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Maie Casey was a writer and artist. Born Ethel Marian Sumner Ryan, she married R.G. Casey June 1926. A woman of bohemian sensibilities, she befriended Australian modernists and wrote poetry, biography, reminiscences and historical studies. Ambitious for her husband’s political career, she was dubbed ‘Lady Macbeth’ by Menzies.

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Langmore, Diane. Casey, Ethel Marian (Maie) (1891-1983), Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Published in hard copy 2007, accessed online 23 September 2012.

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