MS 6608 comprises: 1. A file of about 95 articles and stories by Mary E. Fullerton clipped directly from periodicals in which they first appeared. 2. A small file of documents and clippings. 3. File containing literary manuscripts including works by Fullerton and C.J. Dennis. There is also a small group of letters, including several to Fullerton from Stella Miles Franklin, ca. 1924-1946, and one from George Mack, 1941. 4. A long sequence of family letters written to Fullerton's relatives in Australia, covering the period from 1920s to her death in 1946. 5. Photograph album. 6. 17 monographs including The legacy of Bunyon by Rev. W.Y. Fullerton (London, 1928), inscribed by Mary Fullerton and three books by Mary Fullerton, The Australian bush (1928), The breaking furrow (1921), and Moods and melodies (1908) (2 boxes).
Writer. Mary Eliza Fullerton was born at Glenmaggie, Victoria, in 1868 and was educated at home by her mother and at the local state school. She became involved in the women's suffrage movement of the late 1890s and early 1900s, and published articles on feminist issues. She also joined the Women's Organizing Committee of the Political Labor Council of Victoria and, during World War I, wrote articles on the case against conscription. She also wrote stories, novels and verse, sometimes under pseudonyms or anonymously. Her books include the novels The people of the timber belt (1923) and A juno of the bush (1930), and a study in natural history titled The Australian bush (1928). In 1922 Fullerton travelled to England where she met and befriended Miles Franklin who arranged the publication of Fullerton's verse. Fullerton died in Sussex in 1946.
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