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Web - Australia Women biographical entry for Pattie Fotheringhame |
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Web - Australia Women biographical entry for Pattie Fotheringhame |
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NW Australia Women:
http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE2897b.htm |
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S373 |
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Fotheringhame, Pattie (c. 1852 - 1955)
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Editor and Journalist
Born: c. 1852 Scotland. Died: 1955 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Pattie Fotheringhame was Sydney's first female journalist and the pioneer of photo-engraving in Sydney. She was 'discovered' by her brother-in-law, W.H Traille, editor of the Sydney Mail, in 1878 when he heard her telling a story to a group of children. He learned that the story was her own creation and so employed Fotheringhame to write a weekly piece for the paper. Following Traille to the Bulletin she wrote the Woman's Letter as 'Mab' for almost seven years until she married James Fotheringhame.
Fotheringhame bought Young Australia from Louisa Lawson and she continued it for thirty years with her sister-in-law Josephine Fotheringhame. She also owned the weekly Splashes, and edited the monthly paper The Sphere for six years. She also contributed lighter pieces to The Soldier and The Commonwealth Home. At her busiest, she was writing for six newspapers simultaneously
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Career Highlights
Alternative Names:
Lewis Fotheringhame, Pattie (a.k.a.)
Lewis, Pattie (birth name)
Mab (pen name)
Sources used to compile this entry: 'Pattie Fotheringhame', entry in AustLit, http://www.austlit.edu.au.ezproxy.lib.unimelb.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A5cf, [accessed 2007-12-04]. |
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Josephine Fotheringhame
Pattie Lewis |
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