gender: Female
Expatriate assertion Departed from Australia: 1905
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BiographyHistory

Frances Fitzgerald Elmes, the daughter of a medical practitioner, spent her childhood in Berwick, Vic. She worked as a journalist in Melbourne in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An early feminist, she was the author of the performed, but unpublished, play 'The New Woman' [189-?] and of The Melbourne Cookery Book [190-?]. She went to London in 1905 and worked as a journalist on Charles Chomley's (q.v.) British Australasian. Her relationship with Chomley was depicted in a fictional guise by Chomley's nephew Martin Boyd (q.v.) in his Langton novels.

Frances Fitzgerald Elmes died in London in 1919, a victim of the influenza epidemic.

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