Mary Eliza Fullerton was an Australian writer.

Fullerton was born in Glenmaggie, Victoria

Glenmaggie, Victoria

Glenmaggie is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the shores of Lake Glenmaggie, in the Shire of Wellington. At the 2006 census, Glenmaggie and the surrounding area had a population of 405....

, was educated at home by her mother and at the local state school. After leaving school she stayed on her parents property, until she moved to Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

 in her early twenties. She was active in the women's suffrage

Women's suffrage

Women's suffrage or woman suffrage is the right of women to vote and to run for office. The expression is also used for the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending these rights to women and without any restrictions or qualifications such as property ownership, payment of tax, or...

 movement from the 1890s and early 1900s. During World War I

World War I

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 she wrote articles on feminist

Feminism

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 issues and arguing against conscription

Conscription

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 for Victorian

Victoria (Australia)

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 publications. She visited England in 1912 and moved there in 1922.

She wrote stories, articles and verse for magazines and periodicals, sometimes under the pseudonym Alpenstock. She wrote three novels between 1921 and 1925 under her own name, but fearing prejudice against her as a woman without a university education, publication of her two last works in verse, Moles do so little with their privacy and The wonder and the apple, were published under the pseudonym E. Their publication was arranged by her friend Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published in 1901...

. Her identity as their author was revealed after her death.

Works

• Moods and melodies (1908)
• The breaking furrow (1921)
• Bark house days (1921)
• Two women (1923)
• The people of the timber belt (1925)
• A Juno of the bush (1930)
• Moles do so little with their privacy (1942)
• The wonder and the apple (1946)