![]() ![]() A biography, To Be Heirs Forever, also used Eliza Shaw as a subject. ![]() Other important works include the saga of the Durack family, Kings in Grass Castles (1959) and its sequel, Sons in the Saddle and a play, Swan River Saga: Life of Early Pioneer Eliza Shaw (1976). ![]() In 1950 she wrote the novel Keep Him My Country. Mary Durack wrote under the name "Virgilia" for The West Australian during 1937–38, a column for women and children in rural areas. The collaboration was to produce a number of children's books: Chunuma in 1936 Son of Djaro and the Way of the Whirlwind in 1940–1941 The Magic Trumpet in 1946 and To Ride a Fine Horse (1963). The text in All About: The Story of a Black Community on Argyle Station was supplied by Mary and the illustrations were by Elizabeth. ![]() In 1935 Mary and her sister, Elizabeth, were to publish their first collaboration. The story of her family's history, beginning with the mid-19th century migration from Ireland, is presented by Durack in Kings in Grass Castles, and its sequel, Sons in the Saddle. The Durack family were pioneers in the settlement of the area by Europeans. Mary Durack, born in Adelaide, South Australia, to Michael Patrick Durack (1865–1950) and Bessie Durack (née Johnstone), and her siblings lived at the remote Argyle Downs and Ivanhoe cattle stations in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. ![]()
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