Lilian Wooster Greaves

Greaves was born in Ballarat, Victoria,{{Cite news |date=26 June 1915 |title=Ladies' Letter |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1073681934 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-30 |work=The Advocate |location=Melbourne, Australia |pages=33}} where her father, William H. Wooster,{{Cite news |date=26 February 1914 |title=Publications Received: "Roses in Rain" and Other Poems (by Lillian Wooster Greaves) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1116717834 |url-access=subscription |access-date=29 December 2024 |work=Ballarat Star |pages=3 |quote=The work is dedicated to W. H. Wooster, the father of the authoress}}{{Cite news |date=25 October 1921 |title=Personal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1117572335 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-30 |work=The Ballarat Star |pages=1}} was lecturer of botany at the Federation University Australia.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58242941 |title=Mrs. Lilian Wooster Greaves. |newspaper=Sunday Times (Perth, Western Australia) |location=Perth, WA |date=6 June 1926 |access-date=11 October 2012 |page=1 Section: Fourth Section |via=National Library of Australia}} She married William John Greaves in February 1893 in Ballarat,{{Cite web |date=1893 |title=Marriage Registration: Wm Jno Greaves and Lily Wooster |url=https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/search-your-family-history |access-date=2024-12-30 |website=Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria |id=Reg No 1178/1893}}{{Cite news |date=1893-02-06 |title=SOCIAL NOTES. |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/209782354 |access-date=2024-12-30 |work=Ballarat Star |pages=1 |quote=On the 2nd inst. Miss Lily Wooster, daughter of Mr W. H. Wooster, of Humffray street, Ballarat East, was married to Mr William John Greaves, son of Mr J. Greaves of Victoria street, Ballarat East}} and their children Mabel and Grace were born in Victoria and son Archibald in Sydney.Birth registration for Archibald W. Greaves, Registration Number 9281/1900, District of Sydney, New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. The family arrived in Western Australia on {{ship|RMS|Orizaba}} in 1904.{{citation |url=https://slwa.wa.gov.au/pdf/mn/mn1501_2000/mn1936.pdf |access-date=2020-01-14 |title=Greaves, Lilian Wooster, 1869-1956 |publisher=State Library of Western Australia}} Daughters ElsieBirth registration for Elsie Blanche Greaves, Registration Number 5476/1905, Perth, Western Australia, WA Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. and RoseBirth registration for Rosemary Elizabeth Greaves, Cottesloe, Registration Number 1600309/1907, Registration District of Claremont, Western Australia Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. were born in the following three years in Perth and Cottesloe.

After the family moved to Western Australia, they lived at different stages in Wongan Hills, Mundaring, Cottesloe, and Leederville during the First World War. The last place of residence was in Como.

Greeves was a member of the Women Writers Club and representative of the Institute of British Poetry in Western Australia.{{Citation | last=Grono | first=William | title=Margins : a west coast selection of poetry, 1829-1988 | year=1988 | publication-date=1988 | publisher=Fremantle Arts Centre Press | isbn=978-0-949206-37-4 }} – short biographical notes on page 335 Her poetry was regularly published in local newspapers and magazines.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37480490 |title=New Thoughts. |newspaper=Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 – 1954) |location=Perth, WA |date=21 April 1921 |access-date=11 October 2012 |page=31 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{Citation | last=James |first=Ruth Marchant | title=Notes on Lilian Wooster Greaves | publication-date=1984 | publisher=Ruth Marchant James] | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/159327623 | access-date=11 October 2012 }} In 1915, she won first prize in The Bookman's annual poetry competition.{{Cite news |date=16 September 1915 |title=Women's War |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1075428937 |access-date=30 December 2024 |work=The Bendigo Advertiser |pages=7}}

