Kathleen MonypennyKathleen Monypennyi(A6593 works by)
(a.k.a.
Kathleen Margaret Monypenny; Kathleen E. M. Monypenny)
Born:Established: Jul 1894Hay,Balranald - Hay area,Far South West NSW,New South Wales,;Died:Ceased:6 Dec 1971
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Kathleen Monypenny was educated in England from an early age, returning to Australia as a young woman. She spent most of her working life as a librarian in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, although she returned to England during World War II to help care for refugee children.
Kathleen Monypenny also published From Whaling Station to Sheep Run : Beginnings in New Zealand (1934), and wrote words for the song Noon (music by Dulcie Holland, 1936). With Dora Wilcox she produced a series of Australian Rhyme Sheets.
