Dorothea Mackellar
Dorothea Mackellar was born on July 1, 1885. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Dorothea Mackellar
Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar (1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968) was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem "My Country" is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains, / Of ragged mountain ranges, / Of droughts and flooding rains."