During the First World War she wrote patriotic verses and songs.{{Citation | last1=Beetham | first1=Amy Melville | last2=Greaves | first2=Lilian Wooster | title=Hang on, Australia! | publication-date=1915 | publisher=S.T. Upham | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/30470727 | access-date=11 October 2012 }}{{Citation | last1=Hancey | first1=Jessie | last2=Greaves | first2=Lilian Wooster | title=Australia beloved | publication-date=1900 | publisher=Austral Music Pub. Co | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/30569820 | access-date=11 October 2012 }}{{Citation | last1=Furlong |first1=W. R | last2=Greaves |first2=Lilian Wooster | title=Let us wear white | publication-date=1920 | publisher=W.R. Furlong | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34441997 | access-date=11 October 2012 }}{{Citation | last1=Greaves | first=Lilian Wooster | title=The road to Glory : a patriotic souvenir from Western Australia | publication-date=1915 | publisher=S.T. Upham | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/24915393 | access-date=11 October 2012 }}The Road to glory reviewed – {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37592687 |title=The Road to Glory. |newspaper=Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 – 1954) |location=Perth, WA |date=3 December 1915 |access-date=11 October 2012 |page=45 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Some post war poetry was published in commemoration of Anzac Day.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37653872 |title=Remembrance. |newspaper=Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 – 1954) |location=Perth, WA |date=22 April 1926 |access-date=11 October 2012 |page=31 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Her papers are kept in the private archives of the State Library of Western Australia's Battye Library .{{Citation | last1=Greaves |first=Lilian Wooster | title=Papers | publication-date=1894 | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34341073 | access-date=11 October 2012 }}

• {{Citation | last=Greaves |first=Lilian Wooster | title=Poems by Lilian (an Australian poetess) | publication-date=1903 | publisher=G. Baker Walker | edition=1st | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12411919 | access-date=11 October 2012 }}
• {{Citation | last=Greaves |first=Lilian Wooster | title=The two doves and other poems | publication-date=1906 | publisher=Upham & Williams | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/24912207 | access-date=11 October 2012 }}
• {{Citation | last=Greaves |first=Lilian Wooster | title=Roses in rain : and other poems | publication-date=1910 | publisher=The Swan Express | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/14542342 | access-date=11 October 2012 }} – reprinted in 1914
• {{cite Wikisource |last=Greaves |first=Lilian Wooster | title=Wongan Way | publication-date=1927 | publisher=Imperial Printing Company |location=Perth, Western Australia }} – also in an illustrated edition, combined with a booklet about wildflowers – {{Citation | last=Greaves |first=Lilian Wooster | title=Wongan way | publication-date=1927 | publisher=Imperial Printing | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18239334 | access-date=11 October 2012 }} (separate edition as:{{Citation | last=Greaves |first=Lilian Wooster | title=West Australian wild flowers | publication-date=1927 | publisher=Imperial Printing | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18239369 | access-date=11 October 2012 }}

• 1915 – Women's War (Bendigo Advertiser, Victoria)
• 1915 – Roses in Rain (The Advocate, Melbourne, Australia)
• 1916 – Peace or War{{Cite journal |date=4 May 1916 |title=Songs of the War: Peace or War? |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/997579417 |journal=The Watchman|pages=3 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-31}} (The Watchman, Sydney, Australia)
• 1920 – Where love dwells{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article211881051 |title=The Poet's Corner. |newspaper=Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette |volume=III |issue=668 |location=Western Australia |date=8 July 1920 |accessdate=13 February 2021 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• 1921 – New Thoughts{{Cite news |date=1921-04-21 |title=NEW THOUGHTS. |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/37480490 |access-date=2024-12-31 |work=Western Mail |location=Perth, Western Australia}} (Western Mail, Perth, Western Australia)
• 1925 – Hope{{Cite news |date=1925-03-12 |title=ORIGINAL VERSE. |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/37821433?searchTerm=Lilian%20Wooster%20Greaves |access-date=2024-12-31 |work=Western Mail |location=Perth, Western Australia}} (Western Mail, Perth, Western Australia)
• 1926 – England{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37642358 |title=Original Verse. |newspaper=Western Mail |volume=XLI |issue=2,088 |location=Western Australia |date=4 February 1926 |accessdate=13 February 2021 |page=31 |via=National Library of Australia}} (Western Mail, Perth, Western Australia)
• 1926 – Remembrance{{Cite news |date=22 April 1926 |title=REMEMBRANCE. |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/37653872 |access-date=2024-12-30 |work=Western Mail |location=Perth, Western Australia |pages=29}} (Western Mail, Perth, Western Australia)
• 1926 – How the Wild Flowers Came{{Cite news |date=1926-11-20 |title=HOW THE WHO FLOWERS CAME. |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/69767780 |access-date=2024-12-31 |work=Capricornian |location=Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia |pages=6}} (The Capricornian, Rockhampton, Queensland)
• 1943 – Birds at Wongan Hills{{Cite news |date=27 February 1943 |title=An Australian Writer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/981580446 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-30 |work=The Methodist |pages=7}} (The Methodist, Sydney, Australia)

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