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Entry type: Person
  • Occupation

    Historian, Writer, Writer of Inscription

  • Gender

    Female

  • Birth Date

    1908

  • Death Date

    31st December 1993

Copy specific notes

Alexandra Hasluck was an historian and writer. Born Alexandra Margaret Martin Darker in Perth, Western Australia, she worked as a teacher before her marriage to Paul Hasluck 1932. Active in public and intellectual life, Alexandra Hasluck was the author of numerous historical and biographical studies as well as short stories. She died in 1993.

Source

‘Dame Alexandra Hasluck.’ In The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, edited by William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton and Barry Andrews, 351. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994.

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