Dorothy Cottrell
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Ida Dorothy Ottley Cottrell (16 July 1902 – 29 June 1957) was an Australian writer. Born in Picton, she contracted infantile paralysis as a child and spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair. Cottrell married Walter Mackenzie Cottrell on 23 May 1922.{{Cite web |last=Austlit |title=Dorothy Cottrell {{!}} AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A22539 |access-date=2024-12-04 |website=www.austlit.edu.au |language=en}} Her first novel, The Singing Gold, was published in 1928. She wrote a story Wilderness Orphan (1936) which was the basis for the feature film Orphan of the Wilderness (1936). She lived for a time in the US and also worked as an artist and cartoonist.[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cottrell-ida-dorothy-ottley-5788 Ida Dorothy Ottley Cottrell at Australian Dictionary of Biography]
Writings
- The Singing Gold (1927)
- Earth Battle (1927) (US:
- A Little Chapel of Memory (1932 est) Booklet on Mission Inn, Riverside, CA
- Winks: His Book (1934)
- Wilderness Orphan (1936) - filmed as ''Orphan of the Wilderness (1936)
- The Silent Reefs (1953) - filmed as The Secret of the Purple Reef (1960)
References
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External links
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- [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cottrell-ida-dorothy-ottley-5788 Ida Dorothy Ottley Cottrell at Australian Dictionary of Biography]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120402213902/http://www.usq.edu.au/pmrc/literaryhistory/writers/cottrell Dorothy Cottrell] at Public Memory History Cluster, University of Southern Queensland website
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120406180039/http://www.jcu.edu.au/old_library/Specials/Archives/cottrell.shtml Papers of Dorothy Cottrell] at James Cook University Archives
- [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1072273 Papers of Dorothy Cottrell] at National Library of Australia
- [http://daao.org.au/bio/dorothy-cottrell/ Dorothy Cottrell] at Design and Art Australia Online
- [http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE2768b.htm Dorothy Cottrell] at Australian Women's Register
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Category:20th-century Australian novelists
Category:Australian women novelists
Category:20th-century Australian women writers
Category:20th-century Australian screenwriters
Category:Australian writers with disabilities
Category:Australian wheelchair users
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